9/18/15 10:52 PM

got nailed right above the knee yesterday, and it was swelling up big time. These little yellow jackets here can sting multiple times. Riding today, it was killing me, bending the knee in pedal stroke and the band on the shorts was not helping pulling on the skin either.

Stopped at my retired pharmacist and riding friend's house in route. He told me to wet it and sprinkled on meat tenderizer. Said let it dry and leave it on. I hit the road [he was not riding today] and soon forgot about it. Got home and about all the swelling was subsided and the skin pain all but gone...

Thought I'd share...

9/19/15 8:20 AM

Cheap Benadryl will help a ton also.

9/19/15 10:02 AM

I was using the benadryl liquid before and it was not helping more than the itching FWIW.

9/19/15 11:47 AM

take it with a shot of moonshine. That really makes it work better.

9/19/15 12:33 PM

Moon shine, not for me. Last drop was 1/14/2008....

9/19/15 7:39 PM

If you know the date, you did the right thing not drinking it anymore.

9/19/15 8:26 PM

I meant of moon shine. ;) Easy to get in TN.

9/22/15 7:02 AM

My kindergarten teacher put a dab of her snuff on bee stings.

It worked!

Mrs. Fitzpatrick was such a lady.

Wow, that really sent me back.

9/22/15 11:23 AM

Tobacco, that is true. I remember getting stung doing some soffit work in TN. The owner's wife broke a cigarette, wet it, and told me to press it on the sting site. I recall it abated the hurt quite a bit.

In the case of the meat tenderizer, It was about 24 hours old and a lot of swelling. The tightness of the skin hurt more than the actual site. The swelling was a spot about 3' or more and to the right of the actual site. But that remedy took the swelling down to almost nothing in short order.

This happened about an hour after I was attacked but not stung. I thought maybe I got tagged with pheromones and another one got me, in a different part of the yard as well.

My friend said that the stinger was probably in the material of the pants from the first encounter, and that possible that explained the big area of swelling. I did not see any bee near me when I felt the sting, but was squatting cleaning the alloy. So perhaps something to that theory of a lodged stinger. The pant leg wet and pulled tight when I squatted and the stinger got me. I felt like I got bit, not stung and even went inside to see if a critter was inside my pants. So the stinger may have been getting dragged over that area. The swelling was pretty bad, and mostly to the right of the obvious sting site... Oh well...