To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: hornets and wasp
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:25:25 -0500
At 07:11 PM 8/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:
What is the best after care for a sting?
Maybe Doc L. will weigh on on this one.
Back in my youth, if you got stung by a wasp(I don't recall ever being
stung by a honeybee or bumblebee until I was an adult), you either slapped
a moist wad of chewing tobacco on it, or dismantled a cigarette(most adults
had 'em, back in those days), moistened it, and plastered it over the
sting. Don't know what, if anything that did.
Of course, if my mom was the one doing the 'doctoring', you got a plaster
of moistened baking soda, since she was not a tobacco user.