Multiple Cerebral Infarcts: A Rare and Delayed Presentation of Honeybee Sting Bite
Published: 2023-07-22
Page: 134-137
Issue: 2023 - Volume 6 [Issue 1]
Kasturi Shweshikaa Reddy
Department of Pharm-D, CMR College of Pharmacy, Medchal, Hyderabad, India.
Vankodoth Sireesha *
Department of Pharm-D, CMR College of Pharmacy, Medchal, Hyderabad, India.
Ruthala Lavanya
Department of Pharm-D, CMR College of Pharmacy, Medchal, Hyderabad, India.
Cheppalli Vani
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Chitkara College of pharmacy, Rajpura, Punjab, India.
Gopikrishna lunavath
General Medicine, Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, Telangana, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
In emergencies, we encounter many local and allergic reactions associated with bee stings, but the venom of a bee sting can also cause neurovascular complications very rarely. We here discuss a case of a 53-year-old woman who was stung by a group of bees her on face and back and presented with swelling and itching of the face and 1 episode of Generalised Tonic Clonic Seizures type seizures followed by right upper limb and lower limb weakness 10 hours later. MRI brain revealed multiple acute bilateral frontal, parietal-occipital lobes, and basal ganglia infarcts.
Keywords: Bee sting, generalised tonic-clonic seizures, MRI brain, infarct