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Urine does not neutralize wasp stings. In fact, urine that is applied to the spot where you have been stung could cause severe infections to develop.

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How has neutralization reactions helped us from bee stings and wasp stings?

Soak a small bit of cotton wool in apple cider vinegar and place it on the wasp sting whilst applying a small amount of pressure. The acidity of the vinegar helps neutralise the wasp venom.


Why do use vinegar to treat wasp stings?

It is a fallacy that you can neutralise wasp venom with vinegar. It came from people believing wasp venom was alkaline: in fact it isn't, it is chemically pretty well neutral. Vinegar is known to have some soothing action for certain skin conditions, but I think with wasp stings a lot of it is a placebo effect.


Can you give 3 examples of neutralisation in the home?

if you put vinegar on wasp stings it will help because wasp stings have alkali in it and vinegar is a weak acid but bee stings are different they are acidic so if you put toothpaste on it it will help (try not to get bee stings mixed up with wasp stings because it will hurt even more if you put toothpaste on wasp stings or vinegar on bee stings)


Why is lime a good practice for wasp sting sand calamine lotion a good practice for bee stings?

A wasp sting and a bee sting have different properties and therefore need different treatments to neutralize the sting.


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How acids and alkalis treat wasp stings?

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