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Post by Coolkat on Jun 2, 2021 9:03:33 GMT -8
Have any of you seen this? If so what are your thoughts? I'm open to being wrong but the skeptic in me says that this is all just psychological. www.bugbitething.com/I know what it claims to do in theory. But that same theory for snake bites has been debunked. The only thing I can think of is that snake bites inject their venom much deeper.
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Post by zeke on Jun 2, 2021 9:13:01 GMT -8
Nope, No thank you very much. Same with jellyfish stings. Don't pee on my stings. If I want to treat them that way, I'll do it myself.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jun 2, 2021 9:17:51 GMT -8
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Post by ErnieW on Jun 18, 2021 11:47:05 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2021 16:56:53 GMT -8
interesting! I will definitely try the hot spoon idea.
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Post by rebeccad on Jun 18, 2021 19:50:09 GMT -8
Hot spoon thing sounds like the hot water treatment my husband used to use for poison oak etc. Something about the heat releasing all the histamines at once… it did work, but his MD didn’t think much of the approach when he had a really horrific case of poison oak.
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Post by autumnmist on Jun 19, 2021 9:53:48 GMT -8
Sounds great, but how does the suction really work? I.e., how deep does it really go to withdraw venom or saliva? (Couldn't get any farther b/c the page froze.)
There are so many gimmicks these days....
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Jun 21, 2021 19:24:28 GMT -8
Have that same theory for snake bites has been debunked. The only thing I can think of is that snake bites inject their venom much deeper. It’s thought snake venom travels too quickly for suction devices to be much good (guessing the toxins have been optimized to drop smaller prey more quickly so the eventual meal doesn’t run off too far if I had to apply some amateur night evolutionary theory). Remember a writer for Outside got a rattler bite with full envenomation in a California grassland, right in the saphenous vein (lower leg) they found out later. He almost immediately passed out.
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Post by ErnieW on Jun 22, 2021 5:19:45 GMT -8
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