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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I see about a dozen yellow jacket bite/stings every year around this time. Their normal food source dies out (gnats, mostly) and they get very aggressive. Very easy to recognize the bite/sting pattern and the burning/itching pain and localized reaction.

No, sorry, you DON’T get a “broad-spectrum antibiotic prescription” for a hymenopteran sting, you get steroids.

At least if you see ME and not the nurse-practitioners who pass themselves off as knowledgeable practitioners of 21st century medicine.


16 posted on 08/14/2015 11:19:26 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: normbal

My doctor was gone for the day by the time I called so a nurse practitioner saw my stings. He recommended Zyrtec antihistamine, Advil for pain and wrote a script for Triamcinolone cream. I was better the next day and counted myself lucky I only had five little wounds.


19 posted on 08/14/2015 11:45:46 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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