Wasp and Bee Stings

Avoidance of bee and wasp stings: an entomological perspective.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Clinicians and researchers in allergy and immunology are often unaware of aspects of stinging insect biology that would be of practical interest to their patients. This review discusses entomological literature pertaining to avoidance of bee and wasp stings, with emphasis on risk factors associated with provoking individual foragers versus disturbing colonies and preventive me...

Bee and wasp stings of the eye. Retained intralenticular wasp sting: A case report.

Two different stages should be considered in the management of bee and wasp stings to the eye. The first is the acute stage of activity of the specific insect venom on the structures the eye. The reaction of the eye to the particular insult is considered here in regard to the anterior and posterior segments of the eye. The second stage is that of the retained intraocular foreign body, the inert...

Wasp stings with multisystem dysfunction.

The insect order of Hymenoptera includes bees, hornets, wasps and fire-ants. Their stings are not usually life threatening, causing mainly local reactions and rarely anaphylaxis. This is a report of an 18 month old child who survived after an unusually severe envenomation, resulting in encephalopathy, hypertension, coagulopathy, intra-vascular hemolysis, hepatic and renal failure, following mul...

Bee and wasp stings in Deniyaya; a series of 322 cases.

OBJECTIVES To describe wasp and bee species that sting humans, analyse risk factors and clinical features. METHODS A prospective observational study was conducted on patients presenting to Base Hospital Deniyaya with suspected bee and wasp stings from 2011 to 2013. Data were gathered using a questionnaire and specimens of offending insects collected for identification. When the insect specime...

Move to raise awareness of anaphylaxis caused by bee and wasp stings.