A Simple Guide to Poisonous Insect Bites, Diagnosis, Treatment and Related Conditions

By Kenneth Kee

This book describes Poisonous Insect Bites and Stings, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases

Poisonous Insect Bites

Ant Bite

Just recently my daughter was bitten by an ant while washing her dishes.
Her whole hand became swollen and throbbing with pain and turned red in color within 2 hours.
I told her to elevate the hand above the heart and put ice pack on it.
I gave her an injection of antihistamine and steroid and her on antihistamine, pain killers and steroids.
She was given a course if antibiotics in case the wound turned septic.
An antibiotic and steroid cream was also given.
The next day the hand swelling had gone and was no longer red in color.
It showed how poisonous insect bites can be.

Mosquito Bite

2 months ago my wife was bitten in the left calf by a mosquito.
Immediately her skin started to swell up, turned red and warm and very itchy which may her scratch and make the mosquito bite area even more swollen.
Luckily she did not have a fever because with hot weather because we have a quite a few cases of dengue fever from mosquito bite recently.
I told her to stop scratching because that will cause more swelling and infection.
Instead I gave her a course of antihistamine and steroid to take orally and applied cream (antibiotic and steroid) to the insect bite area.
I also bandaged the insect bite area after applying cream to it to prevent her from scratching it.
This at least stopped the scratching and allowed the medicines to take effect and reduce the allergic reaction to it before it becomes infected.

Bee Stings

A few years ago I was called to treat this Filipino maid who was bitten by a large number of bees while walking past their nest.
Together with some of her friends we managed to remove 200 over bee stings from her scalp and neck.
She was lucky that she had no severe allergy reactions from the bee stings.
There have been cases of people (stung by bees) who develop renal failure and died.

There was a case of a girl who was stung by a bee on her forehead which left her with a swollen eyelid.
After treatment with antihistamine and steroid orally and application of cream (antibiotic and steroid) to the eyelid the swelling went down but at the bee sting wound she develop a keloid scar which took me 3 months treatment with keloid cream for it to subside and disappear.
She did not want injection of steroid to the keloid because it was too near to her eye.

Cutaneous Larva Migrans

Recently my niece while walking on the beach of an island in Malaysia developed a bad rash on her left foot.
She thought she was stung by a poisonous insect.
When she saw me there appeared to be some infected rash on her foot.
I treated her with antibiotics and antihistamine to stop the itch.
After one week the infection seems too cleared up but the rash has become snake like.
She suspected that there were worms under her skin and brought a printed sheet about a girl who had the same condition but was cured with liquid nitrogen spray and albendazole.
I decided to prescribe her the same liquid nitrogen spray and medicine.
She did recover with the treatment.
Later I found that the disease can disappear spontaneously without treatment.

Most insect bites and stings activate nothing more than minor discomfort but some reactions can be deadly, particularly if the person has severe allergy.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Chapter 1 Poisonous Insect Bites
Chapter 2 Causes
Chapter 3 Symptoms
Chapter 4 Diagnosis
Chapter 5 Treatment
Chapter 6 Prognosis
Chapter 7 Angioedema
Chapter 8 Bee Stings
Epilogue

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kenneth Kee
• Release date: May 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005935801

Kenneth Kee

Medical doctor since 1972.Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 74However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours inthe afternoon.He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.comThis autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.The later books go into more details of medical disorders.He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) startingwith the Apple computer and going to PC.The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.Dr Kee is the author of:"A Family Doctor's Tale""Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine""Case Notes From A Family Doctor"

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A

Simple

Guide

To

Poisonous Insect Bites,

Diagnosis,

Treatment

And

Related Conditions

By

Dr Kenneth Kee

M.B.,B.S. (Singapore)

Ph.D (Healthcare Administration)

Copyright Kenneth Kee 2022 Smashwords Edition

Published by Kenneth Kee at Smashwords.com

Dedication

This book is dedicated

To my wife Dorothy

And my children

Carolyn, Grace

And Kelvin

This book describes Poisonous Insect Bites, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases which is seen in some of my patients in my Family Clinic.

(What You Need to Treat Poisonous Insect Bites)

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Introduction

I have been writing medical articles for my blog: http://kennethkee.blogspot.com (A Simple Guide to Medical Disorder) for the benefit of my patients since 2007.

My purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of my patients.

Health Education was also my dissertation for my Ph.D (Healthcare Administration).

I then wrote an autobiography account of my journey as a medical student to family doctor on my other blog: http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.com.

This autobiography account A Family Doctor’s Tale was combined with my early A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders into a new Wordpress Blog A Family Doctor’s Tale on http://kenkee481.wordpress.com.

From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 800 eBooks.

Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.

For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.

The later books go into more details of medical disorders.

The first chapter is always from my earlier blogs which unfortunately tends to have typos and spelling mistakes.

Since 2013, I have tried to improve my spelling and writing.

As I tried to bring the patient the latest information about a disorder or illness by reading the latest journals both online and offline, I find that I am learning more and improving on my own medical knowledge in diagnosis and treatment for my patients.

My diagnosis and treatment capability has improved tremendously from my continued education.

Just by writing all these simple guides I find that I have learned a lot from your reviews (good or bad), criticism and advice.

I am sorry for the repetitions in these simple guides as the second chapters onwards have new information as compared to my first chapter taken from my blog.

I also find repetition definitely help me and maybe some readers to remember the facts in the books more easily.

I apologize if these repetitions are irritating to some readers.

Chapter 1

Poisonous Insect Bites

Ant Bite

Just recently my daughter was bitten by an ant while washing her dishes.

Her whole hand became swollen and throbbing with pain and turned red in color within 2 hours.

I told her to elevate the hand above the heart and put ice pack on it.

I gave her an injection of antihistamine and steroid and her on antihistamine, pain killers and steroids.

She was given a course if antibiotics in case the wound turned septic.

An antibiotic and steroid cream was also given.

The next day the hand swelling had gone and was no longer red in color.

It showed how poisonous insect bites can be.

Mosquito Bite

2 months ago my wife was bitten in the left calf by a mosquito.

Immediately her skin started to swell up, turned red and warm and very itchy which may her scratch and make the mosquito bite area even more swollen.

Luckily she did not have a fever because with hot weather because we have a quite a few cases of dengue fever from mosquito bite recently.

I told her to stop scratching because that will cause more swelling and infection.

In stead I gave her a course of antihistamine and steroid to take orally and applied cream (antibiotic and steroid) to the insect bite area.

I also bandaged the insect bite area after applying cream to it to prevent her from scratching it.

This at least stopped the scratching and allowed the medicines to take effect and reduce the allergic reaction to it before it becomes infected.

Bee Stings

A few years ago I was called to treat this Filipino maid who was bitten by a large number of bees while walking past their nest.

Together with some of her friends we managed to remove 200 over beestings from her scalp and neck.

She was lucky that she had no severe allergy reactions from the beestings.

There have been cases of people (stung by bees) who develop renal failure and died.

There was a case of a girl who was stung by a