Over the past many years, wacky trends have taken over the world. People are following bizarre alternative treatments just because of it's popularity on social media and end up harming themselves in the process.
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Acupuncture, one of the unconventional treatments that is meant to enhance well being went all wrong. A 55-year-old woman from Spain died after undergoing a process that involves getting stung by bees. She attended sessions of apitherapy every four weeks for two years without any allergic reactions before.
Apitherapy is an alternative style of medicine involving honeybees or the substances they produce ¨C once a month for two years to treat stress and muscle tightness.?
However, she suffered an anaphylactic shock from the bee venom and went into coma followed by multiple organ failure leading to her death.
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Actor Gerard Butler himself has admitted in the past that he suffered life-threatening consequences of bee sting therapy. Apitherapy includes use of substances like honey, propolis and royal jelly coming from honey bees and using venom kills the bee. The process is done by a therapist holding the bee and pinching it till the stinger punctures the patient¡¯s skin. The woman's death has raised questions about the safety of the procedure.