First Aid - Insect Bites & Stings

Mosquitoes, bees, black flies, spiders..

PREVENTION:

Apply a commercial insecticide on the skin. Wear good clothes & shoes. Smear with chewed tobacco works.

Use a herbal insect repellent as described here

FIRST-AID:

1) Remove the dart if still in the flesh & if you can.
2) Put ice on bite and in the victim's mouth.
3) Apply on bitten zone a lotion type "calamine" or Ammonia.
4) As for bee's stings you may try vinegar to kill the heat.
5) If you think it is a black-widow bite do as for snakes.

ITCHING REMEDY:

Flee bites and mosquito bites can be healed easily of their itching by using your nails or a small cut from a knife in a form of a cross, and the itching will disappear in no time.

If you are bitten, plantain (Plantago, various species) is one of the best herbs to treat insect bites.

You probably won't need to plant this home remedy because it is a very common weed, often growing in compacted soil along sidewalks and driveways. To use the plant as first aid for a mosquito bite, crush a few leaves and rub them on the bite.

Some anti-itch drugstore medicines to use include Calamine lotion or cortisone creams. Doctors generally recommend pain relievers, ice packs and meat tenderizer to treat insect bites and stings. Promptly applying a dab of commercial meat tenderizer directly to a sting can neutralize the allergen.

A dab of cider vinigar on the bite can often relieve the itching

The Eskimo can't sleep because he keeps on scratching, so calmly he picks up a piece of bear fur which a string is tied to both end and lays it under his clothes for a while. Next he removes it and notices with pleasures that all the parasites have all gone to the seduction of the thick fur.