A forward email I got

[USHost247]

Does this really work?

It might be wise to carry a penny in your pocket while working in the
yard.......... BEE STINGS !

A couple of weeks ago, I was stung by both a bee and hornet while
working in the garden.

My arm swelled up, so I went to the doctor. The clinic gave me cream
and an antihistamine. The next day the swelling was getting
progressively worse, so I went to my regular doctor. The arm was
Infected and needed an antibiotic. The doctor told me - " The next
time you get stung, put a penny on the bite for 15 minutes".

That night, my niece was stung by two bees. I looked at the bite and
it had already started to swell. So, I taped a penny to her arm for
15 minutes The next morning, there was no sign of a bite We decided
that she just wasn't allergic to the sting.

Soon, I was gardening outside. I got stung again, twice by a hornet
on my left hand. I thought, here I go again to the doctor for another
antibiotic.

I promptly got my money out and taped two pennies to my bites, then
sat and sulked for 15 minutes. The penny took the sting out of the
bite immediately.

In the meantime the hornets were attacking, and my friend was stung on
the thumb. Again the penny. The next morning I could only see the spot
where the hornet had stung me. No redness, no swelling. My friend's
sting was the same; couldn't even tell where she had been stung.

She got stung again a few days later upon her back---cutting the
grass! And the penny worked once again.

Wanted to share this marvelous information in case you experience the
same problem. We need to keep a stock of pennies on hand.

The doctor said that the copper in the penny counteracts the bite.
It definitely works!

Please remember and pass this information on to your friends,
children, grandchildren.

 

[jamesyfx]

That's a tall story, since bees inject venom when they sting you. You have to remove the stinger and neutralise the venom to remedy a bee sting.

 

[GameSquire]

Just search "Copper cures Bee Stings?" looks like quite a few sites that talked about this exact forwarded e-mail, and say that this cure is fake.

 

[iliveinengland]

Although the above posts say it's fake I'm still going to try it next time I get stung

 

[Deleted member 4320]

Of course it won't work. The coin will most likely be dirty anyway so if anything happens you could probably infect it than cure it. The coin wouldn't be able to extract anything anyway, it's just standard metal.

 

[Felicia]

Interesting, never heard of that before. Of course, I think the person who wrote the e-mail must have bad luck because I've only been stung by a wasp 3 times in my life and never by a bee 😛

 

[GameSquire]

Of course it won't work. The coin will most likely be dirty anyway so if anything happens you could probably infect it than cure it. The coin wouldn't be able to extract anything anyway, it's just standard metal.

That's why you should clean the penny first before tempting this 😛

But still I'm not saying it'll work or not work though, when you do this treatment, tell us if it does work or not.

I never tried (mostly cause I've never got stung) or even heard this treatment before, so don't quote me if it's fake or not, I've just read a couple of sites that says it's fake.

 

[USHost247]

I have only been stung like twice in my life. But, yeah. Clean the penny first.