Hello Marshall, The main active ingredient in most ant venom is formic acid. There are probably other agents in the mix, depending on the ant species.
A paste of baking soda applied topically has been said by many---including my mother, to help. I never tried it because...what do old people know that a teenager needs to heed? Recently, I have seen advertised a hand-held battery powered device that is claimed to relieve many insect stings; I cannot recall if ants were mentioned, but wasps were. The device that I remember was about the size and shape of a goose egg; you turn it on and apply it to the site. It destroys the venom by heat. I surmised that you could simply heat up a smooth rock to the point that it was hot, but not hot enough to burn, and place it on the sting with the same results. JOH -----Original Message----- From: Marshall Dudley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: CS>Fire Ants We found a strange ant hill on my son's property a month ago. I called the agriculteral extension office to ask them about it, and they sent a crew out immediately to kill them. they found a half dozen other hills and poisoned them as well. They said they were fire ant hills. Anyway, does anyone know if nutrasweet kills fire ants? I can't test it since they seem to all be dead now. Also, what is best to use on a fire ant sting? CS, onion? Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
