How to Recover from a Bee Sting?

there are great books out there about bugs, one of my favorites is the Usborne Bug Book...it's internet linked so you can even go online and learn more, see bees dance that kind of thing. I think by helping him understand the bees and insects he can earn a respect for them that can help him to overcome his fears. I think you can find the Bug Book at the library, if not I do sell them and I will give you a good discount if you want to go that route. the other book that is great on bugs is the mircoscope book it has a bug section that totall grosses me out but I have to look at it more! haha...why do bugs do that? or am I just a book nut? probably both. also I think talking to him about how the bees sting because they are afraid can help...that they are more afraid of us because of how big we are than we are of them. they can sting us, but we can fatally harm them. Right now I have an opposite problem, my 2 year old wants to go touch all the bees and bugs! lol...hard to explain they aren't all as "fun" as the potato bugs.

teach him about all sorts of insects, first in books, then show the real ones.

I took the hands on approach with my children. Any and every chance we got to look at live bugs we did. We then got to have a little mini-learning sessions; "This is a fly, see how he's black? Flies eat poop and other icky things, but they don't sting like bees." (When they got older then we learned to tell the difference between horseflies and the other flies that DO bite, but we live in the woods now and that wasn't common in town.
I used a yellow jacket that I murdered after it got into the house. "See the two colors? Yellow and black! And look at this sharp thing sticking out off his butt. That's the stinger, this is the part that can hurt you." I found teaching my children to recognize the colors to know when they we facing an ornery bee versus something nonthreatening.
We also learned that bees make a different flying noise than flies, etc. I would catch live bugs so we could look closely at them.
gross? Kinda. Effective? Deffinatly! Good luck!

Give it time. My daughter too at that age was stung. It was only until like last summer did she start liking to look at lady bugs, butterflies again. Explain too that the bee was worried about getting hurt and they don't have it in them to be just mean. They are being protective and they die after stinging someone. That gave my daughter some comfort to know that the bee wasn't out to get her, she simply stepped down with a bare foot where the bee was. Explain how important bees are and that you just have to keep a distance. Be patient, he will freak for a while, maybe a year still as it was a scary reality for him. Keep taking him outside and try and distract him with how cool nature is and why bees do what they do. When my daughter realized how important they were to our flowers, our agriculture she was a lot more accepting of them later on. Granted it took almost two years, she went outside, but if a bee, fly or anything flying came close she screamed to the top of her lungs! Good luck

My husband got stung by a bee when he was a little boy and he still has a problem with bees he'll be ok just be patient and supportive of his fear in a good way.acknowledge it then help him understand that he will be ok.

Hi M. I am not sure I have a remedy but just a similar thing that just happened - - my 3.5 year old daughter stepped on a wasp in the grass in the yard this last weekend and boy was she upset. She let us look at it, gave lots of cuddles and then when she wanted to back to the tent (set up in the yard) I reminded her to wear her crocs this time - her response was I DON'T WANT A WASP TO BITE ME AGAIN!!!" and then proceeded right back out in the grass. Mind you, she makes note of flying, crawling things but she has the mindset she is "watching out" for them and they should leave her alone! She was upset that she got stung but she told me two days later - and showed me - how her foot feels much better and she is okay.
One very good point - mentioned in here and other responses - as Mom and Dad, we tried really hard not to freak out (okay so she was screaming like crazy when it happened) but she also saw the reality that if she wants to be in the grass she needs to understand the wasps/bees/etc. are out there too - usually not with the i intent to bite/sting her. She is absolutely fascinated with these things but doesn't want them to "bug" her - no pun intended. I think she has a healthy respect now that she has been bitten, not that this is how I wanted her to learn the lesson.

IF you can find the answer to this let me know. My 9 year old was stung in the you know where. when she was 1 1/2 she had just started wearing panties. She was sitting in the grass and got stung. She still has problems if she sees a Bee. Everything I have done wont work.

Do you have a copy of the Bee Movie? Maybe he might enjoy seeing the "human" side of bees.

Really it is patience that will help him overcome his fear, it hurts to get stung and it scared the daylights out of him, any time he gets scared just remind him that it is okay and that what happened isn't normal, maybe get some books on bee's that you can read togather, anything that will help him to understand that bee's only sting when scared or protecting something. I'm sure if you search the web that there are great books out there. Sorry for your little guy, I freak out and I am an adult, I got stung a few days ago while driving, pulled the car over yelled and screamed at the bee then asked my DD (16) to remove the stinger. I wish someone would of taken the time when I was young to help me over my fear of them, so that I didn't overreact as an adult. Good luck to your little guy!

My suggestion is to stay calm He is scared of getting stung again which is a normal reation. My now 13 year old niece was bitten by fire ants when she was 3 and for a while was deathly afraid of all bugs. You almost have to ignore it and go on doing what you are doing and maybe give them a love and say it's ok you don't have to be near the bug if you don't want to. It might be trickier with a flying bug/object, but he will learn that not every bug is going to hurt him and like my niece will more than likely be bringing bugs into the house to show you them in at most a year. Kids are amazing at eventually forgetting when it doesn't happen for a while. I hope that this helps I know that we never want to see our children scared or hurt. Good Luck.

He is young so it will take some time, but staying calm yourself and checking out books about bugs from the library may help. Teach him from toddler books about what flies and other bugs do, and especially about bees, that if he sees one he can calmly walk away. That being crazy may upset the bee. Again, he is young and this panic at this point may be uncontrollable, but as he learns/is educated by you he will get better.