Bee sting in most situations is life threatening. Spectrum of bee sting ranges from mild local reaction to death. The literature regarding the bee sting disease from India is sparse. The rare manifestations of the disease include encephalitis, polyneuritis, myocardial infarction, pulmonary edema, bleeding manifestations, and renal failure. Bee sting infections are rare and no field studies have...

Here we report the cases of five patients with a late onset of acute urticaria after a bee sting. The ages of the five Japanese patients ranged from 33 to 86 years (median: 61). All patients had no history of an allergic reaction to bee stings. The onset of urticaria was 6-14 days (median: 10) after a bee sting. Although four of the patients did not describe experiencing a bee sting at their pr...

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,...

468 Urticarial Vasculitis After Bee-sting Therapy June-Hyuk Lee, Sung Woo Park, An-Soo Jang, DoJin Kim, and ChoonSik Park. Respiratory and allergy, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, South Korea; Division of Respiratory and Allergy Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, College of Medicine, Bucheon, South Korea. Background: Bee-sting therapy is one of the oriental traditi...

dear editor:   sir, the recent published case report on corneal bee sting by sedaghat et al is very interesting.1 sedaghat et al concluded that “bee sting can lead to serious visual impairment despite adequate medical and surgical approaches.1” indeed, the arthropod sting on cornea is usually serious and difficult-to-manage case. based on the experience on another similar situation, corneal was...

468 Urticarial Vasculitis After Bee-sting Therapy June-Hyuk Lee, Sung Woo Park, An-Soo Jang, DoJin Kim, and ChoonSik Park. Respiratory and allergy, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, South Korea; Division of Respiratory and Allergy Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, College of Medicine, Bucheon, South Korea. Background: Bee-sting therapy is one of the oriental traditi...

468 Urticarial Vasculitis After Bee-sting Therapy June-Hyuk Lee, Sung Woo Park, An-Soo Jang, DoJin Kim, and ChoonSik Park. Respiratory and allergy, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, South Korea; Division of Respiratory and Allergy Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, College of Medicine, Bucheon, South Korea. Background: Bee-sting therapy is one of the oriental traditi...

Acute Kidney Injury in children following bee sting envenomation is rare and survival is hinged on early recognition and prompt appropriate management. This report is aimed at raising awareness among healthcare workers, of one of the systemic effects of massive bee sting and the need to develop sting treatment protocol. A three year old preschooler was attacked by a swarm of bees, receiving ove...

468 Urticarial Vasculitis After Bee-sting Therapy June-Hyuk Lee, Sung Woo Park, An-Soo Jang, DoJin Kim, and ChoonSik Park. Respiratory and allergy, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, South Korea; Division of Respiratory and Allergy Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, College of Medicine, Bucheon, South Korea. Background: Bee-sting therapy is one of the oriental traditi...

A wide variety of neurological syndromes have been described following hymenoptera sting like encephalopathy, myeloradiculopathy, optic neuropathy, seizures, parkinsonism, exacerbation of multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, encephalomyelopolyradiculoneuritis and obsessive compulsive behaviour. While petechial haemorrhages, cerebral edema, meningeal hyperemia and intraventricular haemorrhage ...