The treatment for jellyfish stings?
Act quickly while still in salt water. The sting is felt instantly. Get a hand full of sand and rub the area as quickly as possible. Keep your fingers together and repeat the process several times after the area no longer feels slimy. Get ashore as quickly as possible. Do not rinse the sting with fresh water, unless it is a man of war sting, which has a different type of venom. Treat with a "1-2-3" kit. Prepare and keep this kit handy, it will keep indefinitely. Get 3 small plastic bottles (Used spice containers are ideal). Label the bottles with the appropriate number and apply in that order. Bottle 1 has vinegar. Apply and wait 10 seconds ( do not use vinegar for man of war stings, it will make it worse). Bottle 2 has 1 part sudsing ammonia to 4 parts water. Apply and wait 10 seconds. Bottle 3 has aloe vera gel or lotion. (There are packets made to treat these stings, but the only active ingredient is aloe vera.) Bottles 1 and 2 are needed to neutralize the ongoing reaction. The aloe vera simply soothes the pain and speeds up the healing process.
How to treat the stings of jellyfish?
In Australia we have loads of problems every year with stings from all sorts of jellyfish/ stingers,and for the most part the most common relief used while the patient is feeling the agonies of a bite, well , not really a bite. The stings are actually on the many and very long tentacles,and like bee bites you are left with a miriad of stings injected in to the site of the sting. To be completely successful in curing pain and poisoning, these have to come out, and they can be fatal. At the most at risk beaches in Australia , there is always a station near the beach with a large jug of ordinary vinegar. It helps to ease the pain, until paramedics can transport the person to a hospital.
How To Treat a Jellyfish Sting?
If this is a plea for emergency treatment, then you are in the wrong place! If you are young, talk to your folks about seeing a doctor now or in their absence seek emergency medical help yourself, now! Indications that would prompt this would be typical of any severe allergic reaction such as difficulty breathing, heart irregularities or the severe swelling of the affected limb especially if this is accompanied by pins and needles or blueness in that limbs' extremities. Assuming that this is not a plea for emergency treatment, then the following may help.: 1. Are you sure that the jellyfish was a Red Jellyfish? If you are then the appropriate administration of anti-histamine (Hay-fever) tablets and ant-inflammatory tablets (ibuprophen?) appropriate to your age(s), (supervision?) and medical history (drug allergies / clashes etc.). If you are unsure, seek qualified medical help. Paracetamol will help with the pain and may be taken with the other two in appropriate doseage to your ages. 2. If you are not sure of the type of jellyfish - Seek medical help. The Box jellyfish is quite harmful but is generally only found on the pacific coast. The sting from this does require immediate medical treatment. NB If seeking help of this kind, your ages are essential for anyone to advise you accurately and safely. PS The kind of discomfort that you are experiencing could disappear overnight or go on for around ten days or more. Hope you feel better soon
Jellyfish?
Most jellyfish stings can be treated by rinsing the area with salt water, applying vinegar or a baking soda paste, and taking a pain reliever. A rash or other skin reaction due to delayed hypersensitivity may be treated with oral antihistamines or corticosteroids. A jellyfish sting occurring on or near an eye requires immediate medical care for pain control and a good eye flushing.
Papain is a protease enzyme which means that it breaks down proteins. The venom in the sting from a jellyfish (or any cnidarian) is a protein. The idea is that the papain will break down the venom rendering it ineffective.The difficulty with that idea is that, when you’ve been stung, the venom is inside you and the papain is outside.A friend of mine is a retired biologist with thousands of SCUBA dives and decades of handling various cnidarians - he says two things on this subject:Papain probably doesn’t do much good.He never dives without it - it’s like chicken soup which, as we know, “couldn’t hurt!”
You can treat jellyfish stings with urine, so why is my "UrineMart" so unpopular?
It's so unpopular becasue you are only offering a single flavor. Try updating your selection and marketing to the "golden shower" crowd as well as the jellyfish fetishists. You'll see your market value go through the roof!
BEST WAY TO TREAT JELLYFISH STINGS!?!?!?
Um......well... just dont get stung by a jelly fish, lol Seriously, it depends on the jellyfish, if it's just a little sting like a bee sting then heat and icing it is pretty good, and maybe just to be safe a Doctor, if it gets irritating or itchy. If it's a jellyfish that leaves a burn mark, let the area get some air and quickly go to the doctor.
The ‘stinger’ of a jellyfish or any other cnidarian is a structure called a nematocyst:Nematocysts can be present in numbers of up to 6,000,000 per square inch and are generally used to capture and kill prey. You could think of them as microscopic harpoon guns in that they fire a tethered and barbed projectile into your skin that then pumps venom through the tether and into you. The venom is a protein and once it is in you the possible antidotes are very hot water and/or meat tenderizer; either of which might or might not denature the protein thus rendering it ineffective.Vinegar comes into play because the jellyfish’s tentacle will sometimes (often?) break off and remain stuck to your skin where the remaining nematocysts will continue to sting you. The acid in vinegar deactivates those nematocysts, allowing the tentacle(s) to be removed.As an aside, some people recommend urine as a remedy to jellyfish stings. The problem with that is urine can have a wide range of pH values according to what you’ve been eating and drinking. That means that sometimes pee works and sometimes it doesn’t.
Is it true that if you pee on a jellyfish sting it will stop the pain?
DO NOT USE URINE to stop jellyfish sting pain. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish#T... (see last sentence): There are three goals of first aid for uncomplicated jellyfish stings: prevent injury to rescuers, inactivate the nematocysts, and remove any tentacles stuck on the patient. To prevent injury to rescuers, barrier clothing should be worn. This protection may include anything from panty hose to wet suits to full-body sting-proof suits. Inactivating the nematocysts, or stinging cells, prevents further injection of venom into the patient. Five percent acetic acid solution (white vinegar) is the preferred method, although meat tenderizer, or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) will neutralize any nematocysts that have not yet discharged into the skin. Meat tenderizer should not be left on the skin for more than 15 minutes, and none of these substances should be used in the eyes. In the case of stings on or around the eyes, the solution may be placed on a towel and dabbed around the eyes, but not in them. Salt water may also be used in case any of these compounds are not readily available, but fresh water should never be used. Rinsing the sting site with fresh water, rubbing the wound, or using alcohol, spirits, ammonia, or urine will encourage the release of venom.