[Closed] Wasp stings

Not the most PC solution these days but a French uncle taught me this. As soon as you are stung hold a lit cigarette as close as you can to the puncture without touching the skin and hold it as long as you can bear. The theory is that the heat breaks down the injected chemical and reduces the effectiveness.

I can't claim that it's correct but I've done it twice and after the sting certainly wasn't as painful longer term as previous stings had been

I found Piriton (chlorphenamine maleate) syrup helped loads with the reaction when I got stung recently. Took a few days for the swelling of my leg to go down though.

Got stung by multiple wasps a few weeks ago after disturbing a nest when trying to open a gate (nest was in the wooden gate post). They got me around my bare ankle and it subsequently became hugely swollen for at least a week! Not a lot seemed to help but sudocrem helped with the itching.

Got stung once by a wasp while travelling so a local who was next to me just made a little bit of mud with some water and soil and stuck that on. Seemed to work which was a little bizarre to me. Looking it up the theory seems to be that it dries and draws the venom out so it may not work in Scotland 🙂

Anybody suffered a delayed reaction to a wasp sting? I was stung last Tuesday just below my cheekbone and apart from the initial pain it was fine but a week later my face started to swell up. Couldn't think of anything else that would have caused it.

smartay - Member
Whats your cure apart from burning nest

😯 Sorry - nuke the nest!! Blowtorch 'em??

I found something on the web about destroying wasps' nests. It said: "before tackling a wasps' nest, check that your route of escape from the garden is clear!"

Got stung for the first time ever last weekend.

Holy jeebus!!! I fall asleep when I'm getting tattooed but this pain was off the chart. Quite embarrassing thrashing around in a public park with a wasp stuck in my ankle 😳

I got stung on neck and stomach this summer; the secret seems to be to not touch/squeeze/itch it for as long as possible ... Easier said than done! But soon as you start touching it ... They just swell & itch even more!!

Got one caught inside a road jersey once on a fast down hill riding lejog.

How I didn't crash my tits off, I have no idea.

Stung this week by Asian Hornet the wife also, really nasty aggressive creatures. here in France you can by a spray with a 6 meter range its like a fire extinguisher and really effective take the nest out after dark or really early in the morning when they are cold and slow. wear lots of clothing googles and hat.

+1 for antihistamine.

My puppy decided it was a great idea to try and eat a wasp, jusrt as we walked in from a funeral. £155 for emergency vet. Little beggar.

[i]Got stung for the first time ever last weekend.[/i]

Me too! Must've got lucky cos it didn't hurt at all, but it itched for 3 days after. Was by the knuckle on my thumb as I picked the "what's this in my hair?" little bastard off my head.
My Afterbite sting cream that I use on bites had no effect on the itching.

My 5 year old got one last weekend. Antihistamine and ice on the sting seemed to work. Sounds like she handled it better than some on here 😉

I was told many years ago by an army medic to use ice for all insect bites/stings that swell up.

I hate wasps.

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Last mile on this mornings ride, and I suffered a wasp sting under my helmet strap just in front of my ear. From the inside my head feels floaty big on that side, but I am assured it still looks the correct size from the outside.

Haven't been stung for many, many years, however, when I was only 9 yrs old I disturbed a nest and was stung 27 times! A cold bath seemed to do the job and eased the stings.

Had a wasp get caught under a pushed-up shirt sleeve while hammering down a steep hill in France, bugger stung me multiple times in the crook of my elbow before I could safely take my hand off the bars to shake it out of my sleeve.
Hurt like hell, and ached for weeks afterwards!
Had no available remedy, so just had to MTFU.

I got stung a couple of weeks ago on my head - a wasp went through the vent on my helmet on a road ride. I heard the buzzing and hoped it was a fly, until the searing pain on my head, the bastard. As soon as I got my helmet off he paid with his life! And i had a sore head for several days. Evil creatures of doom and misery

It must be down to where you get stung.

A few weeks ago I felt a irritation just below my knee which I reached down and it was a wasp stinging my leg and then my finger.

