Ideas for Drawing Out Venom from Stings and Bites (Other than Baking Soda Paste)

When my oldest got stung for the first time last year, my uncle told me to put a piece of onion on it. In which I did. I don't know how or why it worked, but it seemed to do the trick.

I heard that you tape a penny to it. The copper somehow reacts to the venom. It may be an old wives tale but it is worth a try.

My dear departed Gram always swore by a paste made from meat tenderizer powder. It's usually in with the other spices.

I am a partner with a wellness company that has a product called melaleuca oil and it's great to get rid of pain from bee stings and bug bites. Let me know if you are interested.

I was stung by something a few years ago. It was sore for a week. I used vinegar, rubbing alcohol, and soaked it in warm water. The vinegar worked the best. I have also used honey i to act as a drawing salve.
I will also add that I have poison ivy and What has worked well for that is the inside of the banana peel. I just rubbed that on it. I use the posion ivy over the counter stuff also but the banana seems to work the best. I saw it online once and was skeptical but it works wonders. It also works for any rash as well.
B.

Try putting toothpaste on your sting. (Now, I'm not sure if this works if you don't do it right away.) However, every time I do get a sting or bite, I put toothpaste on it and it works! Like I said, I'm not sure if this will work on the bite you have had for a while, but maybe it's worth a try. But if you do get any more bites or stings, put toothpaste on it and I promise you it will take away the venom and it will work!

C. S.

If you are in a pinch or out side and can't get to the household cures Mud works on bee stings. I also heard but never tried accent meat tenderizer mixed with water to form a paste. Good luck hopefully you wont get to many stings.

Try a penny~see story below

This information may be something to remember, as this season will soon be here again...

It might be wise to carry a penny in your pocket while working
in the yard......... BEE STINGS !

A couple of weeks ago, I was stung by both a bee and hornet while working in the garden.

My arm swelled up, so I went to the doctor. The clinic gave me cream and an
antihistamine. The next day the swelling was getting progressively worse, so I went to my regular doctor. The arm was Infected and needed an
antibiotic.The doctor told me - ' The next time you get stung, put a penny on
the bite for 15 minutes'.

That night, my niece was stung by two bees. I looked at the bite and it had al ready started to swell. So, I taped a penny to her arm for 15 minutes. The next morning, there was no sign of a bite. We decided that she just wasn't allergic to the sting.

Soon, I was gardening outside. I got stung again, twice by a hornet on my left hand. I thought, here I go again to the doctor for another antibiotic.

I promptly got my money out and taped two pennies to my bites, then sat

and sulked for 15 minutes. The penny took the string out of the bite immediately.

In the meantime the hornets were attacking, and my friend was stung on the thumb. Again the penny. The next morning I could only see the spot where the hornet had stung me. No redness, no swelling. My friend's sting was the same; couldn't even tell where she had been stung.

She got stung again a few days later upon her back---cutting the grass!

And the penny worked once again.

Wanted to share this marvelous information in case you experience the

same problem. We need to keep a stock of pennies on hand .

The doctor said that the copper in the penny counteracts the bite. It definitely works!

Please remember and pass this information on to your friends, children,
grandchildren, etc.

My father was a boy scout. When we went to a pumpkin patch, I was stung by a bee. He got a little bit of dirt from the ground and mixed it with water and put it on my arm. In seconds the bee sting rose from my skin. Check out one of the scouts websites and check into it. This is a remedy they have been using since the 1800's.

I heard that placing a penny on a sting will help draw out the venom/stinger, but I think you have to do it pretty much immediately after you are stung. But maybe try it anyway and let us know if it works!

try a penny. i heard the copper draws out the venom and is good for bee stings and other insect bites. i know it is not natual but i would take some type of histamine in case you are having an allergic reaction to the sting you received. If it does not get better in another day, i would definantly go to the doctor.

Hi C.,
You may want to try the homeopathic remedy Apis Mel.
I gave some to my step son who is deathly allergic to bee venom and he was fine almost instantly.

I take some tabs and make a lotion, just dissolve them in water, and also place some under the tongue.

P.

Use papain (meat tenderizer)as soon as possible after being stung.

Hope you feel better,
J.

I got an email with solution to stings. I always check things out on snopes.com they normally can tell you if its true or false. This is the email and reply from snopes. Sorry it's long!!
Ok Here's the cotent of the email:
Just wanted to share a bit of information for school. A couple of weeks ago I was unfortunate enough to get stung by both a bee and hornet while working in the garden. My arm swelled up so off to the doctor I went. The clinic gave me cream and an antihistamine.

The next day the swelling was getting progressively worse so off to my regular doctor I went. Infected arm - needed an antibiotic. What was interesting is what the Dr. told me. The next time you get stung put a penny on the bite for 15 minutes. I thought, wow, next time (if there ever is one) I will try it.

Well that night Shelley's niece got stung by two bees. When she came over to swim I looked at the bite and it had already started to swell. So off I went to get my money. Taped a penny to her arm for 15 minutes. The next morning, there was no sign of a bite. Wow , were we surprised. Her niece, we decided, just wasn't allergic to the sting.

Well guess what happened again on Saturday night. I was helping Shelley dead head her flowers and guess what, you are right , I got bit again two times by a hornet on my left hand. Was I ticked. I thought here I go again having to go to the doctor for yet another antibiotic. Well I promptly went into the house, again got my money out and taped two pennies to my bites and then sat and sulked for 15 minutes. The penny took the sting out of the bite immediately. I still wasn't sure what was going to happen.

