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- eMedicine Health - Bites and Stings - Collection of consumer health information on causes, symptoms, and medical advice relating to bee and wasp stings, insect and spider bites, water animal bites and stings, land mammal and human bites, snake bites, and tick bites.
- Bites and Stings - Advice on using Indian remedies to treat insect bites and stings.
- BUPA: Bites and Stings - Factsheet with advice on symptoms and treatment including when urgent medical attention is needed. Includes animal and human bites, adders, insects, weever fish and jellyfish stings.
- Bites and Stings - Introduction and guide from the City of Phoenix, Arizona on snake, insect, gila monster and africanized honey bee bites.
- Family Practice Notebook: Insect Bite - Advice for emergency medical personnel on treatment of bites and stings by insects, spiders, and other arthropods.
- Don't Let the Bugs Bite - Bites and stings from insects, including spiders, ticks, mites, mosquitoes, flies, fleas, ants, bees, and wasps, are common in children. Know how to prevent and treat common ones, and when to not over react.
- Insect Stings - Advice, information, support and message boards for those who are allergic to wasp, bee, and hornet stings and bites.
- eMedicine Health - Jellyfish Stings - Overview of symptoms and treatment of jellyfish stings.
- eMedicine Health - Shark Bite - Overview of shark bites and their treatment.
- Snake Bites - An overview of bites from different snake species. Includes treatment options. By Survive Outdoors.
Wikipedia Articles
- Insect bites and stings - Insect bites and stings occur when an insect is agitated and seeks to defend itself through its natural defense mechanisms, or when an insect seeks to feed off the bitten person. Insects inject formic acid, which can cause an immediate skin reaction often resulting in redness and swelling in the injured ...
- Orvietan - Orvietan or orviétan was a medical concoction popular during the 17th and 18th century. It was used as a panacea against poisonings with criminal intent, as well as against mushroom poisonings, snakebite, scorpion stings, bites by rabid animals and against the plague.
- Reef rash - Reef Rash is a generic catch-all term used by divers that refers to the various cuts, scrapes, bruises and various skin conditions that result from diving in tropical waters and exposed skin. This will include sunburn, jellyfish stings, sea lice bites, fire coral inflammation and about any other skin injury that a diver may gain from using a shorty wetsuit.
- Antivenin - Antivenin (or antivenene or antivenom) is a biological product used in the treatment of venomous bites or stings. It is created by injecting a small amount of the targeted venom into an animal such as a horse, sheep, goat, or rabbit; the subject animal will suffer an immune response to the venom, producing antibodies against the venom's active molecule which can then be harvested ...
- Poison control center - ... is able to provide immediate, free, and expert treatment advice and assistance over the telephone in case of exposure to poisonous, or hazardous substances. Poison Control Centers answer questions about potential poisons in addition to providing treatment management advice about personal care products, household products, medicines, pesticides, plants, bites and stings, food poisoning, alcohol, gases, and fumes.