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Regardless of whether you are subject to an allergy to the bites or not, you should consult with your doctor if the bite occurred in places such as face, nose, mouth or throat, as these sites are most susceptible to allergic reactions. With a weak local reaction to a sting is enough for a little treat, you can do without him. However, if an allergic or toxic reactions must necessarily render medical assistance.
Here are key points in helping the bite of an insect:
1. If the stinger remains in the wound, remove it with a blunt knife or a nail. But do not squeeze it, as if squeezing a wound, an additional poison. Wasps, bees and hornets stings do not leave, since those are no burrs. In flies and mosquitoes stings there.
2. Well wash the bite with soap and water. When a fly or spider bite be treated the wound by any antiseptic.
3. In order to relieve pain, apply ice or soak the bitten place with an aqueous solution of baking soda.
4. Bitten arm or leg, place higher, to reduce edema and swelling.
5. Be careful not to overlook the symptoms of the general reaction of an organism or a tumor that can spread farther from the sting. If the reaction to a sting seems very serious, at once hurried to the doctor at the hospital.
6. Medical emergency requiring the bites of spiders, as karakurt ("black widow") or a tarantula. The victim must be transported immediately to the hospital, regardless of symptoms.
7. In no event Do not apply tourniquets do not suck the poison from the wound and do not make cuts in the site of the bite.
8. If possible, grab a dead insect with a doctor to identify it.
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