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I received this in an email recently:

This information may be something to remember, as the season is

here again...

It might be wise to carry a penny in your pocket while working in the

yard.......... BEE STINGS !

A couple of weeks ago, I was stung by both a bee and hornet while

working in the garden.

My arm swelled up, so I went to the doctor. The clinic gave me cream

and an antihistamine. The next day the swelling was getting

progressively worse, so I went to my regular doctor. The arm was

Infected and needed an antibiotic. The doctor told me - " The next time

you get stung, put a penny on the bite for 15 minutes".

That night, my niece was stung by two bees. I looked at the bite and

it had already started to swell. So, I taped a penny to her arm for 15

minutes. The next morning, there was no sign of a bite. We decided that

she just wasn't allergic to the sting.

Soon, I was gardening outside. I got stung again, twice by a hornet on

my left hand. I thought, here I go again to the doctor for another

antibiotic.

I promptly got my money out and taped two pennies to my bites, then

sat and sulked for 15 minutes. The penny took the sting out of the bite

immediately.

In the meantime the hornets were attacking, and my friend was stung on

the thumb. Again the penny. The next morning I could only see the spot

where the hornet had stung me. No redness, no swelling. My friend's

sting was the same; couldn't even tell where she had been stung.

She got stung again a few days later upon her back---cutting the grass!

And the penny worked once again.

Wanted to share this marvelous information in case you experience the

same problem. We need to keep a stock of pennies on hand.

The doctor said that the copper in the penny counteracts the bite.

As an addendum, remember that the plants that we consider a weed and are named Plantain, the ones that grow in alleys and up- through asphalt are also great to use to suck the poison out if a penny is not handy.

It definitely works!