What happens if you get a bee in your lung?

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:58 pm

Lets say ur walking down the street and while ur sucking in a breath....

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Can this happen?
What would you do?!?!?

VonVulcan · Post by **VonVulcan** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:59 pm

LOL, are you serious?

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:06 am

IT ALMOST HAPPENED!!!

Lobber · Post by **Lobber** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:21 am

You would choke it up long before it reached the lung.

But it has happened to some people attacked by killer bees. And having bees in their lungs was the least of their worries.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:31 am

Nice drawing! It looks like etch-a-sketch!

Anyway, to answer your question, it is highly unlikely you would ever inhale a bee, because you could only do it through your open mouth, and it would have to enter your trachea without touching any part of your mouth or throat first.

There is a cough and gag reflex which will prevent you inhaling almost anything. The system is very good; it has had millions of years of on-the-job training.

However, I believe your question does not really mean CAN you do it, but what happens if it occurs anyway. The lungs aren't big bags of air, and they collapse as you breath out. Most likely, you will simply cough until the bee is expelled. Coughing is a very powerful method of expelling things from the lungs. It's why you cough!

Would the bee sting your lungs? Possibly, and a wasp might sting you repeatedly if it became lodged in your lungs - before it died. This is unlikely to be any more dangerous than getting stung normally, but your breathing won't be 100% until the swelling subsides.

The cilia are your next line of defense, and they will slowly dislodge many things caught in your lungs. Larger things which get truly stuck (a piece of steak has been recorded) get attacked by the immuno-defense system, and it will try to build a sac around the item, to isolate it from the lungs. In this case, it caused horrendous halitosis for 3 years until surgery removed the encased rotting flesh.

TigerRaptor · Post by **TigerRaptor** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:36 am

Looks more like a hairless nut sack.

TIGERassault · Post by **TIGERassault** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:54 am

TigerRaptorFX wrote:Looks more like a hairless nut sack.

That is NOT where I would like a bee to be in.

DKnight · Post by **DKnight** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:35 am

LOL... Craziness.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:27 am

omg, this goes in teh nhb !!!!1!!111111

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:37 pm

What you do is swallow that spider behind JMEaT's clock. Of course, you'll have to get rid of the spider too so you'll have to borrow roid's cat.

I'm NOT even going to bring up how to get rid of the cat.

d3jake · Post by **d3jake** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:51 pm

TIGERassault wrote:
TigerRaptorFX wrote:Looks more like a hairless nut sack.
That is NOT where I would like a bee to be in.

I *really* don't want to know how it would get in there.... One wild night I guess...

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:02 pm

im getting the impression that this is more of a stupid post than a 'global issue'....

What happens if you get a bee in your lung?

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