I have found that anti-perspirant relieves the swelling and pain from bee stings as well as sun burns. I now have one of my free

anti-perspirants in my large family emergency kit. My 7 year old nephew got stung multiple times this summer by bees at Bear Lake. My sister rubbed anti-perpirant on the stings and the swelling went down and the pain went away as well!
So if you don't have a bee sting kit handy(and you don't have anyone in your family that is allergic to bees that requires a hypdermic solution) try anti-persirant! (I've also heard that meat tenderizer will help with swelling and pain for a bee sting.)