Sunday morning/afternoon I was pulling up some ragwort before they cut the fields for hay. I went to lie down for a minute as it was warm and I inadvertently lay on an ants nest, brown ants, result? I was walking down the field to go inside to get a drink, about 10 mins later, and I felt tons of creepy crawlies all over my back and a horrible biting, painful it was, I walked fast to the house and changed my clothes, but my backbone just before my neck and the skin around it felt numb. I then forgot all about it, as I had gotten rid of them, but later on in the evening I was in so much angony with it irritating and itching me, I had a look and there were a few bite marks on my shoulder, tons on my chest and a few on my side. I have been dousing with witch hazel and it helps, but do I use the horsefly bite stuff which you suggested and would it help? I understand ants bites are similar to that of the horsefly, and just as irritating, could they get infected? These were brown ants. I read that they only left red marks? I also read that when they bite they spray acid over the wound, which is what probably made me feel numb. I also felt ants crawling out of my hair too. Yuck!
Topic: Bitten by ants! (Read 1638 times)
