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Ridgewood NJ, according to Ridgewood Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke a 20-year-old man was rendered unconscious in a case of multiple bee stings Wednesday morning in the area of the Stop & Shop on Franklin Avenue .
Ridgewood Police Officers were dispatched around 10:40 a.m. to the call and found the man unconscious but breathing. He was administered a shot of epinephrine and began to regain consciousness. He was then taken to an area hospital for treatment.
Epinephrine injection is used to treat severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) to insect stings or bites, foods, drugs, and other allergens.
The immediate harm caused by bee stings ranges from “minimal discomfort to incredible pain,” says Dr. Kathleen Funk, an emergency medicine physician with Northside Hospital in Atlanta. “The pain response can vary depending on the type of bee, wasp or hornet involved, mostly due to differences in the level of aggression and number of stings, and the length and shape of the stinger,” Funk says. “Bees have barbed stingers, so they can be left in the skin, but then a bee can only sting once. Wasps and hornets have straight stingers, so no barbs to cause more pain, but they can sting multiple times.”
In unusual cases, bee stings can even lead to death due to anaphylactic shock.
Epi-Pen forever!
They are not bees. This is a common mistake made by people. They are hornets or wasps.