What if it is red, swollen and itchy after being bitten by "arthropod" ants? What kind of medicine is applied to reduce swelling and stop itching?

Sometimes playing outdoors, accidentally bitten by ants, after being bitten by ants will appear red, swollen and itchy, many people do not know what the solution is, I will tell you next.

Ant is a kind of insect, alias ant, Xuanju, Kunji, mayfly, belongs to the phylum Arthropoda, Insecta, Hymenoptera, Formicidae. There are many species of ants. It is known that there are more than 11700 species in the world, including 21 subfamilies and 283 genera.

Treatment after ant bite

1. Ants will secrete formic acid after biting. You can apply soapy water or 3% Mui 10% ammonia to the bite area, and rinse with clean water after 5% Mele 10% sodium bicarbonate solution, repeated several times.

2. Itching and swelling at the bite site can be relieved by topical ointment containing steroids or oral antihistamines.

3. When you have special reactions after being bitten by ants (such as systemic itching, urticaria, facial redness and swelling, dyspnea, chest pain, rapid heartbeat, etc.), you must see a professional dermatologist or allergy specialist as soon as possible.

Prevention and treatment

1. Pay attention to personal and environmental hygiene and change quilts frequently. Kill ants, bedbugs, fleas, lice and other insects. Once symptoms are found, medication should be used in a timely manner.

2. Do not drink alcohol and eat stimulating food, and go to the suburbs or parks less.

3. Straw mats should be washed and dried to reduce the number of insects hidden in them and the possibility of insect bites.

4. After burning the eggshell and grinding it into powder, sprinkle it in the corner of the wall or near the ant's nest, which can kill the ant. There are ants on the closet, can put some coriander, celery and other flavored vegetables, can drive ants. Put some walnut leaves or cut tobacco and pepper in places where ants are often haunted, which can play a role in expelling ants.

Ant living habits

1. Housing: ants generally build nests underground, and the scale of underground nests is very large. It has good drainage and ventilation measures. Ordinary worker ants are responsible for building nests. Most of the entrances and exits are arched mounds with a hole in the middle like a volcano. Second, there are holes for ventilation, and each room in the nest has a clear classification. Warm and moist soil is their favorite. They usually live in dry areas, but little is known that they can barely survive in water for two weeks.

two。 Lifespan: ants have a long lifespan, workers can survive for weeks to years, and queens can survive for years or even ten years. An ant nest can grow in one place for 1 to 10 years. But most newborn queens die!

3. Eating habits: ants have the following simple eating habits:

Meat, omnivorous, vegetarian, vegetarian.

Meat: it is best to take insects as the main food, the species of pure carnivorous ants are less in the proportion of ants, but each kind of carnivorous ants have different food preferences, so not all insects can be used as food for all carnivorous ants. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the kind of insect that the ant likes to eat, otherwise it will often mistakenly think that there is enough food, but the ant will not eat or starve to death, so if you cannot prepare the food that the ant likes, it will be very frustrating to raise it.

Omnivorous and carnivorous: there are more omnivorous and carnivorous ants in proportion, and they can also eat meat or vegetarian. however, it is usually easier to attract them by eating meat, and they are almost not picky about insects. In addition to insects as food, it can also be fed with animal protein. Examples of available foods are as follows: carnivorous and dead insects, plus fruit and honeydew. When feeding, you can feed insects, fish (raw), cooked pork, cooked chicken and so on.

Omnivorous and vegetarian: there is a lot of overlap between omnivorous and carnivorous ant species. the only difference is that when insect carcasses and sweets appear at the same time, omnivorous and vegetarian ants are more likely to be attracted by sweets.

Vegetarian: the proportion of vegan ant species in all ant species is small, and some ants only eat some special plants or fruit juices. Like foreign leaf-cutting ants, they bring leaves back to their nests to plant fungi and take fungi as the only food. So raising this kind of ants is the same as raising pure carnivorous ants, you must first make sure that the food is ready, otherwise it will be very frustrating.

4. Food intake: the key point is "do not feed too much", especially the kind of ants that move as much food as they have and then go back to the nest to enjoy it slowly. if they are fed too much, it is easy to cause the food to expire and become moldy and spoilage in the nest. it is more likely to attract worms dominated by rotten food to live in, and it will be harmful to watch when they breed in the nest, and if there are too many insects, it may also endanger the safety of ant larvae. In addition, if the food comes from an insect, it is possible to grow parasites or mites that have previously laid eggs on the food, and the mites will reproduce like a plague in the nest and attach to each ant and larva, and the parasitized ants may be occupied by multiple mites at the same time, usually not for long. This also causes a fatal crisis for the whole community.

5. Know the way: ants are swarm insects and live in groups, each of which has its own home. Most ants' homes are below the ground, where it is not easy for them to find abundant food. When the weather is sunny and warm, we often see teams of ants crawling on the ground. If you look carefully, or when you sprinkle some bread crumbs in front of it, you will see that when they arrive at the food site, they will begin to carry the delicacies you have prepared for them. If an ant cannot be moved, two, three, or more ants will come up together to carry it together. When they get the food, they will crawl back home in an orderly way and drag the food back to storage for future meals. That's what pheromones do.