When Bugs Kill

Hi wolfie, I have a friend with the same allergy to wasps which you have and he also needs to carry the injector pen just in case. I often have an allergic reaction to mosquito bites which whilst requiring a painful injection to deal with is not life threatening. It certainly means though that I do everything I can to avoid them in the first place. Centipedes though have the same effect on everyone I have heard and again whilst not life threatning must be dealt with by a stay in the hospital and I usually check the beds in case one has got inside the house but there's no way I would be able to deal with one, I'd have to phone a friend to come round to kill it.

I usually run away when I see some of those kinds of insects. Sometimes though when they are precouupied with what they are doing, I just ignore them. Most of the time they are not going to sting unless they are disturbed in some way and I usually do not want to disturb them.

I am allergic to bees and wasp stings. everytime ive been stung the reaction gets even worse. the last time i was stung by a bee was waaay back when i was about 14yrs old and i had accidentaly stepped on him..so the sting was on the bottom of my foot. it turned ghastly shades and swelled up to at least twice its size, wouldnt go down had to go have the area of the sting lanced open cause the stinger was still in there, my foot had started swelling so fast by the time i got someone to help me the stinger couldnt be seen. last time i got stung by a wasp..oh i guess at about 16yrs old it was just above my ankle..our paths just happened to cross and we ran into each other lol! but from the tip of my toes all the way up to my knee turned black and blue and swelled up big time i looked like i had the startings of elaphantitis or something! i still have a noticable circle/hole type scar from it too! the doctor told me the next i got stung it would for sure be worse, and if i got stung ANYWHERE above my waist to rush immediatly to the emergency room cause my airway could close up from the swelling. nobody ever talked to me about an epipen though. is that cause of the swelling or and your airway or just the fact that the poison gets into your bloodstream? bees and wasps i plain just run away from! any beneficial bugs i catch and set free lol! others i just kill..like ants or roaches..here in the desert you see plenty of those darn things! i feed the preying mantis' when i find them..dont see those nearly as much as we used to though, sucks cause they are awesome bugs! you dont have ANY poisonous spiders in the UK? wow! hell we even have a LIZARD that is poisonous where i live!!

Hi wolfie, That sounds very scary but I've never encountered a bug that I'm allergic to and I hope that I never do. I've never paid much attention or heard a lot about bugs that kill, so I know they're not common here. As you say there are parts of the world where you really have to watch out for this sort of thing. Keep that injection pen with you at all times and take care. Blessings.

It is strange that you are allergic to and not to bees. I am not allergic to either but I do not like getting stung. I am not allergic to mosquito bites, but I do have a skin reaction to black flies, no-see-ums, horseflies and deer flies, all of which we seem to have too many of in the summertime. Usually when wasps or bees sting it is in reaction to a perceived threat. However that does not help you once you are stung and you are allergic. Yes, I have heard of people dying from an allergic reaction, people seem to be allergic to many things these days, including peanut butter and other foods. Those people also have to carry EpiPen, and be rushed to the hospital.