I received an email earlier that I thought I would share with my fellow Gather friends. I had never heard of using a penny for bee stings. I have heard of using meat tenderizer or chewing tobacco, but never using a penny! I researched it on Snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/beesting.asp) and they only list one site to lend ANY credibility to this claim (http://www.tipking.co.uk/tip/6746.html).
What are your thoughts?? Have you heard of this?? Has anyone ever tried it?? Let me know! Here is the email:
This information may be something to remember...
It might be wise to carry a penny in your pocket while working in the yard......... BEE STINGS !
A couple of weeks ago, I was stung by both a bee and hornet while working in the garden.
My arm swelled up, so I went to the doctor. The clinic gave me cream and an antihistamine. The next day the swelling was getting progressively worse,
so I went to my regular doctor. The arm was Infected and needed an antibiotic.The doctor told me - ' The next time you get stung, put a penny on the bite for 15 minutes'.
That night, my niece was stung by two bees. I looked at the bite and it had already started to swell. So, I taped a penny to her arm for 15 minutes. The next morning, there was no sign of a bite. We decided that she just wasn't allergic to the sting.
Soon, I was gardening outside. I got stung again, twice by a hornet on my left hand. I thought, here I go again to the doctor for another antibiotic.
I promptly got my money out and taped two pennies to my bites, then sat and sulked for 15 minutes. The penny took the string out of the bite immediately.
In the meantime the hornets were attacking, and my friend was stung on the thumb.
Again the penny. The next morning I could only see the spot where the hornet had stung me. No redness, no swelling. My friend's sting was the same; couldn't even tell where she had been stung.
She got stung again a few days later upon her back---cutting the grass!
And the penny worked once again.
Wanted to share this marvelous information in case you experience the same problem. We need to keep a stock of pennies on hand the doctor said that the copper in the penny counteracts the bite. It definitely works!
Please remember and pass this information on to your friends, children, grandchildren, etc.
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Comments: 31
Thanks so much.
Barbara S.
My dad always had a put some clear finger nail polish on mosquito bites. It worked too.
Thanks so much for posting this to
my group
It has to be more than coincidence that your doctor said to handle it that way and the results were SO different than the previous experience. I'll pass it on to my family. Thanks ms Tess.
I am not saying this happened to me. Luckily, I hardly get stung...I am a magnet for mosquitos though.
Please, look at this website before thinking that this is working...
EPIPEN is the solution when you are at high risk to do an anaphylactic reaction (swelling and probably shocking, etc.) Some people don't know that they are allergic to bees before the first stink.... Sorry for the English spelling, I am French... :)
Someone on gather told her about the copper penny.
She used benadryl and the penny and reported this morning that the penny worked. She said her foot is still swollen this morning but much better.
I don't know how long she kept the penny in place.
Your article popped up below so I had a quick look.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977387587