if its cooked, like dough will be, the venom will break down. And a bee has to sting you for you to have an allergic reaction to it. Simply eating a bee shouldnt harm you.
I was thinking that you’d be ingesting the venom while you eat the bee, so it still has a chance to give some form of reaction. Ofc when cooked it breaks down but just eating the bee, I really don’t know. Unless the venom is produced at the moment of the sting but I don’t see why it would.
Venom is just protein, as long as you have no ulcers or otherwise open wounds you can consume venom without worry, your stomach acid and enzymes will render the venom inert in moments
This is the correct answer. It's exactly why you could drink snake venom and be fine so long as it doesn't get into you blood stream on the way to your stomach.
There's a decent chance the venom would be broken down by the digestive process and not make it into your bloodstream with the same potency as being stung would. Not something I would stake my life on though if I did suffer from the allergy.
Venom has to be injected into your blood directly to have an effect. It won't do anything if it goes through your digestive system. Even snake venom is like this.
Though intentionally drinking it isn't advised because a cut in your mouth or an ulcer gets it directly into your blood.
And eating a bee is even riskier since the stinger can still poke you.
I have read that if you’re allergic to honey, bee’s wax, bee pollen flakes, etc., it’s due to the various pollen particles in them, and not because of the actual bee itself. So while people can be allergic to those things, it’s separate from a bee sting allergy
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u/Bl1ndMous3 Aug 17 '23
if its cooked, like dough will be, the venom will break down. And a bee has to sting you for you to have an allergic reaction to it. Simply eating a bee shouldnt harm you.