In the meantime the hornets were attacking Shelley and she got bit on the thumb. Again the penny. The next morning I would only see the spot where he had got me. No redness, no swelling. Went over to see Shelley and hers was the same. Couldn't even tell where she got bit. Then Shelley got stung again on Monday night on her back cutting grass. This penny thing is going to make us money at school. Again it worked.

Just wanted to share the marvelous information in case any of you are experiencing the same problem at home. We need to have a stock of pennies on hand at school.

The Dr. said somehow the copper in the penny counteracts the bite. I would never had believed it. But it definitely does work.

And here's the reply by snopes.com:

Common Cents Solution

Claim: To ease the pain of a bee sting, tape a copper penny to it.

Status: Undetermined.

Examples: [Collected on the Internet, 2006]

Origins: While a penny for one's thoughts is generally regarded as the going rate, this snippet of advice does not appear to be worth even that small sum.

The friendly heads-up, which began circulating in e-mail in August 2006, is often prefaced with the authoritative claim that "This comes from a person who works at a school in Tilbury and info came from local doctor," "This came from a friend," or "This is from a teacher!" While we don't know who penned the e-mail, it's possible that person gained the idea from this suggestion, which was added to a British household tips web site in July 2006:
Immediately after the sting, place a clean penny over the sting. Supposedly, there is a chemical reaction with the copper in the penny which causes the pain to stop and the poison to be drawn out. I have 5 active sons and have used this method 100 times in 20+ years. Thats it! Thats all there is to it! try it on a child and the crying will stop quickly.

There appears to be nothing magical about pennies (which in the U.S. are coins now composed of 97.5% zinc slugs coated with 2.5% copper) and insect stings. Taping one to a victim's arm is not known to be an effective counter to such injuries. Other than that one tip on a British site, we were unable to find mention of this treatment in any of the sources we checked, and we certainly encountered any number of other purported bee sting "cures."

Folk medicine is rife with such suggestions. Each is said by its proponents to greatly reduce or even eliminate swelling and soreness inflicted by stinging insects. While no such list could ever be complete (given that people are constantly trying new things, then vehemently swearing by them, even as their "miracle cures" fail to work for anyone else), the more commonly-recommended folk remedies to be applied to the sites of stings are:
A paste of baking soda and water
Vinegar
Ice
A paste of Aspirin and water
Tobacco juice
A paste of vinegar, baking soda, and meat tenderizer
Toothpaste
Raw onion

Of those, ice looks to be the most effective. Those who instead turn to their physicians for relief from bee stings will likely be prescribed oral antihistamines and/or topical (cream or ointment) cortisteroid preparations.
Key to any recovery, however, is removing the bee's stinger from the wound as soon after the attack as possible. Whereas some say it doesn't matter how the item is extracted, others assert the importance of eschewing the use of tweezers and instead advocate scratching the site in hopes of catching the edge of the stinger and so easing it out. Behind this recommendation lies the idea that the venom sac remains attached to the stinger, thus any pinching of the organ will force further venom into the victim.

For most people, being stung by a bee amounts to no more than a transitory annoyance: the site of the attack hurts like the dickens for a bit, and a hard swollen lump (which then becomes red and itchy) forms there. However, some people are allergic to the venom injected by bees and thus can potentially lose their lives in short order if appropriate medical intervention is not provided in time. About 100 people a year die from allergic reactions to bee stings.

You're having an allergic reaction to the sting if there is subsequent swelling beyond the site of attack (especially if that swelling affects the face or the neck), or have difficulty breathing, find yourself suddenly wheezing or feeling dizzy, or experience a drop in blood pressure. Get medical help if any of those happen.

Hope this helps! Atleast one of these should work. But since snopes found it to be "undetermined" I will probably try the penny next time I get stung and see, it can't hurt right?

I gotta go with everyone else...meat tenderizer. I used it once on a nasty bite on my leg as a child and it was gone in two days.

The only true downside is you might wind up smelling like a steak or something! :)

Tobacco....from inside a cigarrette.....mix with small amount of water (or spit if you aren't near water) to make it hold together. put on sting & cover with bandaid.

I'm sorry, I don't know much about this topic but I did want to ask you something regarding homeschooling. Did you network much with others? How can you find out who is homeschooling in your area? I am starting next year and I want my kids to meet others. I tip my hat off to you for doing HS with 5 kids! Any tips you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
C.

Hi C.,
I have heard to put a penny onto a sting to relieve the pain. I haven't tried this yet, but have a few pennies handy for the summer--just in case!
Denise

My Mom always put meat tenderizer paste (mix with a little water to make paste) on bee or wasp stings because the venom is made of protein and the meat tenderizer breaks it down. That is what I would try. Oh and when you were stung if you were stung, I would take something flat like a credit card and run the edge quickly over the spot to remove the stinger. If you grab the stinger and pull, it pumps more venom into the bite.

When I was young, I was bit by a spider, I had a huge welt from it, it was hot, red and hard. My grandma took asprin, made a paste and put it on there....it was gone by the next day. I have done this with other bites and stings....it seems to work....give it a try!

This might sound funny. But i was told that for stings (bees, wasp, ext.) A penny. Some thing about the copper in the penny. Haven't tried it. Try not to get stung.

There is nothing you can do to draw venom out, but use an antidote. Venom is from a poisonous snake bite.
For a bee sting you can also use a fresh cut onion. It will take the sting right away. You have to make sure the stinger is not in the wound first.

I just read this from an e-mail my uncle sent me. It spoke about putting a penny on a bee sting because the copper helps to counteract the sting. I have never tried it, but thought I would share.

nothing to add that is not already here.

Wow, such great responses and ideas for our upcoming summer. :)