Luke O'Neill
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24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard today
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So it's making the venom not for you, it's making them for its own way to kill its prey, in a way.
The second thing, though, is they think if you disturb a wasp nest,
They come out and they start stinging things that are damaging the nest.
And us humans would be doing that, wouldn't we?
So maybe the wasp is using the venom to protect its nest, as it were, and fight off things that are coming there, including us humans.
And clearly wasps predate us in evolutionary terms.
We come along, but we would be sensitive to them just like other creatures on Earth, I suppose.
But the main reason they have these venoms is to kill their prey and eat them.
If you do have a wasp sting, wash it carefully.
It'll be sore, but wash away because some of the venom will wash away.
A cold compress is fantastic.
Ice, cold towel or whatever, that will bring down the heat and decrease some of the pain because the inflammation is promoting the pain.
So to decrease the heat of the area, that helps.
And then you can take antihistamines orally or rub them in if you like, and then paracetamol.
That will stop some of the prostaglandins that are being made and that's causing some of the inflammation.
So all these things help.
And then sometimes if it's really bad,
the doctor might give you a steroid cream, because steroids are very anti-inflammatory.
Now the severe end of this, and sadly some people are very sort of reactive to wasp venom, it's called anaphylaxis is the word we use for it.
And that's when all these inflammatory mediators go through the roof, and especially if they're happening in the airways.
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