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Onions to soothe stings

If you get stung by a yellow jacket( Wasp, hornet) etc, cut an onion and put it directly on the sting area. Instantly the sting is gone. Any type of green onion will do just fine.

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Onion for yellow jacket stings Comments By: Lily It works. My roomate thought I was crazy when I was bitten yesterday. In her panic she grabbed the bag of potatos instead of the onions but we worked it out. I quickly cut a chunk off the onion and squeezed the juice on to the my finger after removing the stinger with tweezers. From sting to onion was probably less than a minute. After keeping the onion on the site for about 10 minutes I plunged my finger into ice water and took 4 Motrin to counter the inflammation. 24 hours later I have no pain and I am typing this. I have nominal swelling in the finger.