Jellyfish sting

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i got one a week ago in south carolina and it stopped hurting like 10 minutes later but left a scratch like mark on my foot and just now its started to get really itchy and a little red and raised

is that normal? or is my foot gonna fall offf....
 
no idea, but i got stung twice surfing in north carolina last week, they only hurt for like a few minutes after, i think you are suposed to pee on it after if it hurts but im not sure about a week later
 
i read in a newspaper recently about some norwegian scientists that are working on developing sun screen that protects against jelly fish. sounds like a good idea
 
thats normal a couple years ago i had one sting my elbow towards teh begining of my vacation. then it was just red but didnt hurt for a while, and for like 2 days it got all itchy and bumpy but finaly went away
 
but no i didnt pee on it... youre supposed to put vinegar on it which i didnt do either but the stinging went away after 10 minutes.... and it didnt bother me until now a week later
 
google jelly fish sting and find out more information, you will get better answers there than you will on here...
 
I got one when i was in florida, and the lifeguard put this water vinegar mixture on it, and i was fine

google it? or see a doctor
 
I got stung hardcore by this crazy fucked up jelly over the summer off the California coast... hurt like a bitch for about 45 minutes, and lingered with a dull pain for about 4 days...

we didnt have any vinnegar so i just had to sit there and let the nematocysts (or whatever the fuck you call their pain inducing evilness) keep firing off into my foot and it SUCKED BALLS.

either way, it really wasnt that bad... more annoying than anything that i just had to sit there and let this shit sting the fuck out of me... while my friends worried about me. I just hope that when i got stung, my foot smashed the thing into oblivion.
 
I guess plums are supposed to work to. I used to get stung all the time on Long Island sound in the summer. You get used to it. I wouldn't want to get stung by one of those tropical bastards or the man-of-wars or any of that shit.
 
i got stuck by a man-of-war. hurt like KRaZyyY. moms a doc and she put meat tenderizer on it. it lowwered the swelling a lot. yours might be infected though, i would go to a docter to find out. wouldnt want a little jellyfish to affect you ski season!
 
note that i bumped this thread from 2007 because i was doing some crazy project thing on jellies for my Bio project.

therefore. 2 year bump requires no response to thread creator :P
 
Haha I knew that but it is funny reading other people's advice. Sounded like your jelly fish encounter was with an exotic strange jellyfish seeing as it had unusual results it seems
 
it was a sea nettle i think.. medium sized jelly with some pretty good sting to it, but nothing that could kill you like a box jelly or one of those other fuckin australian killer things.
 
My brother got the worst sting I've ever seen in person. In the bahamas, a really tiny amorphous jelly stung the inside of his kneecap (the back of his leg), and it swelled up so much that when he bent his leg, her was no bend, it was just straight. Then it went numb and he couldn't move it too well. And there was three really big red lines on the swollen part. It was so bad for a such a small jelly, but i guess it does depend on the poison.
 
I swear jelly stings are the most aggravating pain imo. I take jellyfish in the face all the time when I commercial fish in AK...not fun
 
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