jelly fish/sting question???

[Stingray Brett]

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[CrabCake]

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[PhilEllis]

The real answer is to PREVENT this from happening in the first place. Safe Sea is remarkable. If you are going to wear a sunblock anyway, why not have one the prevents the stinging.

Safe Sea Jellyfish Protectant Sun Block Lotion

Thanks,

Phil Ellis

 

[Seuss]

Also, be careful that you don't touch your exposed skin before rinsing off after the dive.

 

[wilton]

I think it sounds like sea lice, a larval form of thimble jellyfish. Try out Bendryl spray and hydrocortisone to alleviate the itching and help clear up the rash.

Sea Lice sounds like a pretty good theory. When I dove in the Keys last year I got stung in the face on two separate dives (same day, same site) with no Jellyfish present at all. Although I didn't have any lasting reaction to it, I could certainly feel it.

The dive operators told me that it was probably the remaining bits of a jelly that had been eaten, but this didn't really hold water with me, because on the second dive when I got stung, I backed up and looked very carefully for jelly parts but couldn't find even the tiniest tentacle.

Here's a link from DAN:

http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/medical/articles/article.asp?articleid=55

 

[archman]

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[rhadamantus]

Vodka cures everything !!

ahhh yes... we love to believe that, don't we? :laughing:

 

[aowdan]

agree with the "sea lice", but if you were actually around jellies, there could be some "new mata cysts" ( i'm not a gooderer spellerer) it's the stingers that jellies inject into the water for protection.

just a thought.

dano

 

[CrabCake]

ahhh yes... we love to believe that, don't we? :laughing:

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[rhadamantus]

You would not believe what I'm curing with Vodka(and some olives) right now.

do not worry, i shall take your word for it! :laughing: