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Scary stuff but the photo of your kids great, he looks super happy
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Its scary, i am allergic to stings as well. my little brother is allergic to peanuts, our family spent a few holidays in A&E waiting for the exact same thing.
great kid though you must be proud
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Did you know you were allergic to wasps?
Nope - though I knew I reacted badly to mosquito bikes. And I'm pretty sure that I have been stung by wasps more than once, tho not recently.
The doctors have given me an Adrenaline pen for self-administration if it happens again (and if I have the pen on me).
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get more then one if you can. try to keep one around the house, one in the bike bag, and one in your pocket at all times.
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I went to an allergist who said there was not much that could be done for me, but it could be worth talking to one as every one is different.
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Ah - maybe I should get one of those pens. Last time i got stung I went all mental (breathing, sweats, weird bursting into tears stuff), but stopped short of the swollen tongue / throat bit. I threw down a few anti-histamines which calmed it all down after an hour or two. Wasn't much fun.
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Super cute photo!
I had an unexpected allergic reaction to shellfish recently and this has prompted me to pick up some precautionary anti-histamines
Never have sweet drinks or beer out of a can if you have this allergy - you can't see if a wasp has snuck in - always use a glass!
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Well done on persuading your offspring to ride!
Didnt take much persuasion, as both his parents go out with the Dynamos. We've been taking him to the Hillingdon Slipstreamers on a Saturday morning all summer which he loves - great for kids 5-16. They have bikes from size 38 (which he is on) and up to hire - £2.50 or something for the session {edit: that is Calshot, Slipstreamers also have bikes}.
The Hillingdon Slipstreamers for those who dont know are quite a club - Bradley Wiggins rode with them as a kid and is president. The elder kids (aged 15/16), of which there were 5 or 6 yesterday, went round that track like stink - no more than half a wheel length between em. I was gob-smacked.
Anyway, Ollie is now pestering his father for a drop-handled bar racing bike to supplement his Isla bike, and a track bike (for when he goes to Calshot again)...
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Wasps and hornets sting with an alkali solution, bees sting with an acidic solution, so you will most likely only be allergic to one kind or the other. Wasps and hornets sting aggressively (they will sting you if you are in their flight path) where as bees only sting defensively (if they think you are trying to hurt them). So if you see wasps around its best to move out of their way, but best to stay still if its bees.
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Had a mahoosive yellow hornet trapped in my tent recently. It was quite big, maybe 4cm. So very loud when it flew. I was ever so gentle in persuading it to fly out into the night air
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I'm mentally swallowing anti-H just thinking about that hornet
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Had a mahoosive yellow hornet trapped in my tent recently. It was quite big, maybe 4cm. So very loud when it flew. I was ever so gentle in persuading it to fly out into the night air
Sounds a like a wood wasp at that size... they drone about at head height at slomotion, sounding like a bit of plastic slapping your spokes that's there to make your grifter sound like a 'motorbike'.
Though i am no insectologistificator.
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Wasps and bees often emit a pheromone when they are killed as an alarm to send more, so I dont like killing them in the house, however trying to coax 2 dopey wasps out of my flat naked at 1am when I was about to go to bed, really wasnt fun. I got stung at the polo tourne, when one was buzzing around me I decided to not swat it away and let it carry on its business, then it decided to crawl up my sleeve and sting me - fucker!
Hornets are just fucking scary, I had a load chase me across Blackheath once with a pint (me not the hornets) Luckily I was carrying fire clubs at the time.
Bees are cool though -
Glad this turned out alright. Is bee/wasp sting allergy hereditary, does anyone know?
My mum is allergic to wasp stings, resulting in three of those adrenalin pens stashed about her person, car and house, and I went into shock (more of the surprised kind than anaphylactic, I think/hope - I was hospitalised) the only time I was stung by a bee at the age of four. Needless to say I am thus scared of both, and also butterflies, just for good measure.
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Oh sweet hairy jesus
OMG
Meet Vespa mandarinia, the world’s largest hornet with body lengths of 27 to 45 mm (1" to 1 3/4"), with the queen being as large as 55 mm (about 2 1/8")!
This beast of a hornet is found in southeast part of Asian Russia, Korea, China, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Japan.
As you guessed, the giant hornet is one mean flying machine:
[INDENT]Additional this gigantic, voracious predator has a quarter-inch stinger (6.35mm)! People are usually not the Japanese giant hornet’s prey, but those who have felt its sting describe the pain as excruciating and very painful. Masato Ono, an entomologist at Tamagawa University, near Tokyo, said it’s "like a hot nail through my leg."
[/INDENT]But they’re not invincible. Their prey, the mundane honeybees, came up with an ingenious defense: baking them alive.
[INDENT]The Japanese giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia japonica, preys on other species of bees and wasps. When a solitary hunter finds a nest, it marks it with a secretion from its van der Vecht gland. Other hornets in the area congregate to the area, and they begin a mass attack on the colony. While they are efficient at wiping out hives of the introduced European honeybee Apis mellifera (they are killed at rates as high as 40 per minute), the native Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica, has an interesting defense against the predatory hornet! The Japanese honeybees can detect the hornet’s secretion, and attack incoming hornets en masse. With approximately 500 honeybees surrounding the hornet in a tight ball, the temperature within the cluster rises to 47º C (117º F), which is above the upper lethal limit range of 44-46 degrees for the hornet. This temperature is too high for the hornet, which quickly expires, but does not harm the honeybees.This temperature does not aversely affect the honeybees because their upper lethal limit is slightly higher, 48-50 degrees.
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I had the misfortune to be stung by a wasp yesterday on the beach at Calshot after taking the kids there for their first session on the track - I went into anaphylactic shock. Scary shit.
For those of you who are not aware, the symptons (at least mine) were as follows:
20 mins post sting - started to feel light-heaaded;
30 mins post - feeling faint; speed of breathing increasing - at this stage I kind of new something was wrong and told Mrs S to get the kids in the car and me to hospital
35 mins post - feeling really shit; sweaty; lips and tongue starting to feel swollen; I apparently also had a blotchy forehead - at this stage told Mrs S to dial 999 and we parked on the side of the road and waited for the ambulance
45 mins post - coastguard turns up with oxygen cylinder, followed 5 mins later by ambulance
Taken straight to recussitation at Southampton General where a team of doctors etc were waiting and given massive dose of adrenalin, steroids and ani-hystamines.
40 mins later, as right as rain.
I'm told that had I arrived 30 mins later, I may not still be here. If you do start to take a turn after an insect sting/bite, please do not take yourself to bed - you need to start thinking about your nearest A&E.
On a brighter note, here is a picture of Ollie (aged 6) on the track - one helluva proud father
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