Dog and bee question

[toutsuite]

This is probably a stupid question. I am at my parents house and they have a super sweet dog who gets into everything. We were by their pool a little bit ago and the dog was near me digging. Next thing I know see her run out of this area with tall grass absolutely covered in yellow jackets. She ran over to me as I tried to shoe some away and got stung about five times. My baby wad luckily with my mom who ran towards the front of their house. The dog somehow pushed her way through a door into the house so now their house has a ton of bees buzzing around inside.

The poor dog got stung I can't even guess how many times. I called the vet who was pretty nonchalant about it and gave benadryl. The poor dog clearly is still hurting though. Has anyone else been through this before and found something that made their pet more comfortable?. She is breathing fine so I know it's probably kissy going to be an uncomfortable few days but I feel bad.

[robyn]

Our dog got in to a hive of bees in the ground in our yard a few years ago and had stings on his paws. The vet had us do Benadryl too.

[toutsuite]

Aug 30, 2015 12:48:43 GMT -5 luckydog said:

My dumb poodle mutt unrolled a wasp nest. The vet is right, but it sucks. I bathed her and put baking soda paste on each sting. I think it helped. In trying to remember if we put something topical...I don't think we did but maybe the vet can rec something.

Did you do just like a regular bath or did you do like an oatmeal bath or something special? I hadn't even thought of that but that's a good idea. She's just sitting here whimpering with bees still buzzing all around. What a nightmare!

[toutsuite]

Aug 30, 2015 13:28:18 GMT -5 robyn said:

Our dog got in to a hive of bees in the ground in our yard a few years ago and had stings on his paws. The vet had us do Benadryl too.

She got stung on her paws too. Do you remember how long it took for your dog to get back to normal? Probably a day or two right?. I hope no longer than that... The whimpering and eyes are killing me right now... She keeps licking her paws too.

[whiskeytails]

I rub a tiny bit of this cream on the stung areas to keep the swelling down:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00016XJ8S?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

I also give this to help with pain:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00016XJ8S?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

[whiskeytails]

We have an apple tree in our backyard that the dogs love to visit. They have been stung before many times. See above for treatment. It has taken a couple of hours to a couple of days for swelling to go down and them to feel better.

[robyn]

Aug 30, 2015 14:36:43 GMT -5 toutsuite said:

Aug 30, 2015 13:28:18 GMT -5 robyn said:

Our dog got in to a hive of bees in the ground in our yard a few years ago and had stings on his paws. The vet had us do Benadryl too.

She got stung on her paws too. Do you remember how long it took for your dog to get back to normal? Probably a day or two right?. I hope no longer than that... The whimpering and eyes are killing me right now... She keeps licking her paws too.

A few days I think. We noticed on a Saturday that he was limping, so we put him on crate rest thinking he had hurt himself. He was still limping on Monday morning so DH took him to the vet and the vet found the stings, so we started the Benadryl then. I think he was able to walk better by Wednesday of that week. I remember him licking his paws a lot too, but he had allergy issues so did that anyway. I hope she's feeling better soon, it's so hard because they don't understand why they're hurting

Oh, maybe a bath with aveeno oatmeal bath? Or even a paste made out of that? The soothing properties could help with the stinging. If you have an ecollar I'd try to get a paste on there to take the sting out she use the ecollar to stop her from licking it off for a little bit.

[toutsuite]

Thanks for the recommendations ladies!. We'll give it a try but sounds like it will just be a cocktail of benedryl, oatmeal baths, and time.