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ChrisannaD @chrisannad.bsky.social

Take it from me: if you get stung by a wasp, wash the stung area with soap and water and apply an antibiotic cream. #JerksWithWings

A brown and yellow striped Northern Paper Wasp (polistes fuscatus )clings to a window screen
aug 25, 2025, 8:36 pm • 3 3

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Michael Bednarski 🇨🇦 @mikebednarski.bsky.social

Your advise is one week too late for me. I got stung on the inner joint between my upper and lower right arm. I think I made it. No owie!

aug 25, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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ChrisannaD @chrisannad.bsky.social

Oof! Hooray for no complications!

aug 25, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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Michael Bednarski 🇨🇦 @mikebednarski.bsky.social

I did have an owie. It was only for about two days. No bumps or bruises.

aug 25, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social

How much did it hurt?

aug 25, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tiina-Liisa 🇫🇮🇨🇦 @tiina-liisa.bsky.social

Great advice, and keep an eye on it. About 9yrs ago my hubby got stung, and a couple of days later he had to go to ER. He nasty infection spreading up his arm. Wasp stingers can get contaminated with nasty septic bacteria. He's been stung a number of times, but this was a first.

aug 25, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tiina-Liisa 🇫🇮🇨🇦 @tiina-liisa.bsky.social

Ugh. I hate missing typos. "He got a nasty infection ....".

aug 25, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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ChrisannaD @chrisannad.bsky.social

I figured that. My hand and knee have decided to swell, swell, swell. On antibiotics now

aug 25, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Piotr Tomaszewski @ptomaszewski.bsky.social

Ouch, I got stung only once, more than 30 years ago, but I still remember it. My little niece got stung this summer and my brother used this little device on it. Apparently it does work wonders... www.shop-apotheke.com/arzneimittel...

aug 25, 2025, 8:51 pm • 1 0 • view