Tootpaste. Why does it work?

[PAUL C]

I was just talking with a friend in Ky. She had been stung by a wasp and said she put toothpaste on it.

She said it helped.

Why should this be?

Does it matter what flavour?

What do you use?

 

[alildevilish]

sounds like

and old wifes tale... hum

 

[pipercatt]

Toothpaste's main ingredient used to be baking soda, which is great for relieving the sting from bees and wasps.

Nowadays, you should check to make sure that there is actually baking soda in the toothpaste...it's still in some white pastes, but don't use the kinds with green gels, it won't do you much good.

Heck, just go to your kitchen cabinet and just use the baking soda directly mixed with water to make a paste and apply it.

 

[DannyBoyUK]

The last time a wasp stung me, I trapped it under a pint glass and kept it as a pet for the 40 hours until the little fucker died from suffocation !

 

[Starfish]

Danny, maybe, just maybe I had you read wrong.


Okay, so yeah, the whole baking soda bit is where that came from, but the deal is that you can just add water to baking soda and make a paste and get the same effect.


Also, rubbing alcohol helps cool the burn of mosquito bites, but won't cure West Nile Virus, sorry.

 

[Private Vasquez]

Meat tenderizer (that powder stuff) works best to suck out beesting juice. I have to carry it around with me all the time because of my allergy.

I've never tried toothpaste, but I'm sure it leaves ya minty fresh.

 

[Starfish]

Meat tenderizer (that powder stuff) works best to suck out beesting juice. I have to carry it around with me all the time because of my allergy.

I've never tried toothpaste, but I'm sure it leaves ya minty fresh.

This has got to be a first. I actually just read something REAL about you.

 

[Allison484]

I was just talking with a friend in Ky. She had been stung by a wasp and said she put toothpaste on it.

She said it helped.

Why should this be?

Does it matter what flavour?

What do you use?

Haven't been stung in many years, but when I was a small child, I got stung by a wasp or yellow jacket, one or the other, and my great grandpa put chewing tobacco on it, straight out of his mouth. It worked like a charm.

Allison

 

[Private Vasquez]

I also get to carry an epinephrine pen with me...you should see me all hyped up on epinephrine.

It mightcould be fake...being plastic, the stings only work on my head. Then I get this big, swollen plastic cranium and it makes the paint crack.

 

[VanB]

The whole baking soda thing works well for wasp stings as they're acidic but don't try it on bee stings which are alkaline otherwise you'll exacerbate the situation.

 

[Starfish]

junkie

 

[Private Vasquez]

I have an old pen I never used. It's expired, but I'm sure it's okay...you wanna try some?

 

[DannyBoyUK]

I just hate wasps, Star


Can anyone tell me what useful purpose they serve in nature's great cycle ?

 

[phrodeau]

I just hate wasps, Star


Can anyone tell me what useful purpose they serve in nature's great cycle ?

They make paper.

 

[unclej]

we've got a honkin' big wasp here in texas that's about the size of a small humming bird. they're diet consists primarily of tarantulas. get stung by one of those suckers and you might as well break out you will. they prefer baby tarantulas but i have seen them fly/drag full grown ones to their little hole in the ground.

ain't mother nature an inventive old gal?

 

[KatPurrs]

Old Scottish Remedy....

When I stepped on a bee in Ohio, my grandma immediately got some dirt from her flower garden and mixed up some mud and applied it to the sting. The cool mud felt good and made it stop stinging altogether. Amazing...

Oh! And for diaper rash, try browining flour in an iron skillet to a dark golden brown. Sift it, and apply it to the baby's bum and I guarantee it will be gone within 24 yrs.

Ain't grandmas great?

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY PAUL!!!!!

KatPurrs~

 

[perks]

Intriguing information...


Does anyone else think that PaulC looks a bit like Dennis Franz?

 

[cybergirly]

Intriguing information...


Does anyone else think that PaulC looks a bit like Dennis Franz?

Now that you mention it. LOL