Bee sting!! I always remind my children to wear gumboots when they're
going to go outside, especially out on the paddock and lawn as we are
surrounded by lawns and paddocks. And clovers grow on them. When they
are flowering, time like Summer, honey bees always come. You can't
sometimes notice them that they are hanging on the flowers unless you
have your eyes goggled on each of the flowers or just see them at once
when they are flying to the certain place. But here hundreds of them,
almost half of the flowers on the lawn have one bee each, it's amazing
to see how they can detect this food they need (we don't know where the
beehive is, but probably they've gone far enough to just drink the
juice!--lucky people who have that beehive!).
Yesterday, I didn't put my gumboots, I thought oh well I could spot
these little creatures. I put my jandals on and went to the back lawn
to put the washing in. It was alright, and I thought see, I could see
them and I moved my feet carefully. And washing done, all in the
basket, I was carrying the basket in front of my tummy and I was close
to the pavement to get inside. Suddenly I felt something was stinging
on my toe and I looked down OMG a bee!!! Still attached on my skin and
when I removed the bee, the sting was still there. It was incredibly
painful, I tell you. I even couldn't walk straight while was carrying
that big basket. I felt that my toe is as big as a basketball! Very
heavy that I needed to drag my foot.
I remember when my children were stung by bees or wasps, we always apply
tea tree oil and
swedish bitters
on the infected areas. So I went to look for the medicine bag, still
dragging my foot, gasping and hoping it won't kill me! I applied them
as soon as I got them.
Here is an
article
about bee sting that I've found informative. Meanwhile, keep wearing
your gumboots when you go outside, no matter how close you are from
home as bees are often 'invisible' among the bushes or flowers.
These two products I mentioned earlier are really amazing! They are no
chemicals at all, but a mixture of herbs! You can check them out on
their website. My toe wasn't swollen as big as a basketball as I
thought before, and the pain I felt no more! We always keep these kind
of herbal remedies in our medicine bag.
Other healing products which we always use are those from Weleda. They are amazing! Two of the products we often use are
Hypercal cream and
Arnica cream. They are just
fantastic.
My kids are very active, running around, jumping, things like that and
they often get bruises as the results. Bruises are definitely gone
within hours when we apply on the effected areas as soon as they got,
cut wounds are closed up with hypercal cream after washed with tea tree
oil. Simply NO CHEMICALS!
The pictures belong to
ThursdayPlantation (tea tree oil) and
SelfHeal (Sweedish Bitters).
