Handy tips for parents when bugs bite their children


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Children often playing outdoors are bound to step on a bee or wasp eventually. — Photos: CHRISTIN KLOSE/dpa

WHEN it’s warm outside, playgrounds and gardens are abuzz with romping children. They’re also abuzz with insects, whose painful bites or stings can pull the plug on play. If your child pays the price for stepping on a wasp or grabbing at a bee, it will help, of course, to give them words of comfort and dry their tears. But you can do more.

A paediatrician and pharmacist answer some questions about kids’ insect bites and stings that may have been bugging you.

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