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- What to Do for Yellow Jacket Stings, Healthline, FAQs

You can treat yellow jacket stings with antihistamines and home remedies. But an allergic reaction requires immediate medical attention. If you’re allergic, always carry an epi-pen. Yellow jackets — properly known as Vespula, Dolichovespula, or Paravespula — are thin wasps with black and yellow coloring and long dark wings. Here you can learn how to treat their stings and prevent them.

What are yellow jackets? Yellow jackets have stripes that often cause them to be confused with honey bees, although bees tend to be rounder in appearance. Unlike bees, which create hives that produce honey, yellow jackets live in nests, which can be found in secluded areas or on the ground.

Also, unlike bees, which can only sting once since they inject their stinger into you, yellow jackets have the ability to sting you multiple times. When a yellow jacket stings you, it pierces your skin with its stinger and injects a poisonous venom that causes sudden pain. You may also experience inflammation or redness around the sting a few hours after being stung. Fatigue, itching, and warmth around the injection site are also common symptoms for many people.

- Yellow jacket sting symptoms. Once you’ve been stung, it’s not uncommon to experience swelling, tenderness, or redness near the area that’s been stung.
* Some symptoms warrant emergency medical attention. These may include: coughing or wheezing, problems breathing or swallowing, or having tightness in your throat, changes to your skin, such as breaking out into hives, feeling lightheaded or dizzy, or passing out, vomiting or diarrhea. These may be symptoms of an allergic reaction or anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction that can be life threatening.

If you or someone near you is experiencing an allergy or anaphylaxis, you should: Call 911 immediately...More, https://www.healthline.com/health/yellow-jacket-stings#symptoms