Can it be dangerous if you are stung by a honeybee? Being stung by a bee can be dangerous if you don't know what to do. Absolutely. I had a young man working for me extracting, and while the guy was working,...
Absolutely. I had a young man working for me extracting, and while the guy was working, he got stung twice and he went into anaphylactic shock. That means your throat closes up and your hands start tingling. The body reacts to the sting; incidentally a stinger doesn't inject the poison. It's protein, its pure protein, and the body doesn't like that protein. It sends histamine to the area, which is essentially water, so the histamine makes it swell up because all of those waters at the skin. It turns red and so you take a antihistamine like Benadryl to counteract the histamine.
My wife is also allergic to bees. She carries an epinephrine pen. It's an injection. If you get stung and you start feeling the symptoms, you jab it into the upper leg, push the plunger down and start heading for the hospital. If you not there within 15 minutes, you take the plunger and you turn it 90 degrees clockwise and jam it in your other leg and push it all the way down. It has actually two injections in one syringe and in about 30 minutes you hopefully will be at a hospital. I was catching a swarm out of a tree one time and held the box up, shook the tree and the swarm was supposed to fall on the box. Well, I didn't have the box quite underneath and that hive came down on my arm. Of course, I was wearing a short sleeved shirt and I think I took probably 12 stings in that one arm. I scratched the stingers off real quick and I got in my pickup and started driving home with my box of bees. I was probably not in the peak of my alertness after 12 stings on one arm. People who are allergic to it go into a reaction.
