A 24-year-old male presented to our emergency department 2 h after being stung in the eye by a bee while riding a motorcycle. He had severe pain and photophobia. Slit-lamp examination showed conjunctival hyperaemia with an embedded bee stinger in deep stroma, 2 mm from of the centre of the right eye (OD) cornea. The stinger did not penetrate into the anterior chamber. Visual acuity was 3/10. Th...

Current guidelines for venom immunotherapy suggest that immunotherapy should be performed only in patients with IgE mediated systemic reactions. However, opinions on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with systemic reactions in the absence of IgE are quite varied. We present a patient with a history of atypical systemic reactions after a bee sting. Skin tests and specific IgE for bee venom...

Introduction In 2000 the World Health Organization reported that in the USA there were 54 deaths attributed to bee stings from a population of 281 million. Only 0.4% of the population is allergic to stings. First line treatment of stings is Epinephrine best delivered when anaphylactic symptoms are first noted. In the spring of 2012 two males were stung in Windsor Essex County resulting cardiac ...

effects in bee-venom-treated patients and in those with rapid dose increase. Methods: This report describes the first case of a patient in the literature with Jessner’s Lymphocytic infiltration as a side effect of venom immunotherapy. This is a chronic, benign, T cell pseudolymphoma characterized by the occurrence of recurrent, asymptomatic, smooth, erythematous, non-scaling papules or plaques....

effects in bee-venom-treated patients and in those with rapid dose increase. Methods: This report describes the first case of a patient in the literature with Jessner’s Lymphocytic infiltration as a side effect of venom immunotherapy. This is a chronic, benign, T cell pseudolymphoma characterized by the occurrence of recurrent, asymptomatic, smooth, erythematous, non-scaling papules or plaques....

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Different clinical behaviors have been identified in patients allergic to bee venom. Compound-resolved diagnosis could be an appropriate tool for investigating these differences. The aims of this study were to analyze whether specific IgE to Api m 4 (sIgE-Api m 4) can identify a particular kind of bee venom allergy and to describe response to bee venom immunotherapy (bV...

We describe two patients with claw hand as a result of a bee sting. It is likely that this was caused by the apamin in the sting which has an effect on the upper limb, at the spinal cord and on the peripheral nerves. It is important to recognise that the claw hand is not owing to compartment syndrome. Both patients were treated conservatively with full resolution within 48 hours, without any la...

The aim of this study was to explore the serum peptide profiles from honeybee stung and non-stung individuals. Two groups of serum samples obtained from 27 beekeepers were included in our study. The first group of samples was collected within 3 h after a bee sting (stung beekeepers), and the samples were collected from the same person a second time after at least six weeks after the last bee st...

BACKGROUND Insect sting reactions are frequently reported, but population studies documenting the frequency and the relation to IgE-sensitization and serum tryptase are scarce. METHODS Questionnaire data and results from measurements of specific IgE against venom, major allergens and cross-reacting carbohydrate determinants (CCDs) were collected from 2,090 adult participants in a cross-sectio...

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...