This is a copy of a post by George Imirie from December regarding allergic
reactions to bee venom. I thought it was remarkable enough to save it.

David Scott
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John: Just got back from 3 week trip and noted your E-mail about allergies
to
stings.

I am in my 65 th year of beekeeping, went into antiphalactic shock 34 years
ago when I got about 70 stings in a few minutes.  Two honeybee sting
SPECIALISTS at Johns Hopkins provided me with the answer: After having bees
then for 31 years, I had become so efficient that I was NOT BEING STUNG
ENOUGH
to maintain a sting immunity.  Treatment: Get stung often, even every day.
I
have done this for the past 34 years, and can get 100 stings all at once
without any effect and no change in blood pressure.

I really HATE to say this, but it is fact so I must so it.  Most allergists,
irrespective of their medical school fame or their own knowledge primarily
treat "hay Fever", and frankly KNOW LITTLE ABOUT HONEYBEE VENOM.

I would suggest you correspond with either Dr. Gulden or Dr. Valentine at
Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore.  They have spent the last 30-40
years doing little more than investigating honey bee sting problems.

Most allergists tell you to "stop beekeeping", because that is the "easy"
way
out for them.  If you are a "true" devotee of apis mellifera, you will hunt
up
Gulden and Valentine.

Good Luck and Happy Holidays


George Imirie