The treatments provided at a hospital can vary greatly depending on the opinions of the physicians working there. Many physicians now advocate the management of scorpion envenomation symptomatically. Since every case is different, the treatment of each case must be different. Unfortunately, none of the treatments for scorpion envenomation has been clinically tested. Furthermore, the self-limiting nature of scorpion envenomation makes testing difficult. Most patients recover fully and rapidly without treatment, so it is difficult to say whether any particular course of treatment has any beneficial affect at all. While it is beyond the scope of this page to get into the clinical details of all the various treatments, it is instructive to look at some of the treatments that do not appear to work.