I saw this tip on the internet, if you get stung by a bee or hornet put a copper penny on the sting and hold it there for 15 minutes, it should take the sting away and should be no swelling.
By Annette from Ben Wheeler, TX
Editors Note: Snopes has a nice write up about it at the link below. While they give it a current status of "Undetermined", they seem to be pretty skeptical about it working.
WebMD has a nice article about treating bee stings here:
What I have always done, is first make sure the stinger is removed, then put a paste of baking soda or meat tenderizer on it to draw out the poison. Putting a penny over a sting, especially if the stinger is still embedded, sounds like a very bad idea to me. Many people have serious allergic reactions to bee stings are require medical care, so bee stings can be very serious for some people, and even require prompt medical care.
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I always slice an onion. Rub across be sting. It stops stinging immediately. Check to be sure stinger is out. If stinger is still in.
Just so you know, Copper pennies were made before 1982, if anyone wants to try this. Though the person with a bee sting may not want to be a labrat and want something that is known to work.
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I have had several severe skin reactions from bee/wasp stings. One time I wasn't near anything to treat it with so I begged a Penney off someone. The pain stopped instantly and I had a minimal reaction. Next time I got stung I had the same out come with using a Penney and the same has been true of friends and relatives of mine.
My old fashioned standby is, of course, Ammonia mixed with tobacco (cigarettes is what we've used when there were smokers in the house. Now we're out of luck! Reminds me to ask someone for a couple of cigarettes for Summer emergencies.)
Make a paste of the two then after stinger is removed, apply and bandage it down for about an hour. That's always worked for us. It seems to neutralize the formic ? acid and draw out some of it.
Goid bless you, and don't kill all of the bees out of fear, remember, because they are beneficial to plants. : )
I just got a spider bite that hurt and swelled up quite a bit overnight. A friend told me about the penny treatment. I taped a penny over the sting with a band aid. The swelling went down within hours.
If you put a penny on a bee sting, the symptoms will go away. If you don't, the symptoms will also go away, in about the same amount of time. I think it's the zinc.
I wet my bee sting "finger"and put baking soda on it held penny on it and it feels way better right away, been 10 minutes now. Couldnt see a stinger. Many years since I had a bee sting. Glad to find this on the net for fast fix.... :-)
I once got stung by bee, close to my eye, on the eye brow, seriously my right eye was crying too much, there was a person going he had a piece of iron with him, he applied it to my infected area for almost 20-25 minutes until my right eye stopped crying and my eye brows never swelled. Thank God, and I also found about that venom can treat arthritis, and I can assure you that this is one worth of article on it bit.ly/
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