Can Cause Systemic Reactions If Not Immediately Overcome, Here's Quick Handling When Bitten By Fire Ants

JAKARTA - Fire ants bite occurs when an aggressive type of venomous ants stings your skin. Bites hurt, itching, and usually hit your feet and foot soles. Rarely, exposure causes life-threatening reactions.

Fire ants are red. The size ranges from 1 millimeter (mm) to 5 mm. Meanwhile, the queen of the ants can reach a size of 15 mm. This ant has six legs and two jaws are clamped out of its head. In addition, it has poison bags and poles on the back.

Hot ants usually occur when someone accidentally steps on the ground area where the insect is alive. Symptoms often occur in the skin of the legs, ankles, and open legs. Fire ants can also attack animals, including pets.

Contact with hot ant nests will encourage many ants to crowd and attack and bite open skin. When biting, a fire tent attaches its jaw to the skin. Then, curling back and stabbing it in your skin, injecting poison. These ants can sting several times at once, moving in a circular direction, sometimes, giving seven or eight stings. Ants can sting repeatedly unless you kill them or remove them from the skin.

Symptoms of fire ants bite occur gradually, launching Cleveland, Monday, January 20:

Some people can even experience more severe reactions:

Local reactions: Local reactions involve symptoms in the same body part but outside the bite site. For example, one sting in the calf can cause swelling across the lower leg. Local reactions usually last a few days.

Systemic reactions: The whole body can react to stings. Symptoms can include stomach cramps, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, swollen tongue, or difficulty breathing or swallowing.

Anaphylaxis: Rarely occurs, fire ants bite can cause anaphylaxis, severe and life-threatening allergic reactions. Symptoms include dizziness, decreased blood pressure, loss of consciousness and/or heart attacks.

You can treat the bite of lightest fire ants at home with the following steps:

More serious systemic or anaphylaxis reactions may require:

Hot ants are venomous insects that are aggressive and pungent. These insects cause painful and very itching bentols that turn into lepuh. Although rare, fire ants can cause life-threatening reactions. Immediately seek medical help if you experience any systemic symptoms.