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Question: can someone give me some information on bee stings, like a short description, some sings and symptons and immeidate care/treatment
and some of the same information on strokes please
help me :)


Answers: can someone give me some information on bee stings, like a short description, some sings and symptons and immeidate care/treatment
and some of the same information on strokes please
help me :)

A bee has a stinger on its tail end and the stinger has what looks like a little pouch on it. In that pouch is the venom which gets put into your body the longer you leave the stinger in. You should get the stinger out as soon as you can. You will see swelling but you can reduce this by icing it. Meat tenderizer mixed with a bit of water spread over the sting helps with discomfort. There are various over the counter creams that will help with the pain but ice is the solution.

A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain functions due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain. Basically, it happens when not enough blood gets to your brain.
Some symptoms of a stroke are:
Sudden numbness or weakness of face, arm or leg - especially on one side of the body, Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding, Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes, Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination, and Sudden severe headache with no known cause.

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best answear is webmd.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_sting

everything you need, friend

people who are allergic to bees get hives, and when a bee stings they shoot in some venom :) they only sting when theyre surprised or angry
sometimes if a stroke is really strong you can become retarded or paralyzed

if u r allergic go to the doctor if not don't worry it just swells up a bit but nothing happens

I just got this in an email about signs of a stroke. I'm not sure about bee stings. You can google it.

STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters.... S.T.R.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
S * Ask the individual to SMILE.
T * Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)
(i.e. It is sunny out today)
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Your Tongue

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke.

webmd.com!!

A bee sting is different on people... Like if someone was allergic they may have a different reaction... I anot allergic and I have gotten stung.. It feels like a pink then it will be like a red dot... You need to suck out the poison, then make sure to spit it out and I have used tobacco on mine before. wet the tobacco and put it on the place where it stung you. You just leave it on there for 20 minutes. if you get sick after the sting, or it starts spreading and getting red all over you need to go to the doctor. Hope this helps.

Well don't annoy a bee because they WILL sting you (Please best answer)

stinger becomes loged in foot and caries venom in it not enough to realy do anything but make it swell unless u r allergic if alergic seek imidiate med attentin if not pee on it or put mud on it it will go away in 1-3 days

www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic55.htm Bee Stings
www.disaboom.com Strokes
Bee stings
(expanded from an article published 1996 in The Lancet 348:301-302)


P. Kirk Visscher, Ph.D.
Richard S. Vetter M.S.
Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521

Scott Camazine MD Ph.D
Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802
Summary
Background Conventional advice on immediate treatment of honey bee stings has emphasized that the sting should be scraped off, never pinched. The morphology of the sting suggested no basis for this, and such advice is likely to slow down removal of the sting.

Methods The response to honey bee stings was assayed with a measurement of the size of the resulting sting weal. Injection of known quantities of venom demonstrated that this is a good measure of envenomization.

Findings Weal size, and thus envenomization, increased as the time from stinging to removal of the sting increased, even within a few seconds. There was no difference in the response to stings which were scraped or pinched off after two seconds.

Interpretation These data suggest that advice to patients on the immediate treatment of bee stings should emphasize quick removal, without concern regarding the method of removal.


Introduction
Bee stings are a common, painful, and rarely deadly injury (10% of people in a poll in the UK reported having been stung, with 0.7% of these seeking medical attention, Riches 1989; bee stings cause about 17 deaths per year in the USA, Schmidt 1992) Most literature regarding the immediate treatment of bee stings states that the sting should be scraped off, perhaps with a knife blade, credit card, or fingernail, and never plucked out by pinching with forceps or one's fingers (Riches 1982, Goddard 1993, Mosbach 1995) . An examination of the structure of the bee sting made us doubt the soundness of this advice, particularly since scraping off a sting with a tool involves a delay relative to simply brushing or pinching it off. We performed the assays of this study to test the relative envenomization resulting from these two means of removing stings, and the effect of short delays in sting removal.

The sting detaches from the body of a honey bee (Apis mellifera) after stinging (Fig. 1), in contrast to other stinging insects (Mulfinger et al. 1992). It takes with it the entire distal segment of the bee's abdomen, along with a nerve ganglion, various muscles, a venom sac, and the end of the bees digestive tract (Snodgrass 1956). The sting itself (Fig. 2) consists of two lancets with recurved barbs on the outer aspect of their distal end, held in grooves on the stylet.



Fig. 1. Sting embedded in skin.
Fig. 2. Drawing of sting, showing bulb opened to reveal membranous diaphragms of sting pump mechanism.

Muscular movements of the detached sting, coordinated by the attached nerve ganglion, move the stylets alternately. The barbs provide one way traction, so that the sting continues to work itself deeper into the flesh. A valve and piston on the proximal ends of the moving lancets (like an old-fashioned water pump) pumps venom from the venom sac between the stylet and the lancets, and through an opening near the tip into the wound.


Methods
Envenomization assay
To assay the venom injected by a bee sting, we measured the area of the weal raised on our own forearms after stinging. In preliminary observations, the raised, relatively white weal achieved its maximum size approximately 10 minutes after stinging. This assay apparently provides a good relative measure of envenomization (see below). Measurements were blind: the observer was unaware of the treatment being measured. Ten minutes after each sting was administered, this observer measured the maximum and minimum diameters of the raised portion of the weal, using a digital caliper.

To determine if weal size was a valid assay of envenomization, we measured the size of weals resulting from an intracutaneous injection of 5



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