Initial treatment with vinegar or rubbing alcohol often gives marked relief. Topical steroids and antihistamine creams also are helpful. Attempt to keep the patient inactive. Place a tourniquet snugly around the extremity, but not so tightly that the blood supply is cut off. Nevertheless, loosen the tourniquet every 20 minutes for 3 minutes.
Warm soaks are helpful.
Never attempt to mouth suction the bite, because the wound is then innoculated with organisms from the human mouth and always becomes infected.