My daughter (14) was bitten on the toe by a scorpion a few weeks ago. Arizona poison control was most helpful. They advised it would be very painful and soon get tingly and numb (it did). You won't always see the sting site, and won't have swelling. The pain and numbness travels up the leg. The worst pain hits at hour six, then it starts to subside. Apply cold water cloths, not ice, and over the counter pain medicine. If the numbness increases until it covers most of the body call them back or seek medical attention, or if nausea sets in. They said there was no danger in sleeping after a sting; the rest will help ease the pain. The pain will linger for 2 days to two weeks. And yes, small children and elderly need special attention. If you get stung, call poison control. They even called back after a few hours to check on us. -----Original Message----- From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of az-geocaching-request@listserv.azgeocaching.com Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:05 PM To: az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com Subject: Az-Geocaching digest, Vol 1 #1819 - 6 msgs Send Az-Geocaching mailing list submissions to az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to az-geocaching-request@listserv.azgeocaching.com You can reach the person managing the list at az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Az-Geocaching digest..." Today's Topics: 1. scorpions (eric) 2. Re: scorpions (David Thompsen) 3. RE: scorpions (RopingThe Wind) 4. Re: scorpions (Gale) 5. RE: scorpions (Delora McAllister) 6. Re: scorpions (Brian - Team A.I.) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:36:53 -0700 From: eric To: az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com Subject: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com what about scorpions... a sting from a scorpion is VERY painful! anyone have any education about this? --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:44:16 -0700 (PDT) From: David Thompsen Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com --0-1491946296-1085517856=:85926 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Not education in the sense of being a medical expert in the field, but I'll throw my .02 worth in. I understand that scorpion stings are much like bee stings -- most people will not die from it, though like bee stings, the severly allergic person can be in major trouble from a sting. I've been bitten twice, about 10 years ago. Once I was asleep, and started having a dream where my arm was really hurting. After a few minutes, I woke up, and my arm hurt like hell. I discovered a scorpion in bed with me. After beating the scorpion to death with my shoe.... (hey you would too)... I had one majorly sore arm from the sting. Could barely move it for 2 days, and took a week before it was 100% again. The second time I got grazed on the toe by a scorpion in my back yard. Barely hurt at all. But I still beat the scorpion to death with my shoe. Obviously the very young and the elderly are much more at risk to problems from stings than the average schmoe, but it ain't fun nonetheless. I guess it helps to know where they hide -- they're ground dwellers, and prefer cool, dark places inside and out. eric wrote: what about scorpions... a sting from a scorpion is VERY painful! anyone have any education about this? ____________________________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger --0-1491946296-1085517856=:85926 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Not education in the sense of being a medical expert in the field, but I'll throw my .02 worth in.
 
I understand that scorpion stings are much like bee stings -- most people will not die from it, though like bee stings, the severly allergic person can be in major trouble from a sting.
 
I've been bitten twice, about 10 years ago.  Once I was asleep, and started having a dream where my arm was really hurting.  After a few minutes, I woke up, and my arm hurt like hell.  I discovered a scorpion in bed with me.  After beating the scorpion to death with my shoe.... (hey you would too)... I had one majorly sore arm from the sting.  Could barely move it for 2 days, and took a week before it was 100% again.
 
The second time I got grazed on the toe by a scorpion in my back yard.  Barely hurt at all.
 
But I still beat the scorpion to death with my shoe.
 
Obviously the very young and the elderly are much more at risk to problems from stings than the average schmoe, but it ain't fun nonetheless.  I guess it helps to know where they hide -- they're ground dwellers, and prefer cool, dark places inside and out.


eric <eric@ccs-adplus.com> wrote:
what about scorpions... a sting from a scorpion is VERY painful!

anyone have any education about this?


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Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger --0-1491946296-1085517856=:85926-- --__--__-- Message: 3 From: "RopingThe Wind" To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:56:53 -0700 Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >From: eric >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >To: az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com >Subject: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions >Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:36:53 -0700 > >what about scorpions... a sting from a scorpion is VERY painful! > >anyone have any education about this? I saw the biggest scorpion I have ever seen in my life (and I have seen alot of them!) while at PANDA77's "Brown Gang Cache" near Black Canyon City. I turned over a large flat rock and between it and the rock under it there was a big ol' scorpion. I dont think I have seen one that big before. Of course, I jumped back a few feet very quickly!! I was talking to PANDA at the time on the phone when I saw it. Someone will surely have more knowledge on scorpion bites... but basically, you would be better off not getting stung by one! Scott Team Ropingthewind _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with the new version of MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 16:11:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Gale Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com --0-221087761-1085526696=:14706 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The bark scorpion is the more venomous one as I recall. It is also the smaller of the scorpions we find around here. David Thompsen wrote:Not education in the sense of being a medical expert in the field, but I'll throw my .02 worth in. I understand that scorpion stings are much like bee stings -- most people will not die from it, though like bee stings, the severly allergic person can be in major trouble from a sting. I've been bitten twice, about 10 years ago. Once I was asleep, and started having a dream where my arm was really hurting. After a few minutes, I woke up, and my arm hurt like hell. I discovered a scorpion in bed with me. After beating the scorpion to death with my shoe.... (hey you would too)... I had one majorly sore arm from the sting. Could barely move it for 2 days, and took a week before it was 100% again. The second time I got grazed on the toe by a scorpion in my back yard. Barely hurt at all. But I still beat the scorpion to death with my shoe. Obviously the very young and the elderly are much more at risk to problems from stings than the average schmoe, but it ain't fun nonetheless. I guess it helps to know where they hide -- they're ground dwellers, and prefer cool, dark places inside and out. eric wrote: what about scorpions... a sting from a scorpion is VERY painful! anyone have any education about this? ____________________________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so: "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!" Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger --0-221087761-1085526696=:14706 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
The bark scorpion is the more venomous one as I recall. It is also the smaller of the scorpions we find around here.
David Thompsen <dthompsen@yahoo.com> wrote:
Not education in the sense of being a medical expert in the field, but I'll throw my .02 worth in.
 
