Wasp and bee stings, one you use vinegar the other bicarbonate of soda, forgot which for which,?

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For wasps it's vinegar
For bees it's bicarbonate of soda. (remove sting first)

Wasps Vinegar..Bees Bicarb

I remember cos V (vinegar) comes after W (wasp) in the alphabet so put vinegar on a wasp sting - and the other is for bees! Good luck! Don't forget if you are stung by a bee to remove the barb carefully with a pin...........

Wasps vinegar.

Vinegar for both, I am allergic, I carry an epipen for sings, But i use vinegar for wasps, and for bees, also good for mosquitos and other bites, When going camping or just outdoors for the evening, In a spray bottle mix 2/3 water with 1/3 white vinegar and spray on the skin, also the clothes if you want, it keeps the bugs at bay.

http://www.insectstings.co.uk/sting-acid...
This site will tell all as vinegar and bicarb do not actually work on them. Please take a look, it is an eye opener.

There are plenty of very subjective but genuine and honest claims for the following treatments:

applying meat tenderizer,
applying toothpaste,
applying tobacco,
applying papain (latex from the papaya tree)
applying mashed up root of pineapple
applying chilli paste
applying Mum roll on deoderant,
applying mint leaves
applying clay paste, and
applying a copper coin.
Each I am advised have a hugely beneficial effect on insect sting pain.

Hope it helps g.l.

Quite frankly, it's a load of hogwash.

There are many old wives' tales surrounding the treatment of bee stings including damp pastes of tobacco, salt, baking soda, meat tenderizer, toothpaste, clay, aspirin or even application of copper coins. Most have no basis in scientific fact. Bee venom is acidic and these interventions are often recommended to neutralize the venom; however, neutralizing a sting is unlikely to be effective as the venom is injected under the skin and deep into the tissues, where a topically applied alkali is unable to reach,

In any case, the amount of venom injected is typically very small (between 5 and 50 micrograms of fluid) and placing large amounts of alkali near the sting site is unlikely to produce a perfectly neutral pH to stop the sting hurting.

Many people do claim benefit from these home remedies but it is doubtful they have any real physical effect on how much a sting hurts or continues hurting, the effect is probably related to rubbing the area or the mind perceiving benefit. Furthermore, none of these interventions have been proven to be effective in scientific studies.


Best remedy is diphenhydramine (Benadryl) either applied topically or taken orally (combination antihystamine as well as local anesthetic), NSAID pain reliever (Aspirin, Ibuprofin), as well as an ice pack.

for wasp stings use bicarbonate of soda.

bee sting use vinegar.