Is it possible to develop allergies to jellyfish venom? The reason I ask is this: I'm pretty used to getting sea lice during the summer here in florida (or swimmer's eruption, thimble jelly larvae, whatever you'd like to call it). Well I've noticed a big change in the effects it has on me.
For example in this photo: was taken in december of 2004 the only signs are little red bumps. Slight itching.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/quiescentplunge/IMG_0801.jpg
But in this photo: taken today shows what I've been experiencing the past couple weeks. Warning it's pretty gross.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/quiescentplunge/5389b3a3.jpg
It started two weeks ago: I was stung around the mouth (regulator area) chin and cheek. The day of it was like normal, I didn't use any medication (as usual) except for a natural sea salt spray with lysozyme. Which is just a natural cleanser. Pretty much exactly 24 hours later ooze was coming out of the stings. Slightly greenish. liquidy. Had to use some tissues to keep it from dripping. That healed within the week. Than this past saturday I was stung around the ankle areas. Quite a bit more pain, much more itching. Than yesterday I'm stung again in the same area, this time extending up to knees area and a little on my knuckles.
Now my legs are on FIRE. They ooze semi clear stuff. Some of them develop into bubbles like in the second pic. And some straight out explode or something and there are little chunks of skin missing.
So... is it possible to become allergic to sea lice via extended multiple exposures? Or is it possible that this isn't the typical sea thimble larvae? Did I just swim through a lot of them? Another jelly could be a siphonophore which my buddy saw on the surface. By the way, he was stung as well, but his stings look far less severe than mine even though we were probably less than 10 feet from each other.
Any ideas? I need some hydrocortisone pretty bad, gonna make the trip tomorrow morning.
For example in this photo: was taken in december of 2004 the only signs are little red bumps. Slight itching.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/quiescentplunge/IMG_0801.jpg
But in this photo: taken today shows what I've been experiencing the past couple weeks. Warning it's pretty gross.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/quiescentplunge/5389b3a3.jpg
It started two weeks ago: I was stung around the mouth (regulator area) chin and cheek. The day of it was like normal, I didn't use any medication (as usual) except for a natural sea salt spray with lysozyme. Which is just a natural cleanser. Pretty much exactly 24 hours later ooze was coming out of the stings. Slightly greenish. liquidy. Had to use some tissues to keep it from dripping. That healed within the week. Than this past saturday I was stung around the ankle areas. Quite a bit more pain, much more itching. Than yesterday I'm stung again in the same area, this time extending up to knees area and a little on my knuckles.
Now my legs are on FIRE. They ooze semi clear stuff. Some of them develop into bubbles like in the second pic. And some straight out explode or something and there are little chunks of skin missing.
So... is it possible to become allergic to sea lice via extended multiple exposures? Or is it possible that this isn't the typical sea thimble larvae? Did I just swim through a lot of them? Another jelly could be a siphonophore which my buddy saw on the surface. By the way, he was stung as well, but his stings look far less severe than mine even though we were probably less than 10 feet from each other.
Any ideas? I need some hydrocortisone pretty bad, gonna make the trip tomorrow morning.
