Cyclist swallowed bee that stung his throat causing death

A 59-year-old cyclist made his last two-wheel ride last Sunday when a bee accidentally entered his mouth and stung him in the throat. causing him a cardiopulmonary arrest which resulted in his death.

The man is a neighbor of Algemesí, a municipality in the Valencian Community (Spain) and that Sunday he was accompanied by a group of cyclists along one of the routes most used by sports fans to cross the Ribera Alta and the Baixa.

According to local media the man allegedly swallowed the bee while riding a bicycle and when it stung, he had an allergic reaction to the insect’s venom causing paralysis.

The man was helped by the other cyclists but started to have trouble breathing very quickly and although emergency services arrived as quickly as possible to take care of the man they couldn’t do much. -thing.

Local police were also present at the scene, checking that when paramedical units arrived who attempted to save the cyclist’s life, He had already entered cardiopulmonary arrest and the efforts to resuscitate him with various emergency maneuvers were insufficient to allow him to breathe normally again.

The man eventually died before being transferred to a medical facility.

More common than it seems

Even so, serious health incidents caused by bee stings are more common than you might think. Often times they end up producing a very serious or even fatal condition as most people are unaware that they are allergic to the venom of these insects and when they come across them in unexpected places where they tend to build nests. of bees, they cause stings which can be complicated.

In the Valencian Community, where the fatal incident of the cyclist occurred, a similar event occurred just under two years ago, when a neighbor of Moncada, another municipality, He died after being stung by a bee.

The man was 52 years old and was stung in the neck while working in the fields, in an area near bee hives. When the insect bit him, he collapsed from cardiac arrest in an allergic reaction to the venom.

Farmers are usually the most affected by those you encounter with these insects, being recurrent victims of fatal bites. In 2017, for example, another 57-year-old man, this time from Burriana, He died after receiving several wasp stings on his neck and head. He worked for the town’s irrigation union and was bitten while cleaning some of the town’s irrigation ditches.

Another incident occurred in 2016 when an 81-year-old man working in the Massamgrell field died from multiple bee stings.

Although it is not that strange that these deaths occur if it is very bad luck because bees or wasps do not have a deadly poison on their own, the person must be allergic to expose themselves. to death, as she was, without knowing it. , the cyclist in this story.

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