hello everyone my name is dr. Dave I'm a
licensed podiatrist I would like to
thank you for watching my video on my
frugal foot YouTube channel if you enjoy
these videos please don't forget to
subscribe well last week I wanted to put
out a video but I was doing some long
work and I accidentally got stung by
three horns one of the back of my thigh
and then one on the inside and one on
the outside of my right ankle now
anytime that someone is stung by a bee a
wasp or Hornet there's obviously concern
for anaphylaxis at anaphylaxis is a
severe allergic reaction when your
airway can shut it's a very common
allergy and it's something that needs to
be taken very seriously and if this ever
happens to you and you find it that you
can't you can't breathe you need to
contact 911
you might even have an EpiPen because
you're aware of these reactions and that
needs to be administered right away in
my situation I don't have that kind of
allergy and so the treatment that I
provided for myself was the standard
rest ice compression elevation and I
also wanted to make certain that my
tetanus was up to date and in my
situation I had a little bit of redness
that was occurring around my ankle and
so I got on the appropriate antibiotic
but after that was all done and actually
one other thing that I did take was a
benadryl event that antihistamine really
helped to control some of the swelling
that initially happened but after the
acute phase was all over after a day or
two I really found that I was suffering
from a lot of itching around the bite
sites it was really really bad and I
found a product that I wanted to share
with you because this was amazing
it's called extra-strength benadryl itch
stopping gel my wife turned me on to
this and so I grabbed it out of this out
of the medicine cabinet and started
applying it and it within five minutes
the skin was so calm from the itching it
was amazing so it is useful not just for
insect bites but also for poison ivy or
poison oak or sunic mosquito bites
sunburn and it says minor cuts and
scrapes the important thing to
to understand about the product is that
you don't want to use this in addition
to taking the oral antihistamine
benadryl or any other kind of
antihistamines it's one or the other you
don't want to use this product on large
portions of your body you don't want to
use this for chickenpox or visa 'ls and
if your symptoms worsen or don't get
better after seven days of use you
should definitely contact your doctor
and I've been using it pretty much every
day for the past three or four days and
it has really quelled the itching
dramatically and it lasts quite a while
I can go without itching for probably
four or five hours before I start to
feel it again and then you can apply it
several times a day just make sure that
you read the directions on the back of
the of the container so but it's extra
strength benadryl itch itch stopping gel
but something that you can pick up into
your pharmacy and you can also get it
online I'll leave a link to the product
below the video in case is something
that you want to check out yourself
thanks for watching if you enjoyed the
video please give it a thumbs up I'm dr.
Dave and I'll see you in the next video