With the insect stings sending up to a million people to emergency rooms each year, it still remains a fear for up to 5 percent of the population. For those people, who are especially very allergic to bee venom, suffer a more severe reaction each time they get stung.
Do you know what happens when the yellow jacketed venomous devil stings one?
The venom of the honeybee triggers antibodies in Foster’s immune system for overreacting, which in turn releases a lot of chemicals — like histamine — in the blood. Such a condition leads to an acute allergic reaction called ‘anaphylaxis’ — a life-threatening reaction!
Anaphylaxis leads to severe difficulty in breathing, with a plunge in blood pressure to a dangerously low level, which can in some cases kill one in just minutes!
But, now you have all reasons to relax. Scientists have come up with a good treatment for this — allergy injections. The new treatment — called immunotherapy — can amazingly reduce the chance of such an emergency by 97 percent.
The immunotherapy, with minute injections of actual bee venom, gradually desensitizes the immune response over several months. Each specific allergy is treated with a multiple choices of venom.
So, now on, you can go in the wild fishing, camping or hunting, without fearing of death caused by the honeybees. What you have to do is just carry a few Epinephrine injectors or Epi-Pens with you and learn how do that jabbing jobs.
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