bee stings are commonly encountered worldwide. various manifestations after bee sting have been described including local reactions which are common, systemic responses such as anaphylaxis, diffuse intravascular coagulation and hemolysis. we report a case of a 74-year-old man who developed neurologic deficit 5 hours after bee stings, which was confirmed to be left frontal infarction on brain ct...

BACKGROUND Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a hematological disorder with an isolated decrease in number of circulating platelets. Bee venom therapy (BVT) is a form of alternative medicine. It is still being practiced in the Middle East and other parts of Asia. In BVT, acupuncture points are used to inject diluted bee venom into the body. The pharmacological basis behind BVT is not fully unders...

Bee stings can cause severe adverse reactions, leading to anaphylaxis, cardiovascular collapse, and death. In some cases, bee venom also induces disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). However, to our knowledge, there has been no fatal case of intravascular coagulation accompanied by anaphylaxis caused by bee sting acupuncture. Here, we report a fatal case of a 65-year-old woman with DIC,...

Role of bee Venom Acupuncture in improving pain and life quality Egyptian Chronic Low Back Pain patients Aliaa El Gendy, Maha M. Saber, Eitedal Daoud, Khaled G. Abdel-Wahhab, Eman Abd el-Rahman, Ahmed Hegazi

BACKGROUND Treatment failure during venom immunotherapy (VIT) may be associated with a variety of risk factors. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to evaluate the association of baseline serum tryptase concentration (BTC) and of other parameters with the frequency of VIT failure during the maintenance phase. METHODS In this observational prospective multicenter study, we followed 357 patients with estab...

The aim of the study was to the development of the method for the separation, identification and determination quantitatively of the major constituents of honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) venom by high performance liquid chromatography (HLPC) and determination of the chemical composition of the domestic product by running routine tests. In the study to develop an HPLC method to assay the major veno...

BACKGROUND Although rapid venom immunotherapy (VIT) protocols have been shown to be safe and effective, this issue has not yet been clarified in Turkey. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the side effects of rush VIT as well as early clinical and immunological responses in patients with a venom allergy. METHODS Eighteen patients who had a history of severe systemic reactions af...

INTRODUCTION Venom immunotherapy (VIT) is recommended as the first-line treatment for patients allergic to Hymenoptera venom. AIM To analyze the safety and efficacy of VIT in a real life setting. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred and eighty patients undergoing VIT were studied to evaluate the safety, efficacy, incidence and nature of symptoms after field stings and adverse reactions to VIT. ...

BACKGROUND Bee sting therapy is increasingly used to treat patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the belief that it can stabilize or ameliorate the disease. However, there are no clinical studies to justify its use. METHODS In a randomized, crossover study, we assigned 26 patients with relapsing-remitting or relapsing secondary progressive MS to 24 weeks of medically supervised bee sting t...