Yellowjacket bite; oh sooo painful...
 

Sorry for my ignorance, but what's a Yellowjacket? Is it a bee or a wasp type insect?

Thank you.

Here's some common treatments for other wasp stings. Maybe one might work for you.

* Ice applications
* Make a paste of Baking Soda and water and spread over sting
* Meat Tenderizer....Make a paste with a few drops of water to a teaspoon of meat tenderizer and quickly apply to the sting (this can reduce the pain and inflammation)
* Ammonia Solution--Apply a 1-2% percent solution, three or four times daily.
* Oral Antihistamines
* Topical Steroids (Cortaid, Dermolate, Lanacort, etc.)

If you have a severe reaction then medical intervention will probably be necessary.

Koala77
 

i dont know about MS but i too as a mail man have been bit by bees and no problem but yellow jackets are nasty and do hurt

Owweee!!!

I don't know if it was yellowjackets, but my dad got stung yesterday a few times on his hand and once on his nose. (They weren't honeybees).

We applied mud a couple of times on his hand, and it never did swell up. When I called later to ask him about it, he'd forgotten about it, so it worked for him.

BUT, he doesn't have MS -- I do.

I don't know if its supposed to be worse for MSers, or if you just got some really nasty stings.

Sorry about that!

Hey Frank, didja bite them back? :D

0357 someone on here started a thread a bout mosiquto bites an most of us all said same thing they are worse then normal and much more irritating, so maybe the ms is a cause of this..i do hope it gets to feeling better real soon

Twink i stepped on a yellow jacket nest one day and got 9 bites my arm swelled up so badly i had to go to ER, glad dad is doing fine Twink, and mud is the best, used it on my kids too

I stepped on one once and the pain was unbelievably bad. I hope you'll feel better soon.