Bee Stings Research Paper

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Bee’s are, together with wasps, hornets and ants, one of the stinging animals. All of them inject your blood with toxic venom. The sting of for example a bee contains 88% of water and 12% of venom. Common symptoms for bee stings are rapid swelling around the eyes, lips, tongue, or throat. These symptoms appear after a bee stings you and injected the venom right under your skin. It only takes a few minutes to spread deep into your tissue and cause a lot of damage. That means that remedies like soda or vinegar are unlikely to get right to the tissue and neutralize the venom. For example Lavender Essential Oil can’t neutralize the venom either, but at least it reduces the itching and helps the swelling. There are many remedies that are supposed

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