The contact with caterpillars can draw away lesions of annoyance, especially for the processionary caterpillars of the pine. By entering the human skin, their chitinous hair causes prurigineuses dermatosises. Symptoms (prurit, conjunctivitis, cough, anaphylaxie) happen during promenades in forest, (pines) in the infested regions. It is necessary to insist...

Common noun of cockroaches. These are insects very allergisants, but they do not sting. published in www.medecine-et-enfance.net

These are insects (Bombus) with hirsute body and with annulated abdomen of the family of Apid s. Different kinds, B. terrestris, B. lapidarins and B. agrorum live in small groups. In normal conditions, they seldom sting. There is animal husbandry of bumblebees used for the pollination of cultures. In...

It is the larva of a red dust mite, the trombidion. This small larva, long only of 1 mm, pricks the man and the vertebrates with hot blood. Injection is responsible for deep itches. Circumstances: the summer, during promenades in fields or wood. The treatment links the application of dermocortico des and...

The spiders belong to the order of arachnids, as the scorpions. Among 40000 kinds of listed spiders, the number of dangerous kinds for the man does not exceed the dozen. It is, especially of Mygales (800 kinds) and of Loxosceles (75 kinds), who produce a very toxic venom. These spiders not...

The dust mites belong to Arthropods Ch lic rates (ch lic res endowed with sometimes venomous even hooks). There are more than 30 000 kinds. The dust mites of the dust of home, the leaders of which are D. pteronyssinus and D. farinae, do not sting, but are very allergisants. There are two orders of dust mites...

Identify the stinging insect (the honeybee leaves the sting in the skin). Put the end of an aglow cigarette in 1 or 2 cm of the point of injection in order to support a temperature of 60 C during some minutes. Take the sting Away with the aid of an aspivenin or of a tweezers. Disinfect and put one...

The stinging insects, they are first of all hym nopt res, wasps and honeybees, often responsible for allergic reactions. At every individual, an injection of honeybee or of wasp causes a pain and, at the end of some hours, a local inflammatory reaction of a lower diameter to 5 cm, more important in regions...