what happens if you can't remove the wasp stinger?

Answer 1

Do NOT use tweezers, as the pressure from the tweezers presses more bee venom from the stinger into your body. Take your fingernail, or the back side of a knife, and *scrape* the stinger out of your skin gently. Apply just enough pressure to get the stinger out, not enough to scratch or break the skin though.

If this has happened in the last few minutes, and you have a rubber snake bite kit, put one of the rubber suckers on the bee sting. It will pull out some of the bee venom and help reduce swelling.

Answer 2

Wasp Stinger Removal

Answer 3

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Fist of if it got stuck it's not likely to be a wasp stinger. Honey bee's lose their stinger. Your first mistake was in removing it with your fingers. What happens when a honey bee stings is that it pulls away leaving the stinger in you (barbed) and the stinging sack which keeps pumping. If you pull it out with you finger guess what happens. You pump the rest of the poison in you. Best way to remove one is with the edge of a credit card or drivers license and scrape it off. You can use the back of a knife or something flat. Just make sure to scrape it off and not pull it. Best thing to help it is cold to keep the swelling down and it will help with the pain. They make some over the counter products to help with the pain and the sell suction kits which this late in the game will do no good. If you get hives or the swelling starts to get bad or the pain increases you may want to see a doctor. Especially if you start to have trouble breathing or you tongue starts to fell thick or you throat swells. That is a 911 call. Otherwise you will do fine. I've never heard of anybody getting an infection from the initial sting maybe if there were complications but not just the sting.

Answer 4

How To Remove Stinger

Answer 5

Well wasps don't loose their stinger, so if you have a stinger in you its most likely a bee. The easiest way to remove a bee stinger is to scrape your skin with the edge of a credit card.

Answer 6

I was always told to use a credit card to scrape the stinger out. There should not be a stinger if it was a wasp though. Try using bactine or solarcaine to ease the stinging. Also, a baking soda mask works to draw out the venom and relieve the stinging. Just mix enough water into the baking soda to make it stick together, spread on the sting and allow to dry. It will flake off eventually, but it does help tremendously.

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what happens if you can't remove the wasp stinger?

Answer 8

Wasps do not lose their stinger. They continue to sting and they are like the Hornet and the Yellow Jacket where they continously stinging. They are not like the bee where the bee will lose their stinger and later they die.

Answer 9

If it's in you it's a bee sting not wasp.

Wasp stings come out, bee stings have a barb on them that mean they stay in.

To remove use tweezers at the base of the sting, not the top as that the poison sac is still attached

Answer 10

Well...nothing happens. The pain will just last for longer. Eventually, the stinger will come out by itself, so no worries!!!