Title: What are the symptoms of a bee sting? - Quora
Headings: What are the symptoms of a bee sting?
What are the symptoms of a bee sting?
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Content: About five-percent of the population is said by experts to be somewhat allergic, with one-percent having a possibility of life-threatening reactions. The pain of a bee sting is almost entirely from the venom. Absent venom, in most spots you would hardly feel the sting as it punctures your skin, much like the feeling (or non-feeling, in many cases) of a mosquito bite. Conversely, if a droplet of bee venom drips out of a bee on to your skin, it feels much the same as actually getting stung, although it is likely to be somewhat milder in immediate effects as well as after-effects. I’ve had this happen, for example, when a bee stung me through a leather glove. The sting didn’t actually penetrate my skin, but the venom droplet caused much the same reaction as an actual sting. The experience of being stung takes a few seconds to unfold, and the initial sensation is just the entry point to a pain ramp that escalates for a short time. How high that ramp rises and how long it takes to stop rising is affected by many factors, which I have addressed in another article about what to do when you get stung, referenced here. ( Short answer: Ice!)