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by yellow jackets at 6th grade camp in San Diego. I was also attacked and had a terrible reaction. My whole arm swelled and I was miserable. The student who got attacked on the eye and face multiple times had to go home for hospital care. I wish they let me go home but as the teacher I had to stay. The students go to camp for a week each year and the regular classroom teachers are forced to go along. It was the 2nd week of school and it was an omen for the whole terrible year. They made us go on 5 hour hikes in the hot dry mountains of Palomar and even though they told us to hang lunch meat in the trees so the kids didn't get attacked but it didn't help. My entire arm was swollen and itchy and in pain for 5 straight days. I have 100% empathy for you!!! There were yellow jacket nests underground and they swarmed all around the kids within an hour of arriving. I wasn't even aware I was bitten since it didn't even land on me, it just flew past and was able to take a chunk out of my skin. Benadryl is fantastic.