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From: "Richard Spiekhout" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: Stings and local reactions


>Mr. Omar Jassim, a forth year medical student I believe, gave a
> lecture on bee sting reactions. He said that large local reactions
>can occur up to 7 days later.

This is very surprisingly correct, my grand son was
helping me a month ago. He was stung in two places,
we put on the stings "sting be gone" he had no swelling
or itching it looked fine. However a week later all
reactions of the stings showed up, the swelling, the
pain, and the itching.

+Fr. Athanasios