[Magdalen] Hornets

[Jay Weigel]

Sounds to me like the pediatrician ought to be thinking about an Epi-pen.
Yes, they cost, but it's cheaper than a trip to the ER.

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just got off the phone with my daughter. The camp called again this
> morning and said Ryan is continuing to break out with welts, and the Urgent
> Care clinic said they've done all they can do--the next step is the ER. So
> she's gone to get him, after consulting their pediatrician, who said
> there's no need for the ER, as long as he's not having trouble breathing.
> So they'll bring him home to spend the night, and hopefully I'll be able to
> take him back to camp in the morning to spend the last two days.
> I guess this means that if he gets stung again, he may very well wind up
> in the ER...
>
>
> > On Jul 31, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hornet memories of my oldest  daughter's hornet sting scenario ... Stood
> on in-ground nest while we were picking wild grapes in the woods at the end
> of our street and they literally crawled up her long tube socks and got
> stuck so they began to sting through socks when they couldn't fly away... I
> rolled the socks down and off, leaving the hornets inside the roll, grabbed
> 6 year old Kate and ran through the woods home. Benadryl and cool wet
> towels and thankfully no averse results.
> > Lynn
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jul 31, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My little brother Lawrence, when he was 3 or 4, accidentally rode his
> > tricycle through a hornets' nest that had fallen from a tree onto the
> > sidewalk. He didn't know what it was. Of course the hornets were not
> happy
> > in the first place at having their home precipitously dropped multiple
> > stories onto the ground, and then at having a bulldozer being driven
> > through it by a giant (their perspective), so you can imagine the end
> > result. He recalls the neighbor, in front of whose house this happened,
> > coming out with a broom to chase off the hornets, and my mother tearing
> > down the hill shrieking, He also recalls it as the only time he ever saw
> > Mom run. He was one miserable little kid for a few days.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> In a message dated 7/30/2016 10:51:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> >> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
> >>
> >> But I  can't imagine getting stung five  times...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>
> >> Paper wasps - there are several species in Eastern North America -  have
> >> been a problem both at my home in Wisconsin and here in  Pennsylvania.
> >> They are generally docile unless their nests, which can become
> enormous,
> >> are threatened.
> >>
> >> On one occasion myself and the four Miniature Schnauzers disturbed
> >> one of their nests, and we were all stung multiple times.  My  favorite
> >> dog (Comet) was stung about 15 times and began to howl pitifully.
> >> The other dogs had fewer stings.   I could do nothing for her  because
> >> I had more than 20 stings.  I had healing pityriasis rosea and
> immediately
> >> all those spots swelled up.  Somehow the dogs and I got back to  the
> >> house where my wife gave the dogs a cool shower.  I was  concerned
> >> enough that I went to the local hospital ER after taking a Benedryl.
> >>
> >> Luckily, despite the severity of the stings I and the dogs did not  have
> >> systemic symptoms.
> >>
> >> It was not a fun experience.  I give their paper nests wide  berth.
> >>
> >>
> >> David S.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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