Comments About Our Fire Ant Bite Home Remedies

There are many home remedies for fire ant bites. Read what people who have tried them have said.

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Worcestershire Sauce

Hello,

My daughter just called from Girls Camp in Houston (5:33 am) being awoken by several ant bites/stings on her hands while sleeping.

We FORGOT to send her with our home remedy that we use with nearly 100% success - Worcestershire Sauce. As you noted, the sooner the better.

I found your site on the internet and read her some other solutions. I appreciate the information from your site. From your request, I thought I'd share a "testimonial" about the remedy that works for us ... it probably works because it contains several of the home remedy items on your list.

We've noticed the quicker you apply it the better.

True experience (2 years ago) I had a friend who's 7-9 month old baby was set down near some tree branches on the ground where there happened to a fire ant pile. After a PRAYER of the parent, I got a frantic phone call for help with the baby SCREAMING in the background. I got to their house about 7 minutes later with a bottle of Worcestershire sauce. He had bites all over his body but mostly on his torso, legs, and feet. I imagine he had more than 200-300 bites/stings. Every 1 - 2" square on his body had about 10 stings.

We found some children's Benadryl and gave that to the baby. At the same time, we took off the diaper of the baby and sat him in a large bowl. We then took paper towels and laid them over the baby and poured the Worcestershire sauce over his legs, feet, etc. wherever he was bitten. Soaking the paper towel allowed the solution to stay in contact with his skin which we assume neutralizes the venom. He was also sitting in the extra sauce as it ran off his body. We used almost a full bottle. (Generally, it only takes less than a quarter cup). Once we put some all over his body for about 10 minutes, they took him to the ER. It was packed, so they left the hospital and went to an urgent care facility for some stronger anti-histamine and cream. I'm sure this was also beneficial.

True to the recovery that we've experienced, he had the red marks but they were not itchy. He looked like he'd had a bad case of the chicken pocks. There were only 5 - 7 bites that he itched and became bothersome. These were between toes. We think that we probably missed those areas with the sauce.

I have found, if you can put the sauce on in the first minute or two from getting bitten, the bump will go away. The longer you wait, the red and bump may stay, but it will not sting or itch anymore.

I have not tried this after several hours. I don't know about that.

Thanks again for your information. I hope this "testimonial" helps too.

A Family from Texas

Dishwashing Liquid

My husband rubbed dishwashing liquid on my foot about 15 min after getting bit a bunch of times and it worked. There is no more stinging and my foot feels wayyyyyyy better. Thanks for the advice.

I also did the hydrocortisone creme for a couple of days after and that helped, too.

Christine

Tried It All

Hello, my name is Brandy. Two days ago my 4 yr old stepped in a huge FireAnt pile in the backyard. I looked up your site and tried the Hydrocortisone Cream, ice and Benadryl. His foot was so swollen he could not walk and we were unable to count the bites. Anyway, we instantly applied the Cortisone cream and gave Benadryl. Elevated the foot above chest level and put ice on it. By morning, all the bites had pus risen to the surface. We popped the bites to release the toxins, sprayed peroxide on them all and let them dry. After they dried, we applied more cream - gave another dose of Benadryl - elevated the foot and applied ice again. We did this every 6 hours. As of today, the foot is not swollen anymore and he can walk on it. We counted the bites and he was bitten 24 times. Some were so huge I'd be willing to say they were areas of multiple bites in one location. Anyway, we are still repeating the exact same process and the bites look great. I'm sure in another day or so we will be back to normal minus the red spots where the bites are. Thank you for being specific in what you posted except that I really think in cases like mine - if you don't pop the pus bubbles the foot does not seem to lessen as far as the swelling goes. That first night we didn't pop the pus bubbles cause your site said not to since u risk infection, but my husband was in the Infantry and said you have to release those toxins. Either way, I chose to pop them and it helped us dramatically. Thank you again.

Brandy