I understand that scorpion stings are much like bee stings -- most people will not die from it, though like bee stings, the severly allergic person can be in major trouble from a sting.
 
I've been bitten twice, about 10 years ago.  Once I was asleep, and started having a dream where my arm was really hurting.  After a few minutes, I woke up, and my arm hurt like hell.  I discovered a scorpion in bed with me.  After beating the scorpion to death with my shoe.... (hey you would too)... I had one majorly sore arm from the sting.  Could barely move it for 2 days, and took a week before it was 100% again.
 
The second time I got grazed on the toe by a scorpion in my back yard.  Barely hurt at all.
 
But I still beat the scorpion to death with my shoe.
 
Obviously the very young and the elderly are much more at risk to problems from stings than the average schmoe, but it ain't fun nonetheless.  I guess it helps to know where they hide -- they're ground dwellers, and prefer cool, dark places inside and out.


eric <eric@ccs-adplus.com> wrote:
what about scorpions... a sting from a scorpion is VERY painful!

anyone have any education about this?


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Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes
  On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:
"Something hidden.  Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --
  "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"
 
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Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger --0-221087761-1085526696=:14706-- --__--__-- Message: 5 From: "Delora McAllister" To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 19:20:10 -0700 Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Any scorpion should be avoided of course, however the "Bark Scorpion" is one of the most poisonous in Az. And size does not necessarily matter..... some of the smaller varieties can pack a more potent sting than the bigger ones. In any event, it would be wise to use gloves or kick over rocks before exploring around them. I myself have not been stung, but I have seen young children who have.The smaller you are, it seems, the more malevolent the effects of the sting can be.Be careful out there on the trails. And KEEP ON CACHIN'. Team Red Dog Peaceloveandgoodhappinessstuff, Trust in God >From: "RopingThe Wind" >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions >Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:56:53 -0700 > > > >>From: eric >>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >>To: az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com >>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions >>Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:36:53 -0700 >> >>what about scorpions... a sting from a scorpion is VERY painful! >> >>anyone have any education about this? > > >I saw the biggest scorpion I have ever seen in my life (and I have seen >alot of them!) while at PANDA77's "Brown Gang Cache" near Black Canyon >City. I turned over a large flat rock and between it and the rock under it >there was a big ol' scorpion. I dont think I have seen one that big before. >Of course, I jumped back a few feet very quickly!! I was talking to PANDA >at the time on the phone when I saw it. > >Someone will surely have more knowledge on scorpion bites... but basically, >you would be better off not getting stung by one! > >Scott >Team Ropingthewind > >_________________________________________________________________ >Express yourself with the new version of MSN Messenger! Download today - >it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > >____________________________________________________________ >Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com >To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: >http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > >Arizona's Geocaching Resource >http://www.azgeocaching.com _________________________________________________________________ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/ --__--__-- Message: 6 From: "Brian - Team A.I." To: Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 19:39:02 -0700 Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com One of the 'glowing' highlights of the Halloween Radioactive event was all the scorpions we found under blacklight along the perimeter of the park itself. In probably a 30' area, I think we spotted >6 of them roaming around, and made enough ruckus that they found elsewhere to hide so the kids attending weren't threatened (as much). Brian Team A.I. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Delora McAllister" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:20 PM Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions > Any scorpion should be avoided of course, however the "Bark Scorpion" is one > of the most poisonous in Az. And size does not necessarily matter..... some > of the smaller varieties can pack a more potent sting than the bigger ones. > In any event, it would be wise to use gloves or kick over rocks before > exploring around them. I myself have not been stung, but I have seen young > children who have.The smaller you are, it seems, the more malevolent the > effects of the sting can be.Be careful out there on the trails. And KEEP ON > CACHIN'. > Team Red Dog > > > > Peaceloveandgoodhappinessstuff, > Trust in God > > > > > > >From: "RopingThe Wind" > >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > >To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > >Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions > >Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:56:53 -0700 > > > > > > > >>From: eric > >>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > >>To: az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com > >>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] scorpions > >>Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:36:53 -0700 > >> > >>what about scorpions... a sting from a scorpion is VERY painful! > >> > >>anyone have any education about this? > > > > > >I saw the biggest scorpion I have ever seen in my life (and I have seen > >alot of them!) while at PANDA77's "Brown Gang Cache" near Black Canyon > >City. I turned over a large flat rock and between it and the rock under it > >there was a big ol' scorpion. I dont think I have seen one that big before. > >Of course, I jumped back a few feet very quickly!! I was talking to PANDA > >at the time on the phone when I saw it. > > > >Someone will surely have more knowledge on scorpion bites... but basically, > >you would be better off not getting stung by one! > > > >Scott > >Team Ropingthewind > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Express yourself with the new version of MSN Messenger! Download today - > >it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > > >____________________________________________________________ > >Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > >To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > >http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > > >Arizona's Geocaching Resource > >http://www.azgeocaching.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN > Premium! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/ > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com > --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com End of Az-Geocaching Digest