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What happens if a bee's stinger is left in your skin?

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Others have already provided good, useful answers. If the stinger remains in your skin, nothing much will happen except that you will get a slightly more “severe” sting, with possibly more “venom” pumped into your body. read more

If the stinger remains in your skin, nothing much will happen except that you will get a slightly more “severe” sting, with possibly more “venom” pumped into your body. As noted, the stinger stays in your skin because it has a small barb. read more

Bee stings are very common, and can cause serious reactions to a minority of people who happen to be allergic to their venom. Removing the stinger as quickly as possible helps to decrease the amount of venom that is released, and also helps to remove a foreign body from your body that contains bacteria and is a focus of inflammation as your body tries to remove it. read more

If the bee left a stinger behind, you would see it. Only a few species of bees have barbed stingers that stick to the skin. A few yellow jackets also have small barbs on their stingers, but they're not big enough to catch in the skin. read more

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