Mostly around here (NW AZ) I've been stung by the local large black ants. All rights reserved. I had 7 days of antibiotics and pain medicines. Assuming you're not allergic to fire ants, expect a sting he describes as “sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Civil Supervisor Vacancy, California sea life 1, tourist 0; go ray!
My son got stung by a stingray in Jupiter, Florida.
Next 30 minutes, I had 10 level pain, next 1.5 hour: 9 to 6 pain. He went to ER, soaked in hot water, and got X-ray.
The hot water soak for 1.5 hours helped immensely with the pain that was shooting from my foot up my leg, and after letting it bleed some, pressure stopped it right away. Two weeks later, I had a lot of itchiness and burning return as a delayed histamine reaction. I swam to the shore fast and pulled a 4 inch long white spine while blood gushed out. Great post Shelley. The swelling diminished on my foot, but was still mild on my middle toe. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.”, The good news?
My foot was red and swollen for a week, then started to get better, then it blew up red and hot. No one ever told me about the 'sting ray shuffle,' so a warm low-tide morning near Panama Beach, Costa Rica I stepped on one. On Aruba boat snorkel trip, a stingray hit outside my left ankle.
The pain was excruciating.
4.0 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. All Rights Reserved.
my advice for anyone who gets stung is breath deeply, don't panic, put ice on it for extended periods of time, elevate the spot where stung if possible, and go to a hospital to get some real painkillers instead of the wimpy household advil.
A well-watered lawn and garden can quickly become home to a number of burrowing pests. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.”, Paper wasps are another common species, and these territorial pests’ gray, honeycomb-like nests, can pop up under eaves or around porch areas in the summer months. The podiatrist debrided top layer of wound as necrotic. Got a lift to the lifeguard’s house where my foot was soaked in hot water for about an hour.
The pain for the first hour was tolerable and even more so, when it was in the hot water. 2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. I left the dinghy at the boat ramp and hobbled to my vehicle, drove to the nearest hospital and was admitted. Check out some of his papers here: Schmidt, J. O. Justin Schmidt's colourful descriptions include how the sting … I managed to walk home and took a couple of Norco 5, which helped with the ride to the emergency room.