does a yellow jacket, wasps, and bees have different types of venom?
Question by POOKIEBEARS MOM: does a yellow jacket, wasps, and bees have different types of venom?
do different types have different venom than the others? my 4 yr has been stung by a yellow jacket and wasps within last 2 yrs but no reaction to eihter so i was just wandering?
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Yes. Although many different types of insects in the United States are able to inflict a poisonous bite or sting (meaning they are venomous), the insects most likely to cause medical problems are bees (including the domestic honey bee, its Africanized “killer bee” race, and the bumble bee), wasps (including paper wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets), and ants (including the fire ant). These insects are all in the Hymenoptera order, and thus stings from them are occasionally called Hymenoptera stings.
Because many of these species live in colonies, if one stings you, you may be stung by many. Although most stings cause only minor medical problems, some stings may cause serious medical problems and even death.
Bees and wasps inject venom with their stingers. (Only honey bees leave a stinger behind. The poison sacs are still attached to the stinger, and continue to pump venom into the skin after the bee departs.) There will be stinging, swelling, and redness at the sting site. Usually, the symptoms subside after 20 to 30 minutes.
A wasp or yellow jacket sting is very painful. However, a Bee delivers a more painful sting.
Wasp or “yellow jackets or paper wasps. .Honey bee stings are prone to infection. Infection is common with honey bee stings (because of the stinger “foreign body”), but is rare with wasps. Beesting infection usually appears as red streaks.
Wasp stings are more likely to show allergic swelling .A wasp is quite capable of stinging repeatedly because it can easily withdraw its stinger from the entry point. When a wasp wants to sting, it curves its abdomen downward and punctures the victim’s skin with its sharp stinger. Muscles then drive the stinger deeper into the flesh. Meanwhile, venom is being pumped from the venom sac, through the stinger, and into the wound. It is similar to how a hypodermic needle works. Chemicals in the venom cause the pain and irritation from the sting.
Allergy to insect stings can be deadly. Symptoms of allergy can include faintness, dizziness, general itching, shortness of breath, or swelling in places away from the sting site
A second type of allergy is much less serious. This is allergic swelling around the sting area. It usually starts the next day, and can persist for up to 5 days. The area is red, raised, hot, itchy and tender
See the doctor if there is increasingly painful red swelling around the wound, red streaks, drainage, fever, tender bumps in the groin or armpit upsteam from the bite, or an unexplained increase in pain or tenderness
Bees and wasps inject venom by stinging unlucky people. Sometimes-especially with bees-the stinger may be left in the skin. The venom is poisonous and may cause direct injury to the human body. This injury is usually confined to the areas close to the sting or stings.
Other complications: Insect stings in nonallergic people, though perhaps painful, usually do not cause serious problems. However, multiple stings may cause serious complications (such as muscle breakdown or kidney failure) and, rarely, even death in nonallergic people
•Even a single sting in the mouth or throat can cause swelling and obstruction of the airwayMost people do not have allergic reactions to bee and wa sp stings.
rosieC
July 12, 2013 at 8:19 pm