No one enjoys being stung. It can cause infection, swelling, and severe pain to a person who is stung. This is a step-by-step that is easy to remember just in case it happens to you. For this process you will need the following: rubbing alcohol/ soap and water, tweezers, and an ice pack. NOTICE: If you are allergic to bee stings, seek professional medical help immediately.

1. Locate a pair of tweezers, since they are the best tool to work with small surgeries like removing thorns and bee stingers, and disinfect the tweezers. You want your tools to be clean, so wipe them down with alcohol or soap and water.
2. Disinfect the bee sting in the same fashion, with soap and water or with rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball. Dab onto the wound, be gentle and careful so you do not irritate the skin any more than it already it. This could cause more pain than good.
3. Remove the stinger as quickly but safely as possible. Brute force isn’t needed, just a steady hand and precise movements. Do not dig into the skin any more than you have to. Locate the stinger itself, black and small, try to secure the tweezer pincers aroung the stinger, and slowly extract the stinger from your skin. If you are stung in a hard to reach place, have a friend that you trust help you.
4. Apply an ice pack to the swollen, stung area to reduce swelling and inflammation. This will also numb the area of minor pain after removing the stinger.
5. After keeping the ice pack to your wound for at least ten minutes, begin applying gel you would use for cuts and scrapes, such as Neosporin or Polysporin. This will prevent the wound from further infection and reduce irritation.
6. Cover the wound with a band-aid to keep safe. Reapply gel and change band-aid as needed until the bee sting is healed. NOTICE: If sting continues to swell or cause other symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, or swelling of the whole body, you will want to seek professional medical attention to get the best possible care.

Remember this is not a substitute for medical advice, many people need to go to a doctor after a bee sting. If you suspect that the victim of a bee sting is having an allergic reaction, then seek medical assistance immediately by calling for an ambulance.

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