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NEURITIS OCCURRING AFTER INSECT STINGS

1960; American Medical Association; Volume: 173; Issue: 15 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1960.73020330011014

1538-3598

Norman Goldstein,

Healthcare and Venom Research

Although allergic reactions to the stings of bees and wasps have been recorded on a number of occasions, these reactions usually were exaggerations of the common local response, urticaria, or a reaction of an anaphylactic type. Perlman 1 reviewed the literature and reported seven cases of "nearfatal allergic reactions to bee and wasp stings." Less common is the development of neuritis after the sting of an insect. Ross 2 reported that allergy to honeybee stings may result in the clinical picture of peripheral neuritis. Petechiae may be found in the central nervous system when reaction to the sting of an insect is followed by death. 3 Cerebral edema, intraventricular hemorrhage, and meningeal hyperemia also have been reported after death from such a sting. 4 Presumably, similar changes may take place in cranial or peripheral nerves, leading to neuritis, although histological evidence for this supposition is lacking. Because of the scarcity