After about ten minutes of pulsating the pain went away as was fine after. I didn't even realise it was a wasp until I saw it and I'm by no means a hard man or anything

Got one stuck in my glove last weekend. 5 stings before i got the ****er. Nothing all week and last night it swelled up and is the itchiest thing in history. There's hunners of the wee bstards about right now.

Th OH got stung - through jeans - right on the bell end. For some reason, he seems to have developed a mild phobia of wasps since then. Can't imagine why...

luffy105 - Member

Not the most PC solution these days but a French uncle taught me this. As soon as you are stung hold a lit cigarette as close as you can to the puncture without touching the skin and hold it as long as you can bear. The theory is that the heat breaks down the injected chemical and reduces the effectiveness.

I can't claim that it's correct but I've done it twice and after the sting certainly wasn't as painful longer term as previous stings had been

Maybe true, you do something similar with weaver fish 'wounds'

I had one take a dip in my cider this evening. When it got itself out , it was walking round slow enough to punch it's face in with a used nappy I happened to have in my hand at the time . That'll learn him

I got stung a couple of weeks ago by a hornet whilst in bed in France.

Right on my ball Bag!!

I still have a mark but the pain and swelling has gone away now. Freakin thing was massive. The hornet was quite big as well!! 😀

Got stung on the back by a normal wasp as well but paled into insignificance after the first one.

Got one caught inside a road jersey once on a fast down hill

Hurt for a day or so and then itched, like a fresh nettle sting for a week afterwards.

am currently living less than 30yrds from thousands of the stripey socialists.

Every other year the woolly aphids come up on to the willow trunks and boughs in huge colonies and the wasps gather to feed on the honeydew they produce.

However this makes the wasps stupid drunk (as opposed to glaswegian drunk) and they really arent up for a fight. They bimble around in a tipsy fashion before crashing into a tree and expiring on the floor. Even the hornets are docile after a sherry or two. Cant remember the last time I got stung by a blighter.

Riding on my motorcycle one day, one got inside my jacket and stung me multiple times across my stomach, all at 50 mph, how I didn't end up in a ditch is more down to luck than anything.

Do it at night time,

Get a large metal bucket, fill it with something that will burn with a big flame, attached the nest, wasps will fly into the fire and die. once you are happy they have all died, spray the nest.

They're utter arses this year. I've had to have two nest removed from
My house and garden... The second of which I unwittingly disturbed while precariously balanced on the side of my fish pond. My hand came up like a balloon thanks to the multiple arse thrusts they bestowed upon me.

A fortnight after that, was on a local downhill section at around 30mph when a wasp lodges between my helmet strap and face- turned up to work the next day looking like I'd been on the end of a right hander. And trying to brake, remove a helmet and navigate trail features is not recommended.

A week later I pulled a sock on - to get a gradual build up of
Pain. Not a wasp this time.... But a spider. One of those false widow bastards. This was way worse than the wasp... My foot developed a crater that wouldn't repair. Ended up at the doctors who prescribed some steroid cream. 6 weeks later I've got a scar about 1cm in diameter and a further red area about 3cm in diameter around that.

I'm done with summer!

And again! Fast rocky decent, and a stripy ball of anger decided to attack my arm. He was flailing around, attached to me via his arse. I seriously wanted to squash him but thought that might pump more spite and vitriol into my precious body, so I settled for a flick and expletives instead.

haha, got stung on 2 fingers yeaterday. picked a carrier bag up off the kitchen floor. wast must have been inside. got me on 2 fingers.

waspeze spray, a piriton tablet and a paracetamol and a ibuprofen, which i am taking already for my ankle.
both fingers ached a bit and were a bit stiff, but back to normal this morning.

You can buy an insectaside spray from country stores that treats nests. It sprays about 3m and forms a foam dome over the next hole. It seems to slowly kill the burgers. Early morning/large evening is best as said above.
Either that or petrol and a match but make sure you film it!

My 3 year old got stung yesterday for the first time. There was only about 5 minutes of tears

We put some after bite on it and after half an hour of watching frozen she was fine.

No real swelling this morning either.