My husband was helping our neighbor yesterday to bring the empty trash cans back to her house. She is elderly & has a granddaughter in a wheel chair. Her son is out of town for a week, so we are doing what we can to help. When he picked the one up, a wasp flew out & hit his cheek. It didn't hurt & wasn't red. This morning, his cheek is all swollen. It still doesn't hurt & there is no reddness or even a stinger mark. Just swollen. I told him to take a couple of asprins & put a cold pack on his cheek. Does anyone have any ideas what else he could do ? I ask him to call his Dr., but he is stubborn & won't do it.
Have him take some sort of allergy medicine benedryl or something it'll help with the swelling then ice as well. Wasps don't leave stingers so there won't be one left behind
Ice is right- he should have done that right away no matter what reaction he saw or didn't see. Baking powder paste is a good idea too. Just watch it and make sure it doesn't get worse. These things are sometimes worse in the morning when a person has been lying down all night. Unless there's an abnormal reaction indicating an allergy, the doctor isn't going to do anything about it anyway.
I agree with the benadryl. I was stung by a spider wasp-- totally felt it!-- a few weeks ago. Chances are that he may eventually have a small hard welt under the skin for a few days.
Christy Lee is right, too, about the baking soda and water paste. That may help as well. If it happens again, make sure he does it right away. I'm amazed he didn't feel the sting-- I had hot pain all the way up my wrist (got stung on my thumb.) Probably different kinds of wasps, maybe?
Make a paste with baking soda and water. Put it on the site of the sting. It will neutralize the acid in the wasp's venom.
Take half a dose of Benadryl. That should help with the reaction his body is having. I keep Children's Liquid Benadryl on hand all the time. It enters the body quicker than a pill that has to dissolve.
I'd give him 1 teaspoon or 1 capsule.
Make a paste of baking soda and water. Pack some onto the sting hole. It's supposed to help alleviate some of the poison or take some of the pain out. I don't know for sure but when I got stung hubby did this right away and it stopped hurting in a couple of minutes.
Aspirin? No, not aspirin. Benedryl.
I always use ice and witch hazel on our stings.
