If a bee stung you in the back of the throat, is there anything you can do to keep from asphyxiating when it starts to swell?

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  2. Taliafaery Avatar

    If they are fine, take a Benadryl and go to urgent care. Especially if you don’t know if this person has a bee allergy. If they are having any issue breathing at all – emergency room. This is not something to mess with.

  3. GotMyOrangeCrush Avatar

    An emergency tracheotomy (or cricothyrotomy) would ideally need to be performed in a hospital setting. However in an extreme circumstance such as a battlefield or if someone was in the middle of nowhere, this could save someone’s life.

    https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/tracheostomy/about/pac-20384673#: