Natural Remedies against insect bites

• Put a piece of aloe vera) opened with the fleshy part in contact with the bite or sting. This will relieve pain, reduce swelling and acts as an antiseptic. It can be left for several hours and if the trouble persists, you can change every certain time.

• Place a slice of raw onion or onion juice on the affected area to relieve pain and reduce the risk of infection.

• Make a poultice of clay (to make a cookies ground water) in the affected area immediately after the bite or sting occurs. This will help relieve pain and reduce swelling.

• Make a poultice of garlic with onions in ant bites.

• Soak a piece of cotton soaked in lemon juice and vinegar and apply it as compress on wasp stings.

• Cover the bite or sting with a banana peel. The wet and fleshy part has to be in contact with the affected area. When dry it should be changed by a new one.

• calendula cream also helps reduce swelling.

Animals annoying in summer

Children have very different attitudes compared to animals. At about love and leaving others running, but none of them is immune to suffer a bad experience.

Bites from dogs and cats: The bites of domestic animals do not cause serious damage if the animal is vaccinated against rabies. If this information is unknown, we must wash the wound immediately with plenty of soap and water to remove all traces of saliva that was able to stop the aggressor and urgently go to the hospital to perform the cure for the doctor and evaluate the need for a reinforcement antitetanus.

Snakebites: There is a very large number of poisonous snakes. Faced with a bite reptile (certainty is the footprint of two separate punctures), you have to put at rest to the child, reassure and immobilize the affected part. Disinfect the wound and put a band of about 10 centimeters, which slightly compress the member, above the bite, loosen 30 seconds every 10 minutes and you have to monitor pulse under the band.

If possible, apply cold, as it decreases the spread of poison and dampens inflammation. We need to alert the police to indicate which school has the poison antidote, and transfer the child to the hospital urgently.

Scorpion bite and spiders: always act immediately. Immobilize the wounded, and apply a cold compress band constrictor that superficial venous circulation, but not deep. Can be given an ointment with steroids and antihistamines, while the transport to the hospital and also give children an analgesic, which calms the child.

Bee and wasp: When a bee stings, you should remove the stinger with tweezers and then put ointment antihistamines. If the stings are multiple, occur in the mouth or you have allergies, you should go immediately to the hospital.

If this is a sting in isolation, there will be pressure to the wound area (like a pimple) to quit the poison or sting. Relieve pain by applying cold water and baking soda. Clean and disinfect the wound.

What to do before the aggression of a dog

A bite of a dog, is always considered a dirty wound. So, basically when this happens, you should wash the wound with soap and water or disinfectant neutral as the first instance.

If the wound too much blood, we can cover with a clean cloth and wet.

But basically in all cases, although this is minor injuries, and the sooner, we have to hit emergency, where in addition to cure it, you bring vaccines.

If necessary, then the dog will be quarantined. In the case of a vagabond dog, which probably is not vaccinated, the kennel will locate and bring the animal.

As for the injured person, which will reassure and give affection, especially if it involves a child, since it is of utmost importance that can overcome the shock, and that there is any trace of him when confronted with other animals these characteristics.

Ricinus Communis Dorstenia Brasiliensis

This specie whose name scientist is Dorstenia Brasiliensis, is a perennial grass of little size, acaule, rizomatoso-tuberose. The whole plant gives off very similar odor to that of the communio fig.

He/she has sheets in short number, prepared in rosette; being of oval sheet and cordada in the base, from 3 to 5 centimeters long generally of edge crenado, of consistency subcoriacea, raw in the higher face. Long petiole from 1 to 5 centimeters.

He/she has very petty, masculine and feminine flowers blended in the holder of the inflorescence; the first with two long stamens 1 millimeter more or less; the feminine ones have style bífido; both have bare perianto, composed by 2 segments soldered the feminine ones to each other, and of 4 segments the masculine ones.

The fructified holder measures from 1 to 3 centimeters of diameter. It flourishes and it fructifies they give the months of September and October.

It is a South American plant that he/she inhabits Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.

In Uruguay it is in stony fields, hills and mountains with enough frequency, being less frequent in the coast platense.

Their relatively thick roots and the whole plant, they contain lightly aromatic substances and of acerbic flavor.

The infusion of the root, in the proportion of 10 grams in a liter of water, is toned and antifebrífuga; in more proportion it is emenagoga.

It has also been used in the typhoid fevers and still against the dysentery.

Many use the juice of their sheets and also the root mashed as remedy applying them on bites of snakes and stings of insects and of scorpion.