What happens when a jellyfish stings you? Here’s what happens when ... such as your arm brushing against a tentacle, or your foot smashing a dead jellyfish on the beach. When activated, a ...

Relying on urban myths is the last thing you'd want to do when dealing with an extremely painful jellyfish sting. Most of the information out there on how to treat jellyfish stings might actually ...

There are an estimated 150 million jellyfish stings worldwide every year. Some are serious and even life-threatening, but most are just painful. So what’s the best advice if you do get stung?

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A 5-year-old girl experienced critical limb ischemia after a jellyfish sting in Murudeshwar. Initially treated with fresh water and vinegar, her condition worsened, leading to severe ischemia.

Although a few kinds of jellyfish can cause life-threatening stings, mostly it just burns, swells, itches, and leaves tracks along your skin. Here's how you treat it Rinse your skin in salt water.

Jellyfish have radial symmetry, meaning that if you sliced a jellyfish down the middle, the parts would be symmetrical, like the segments of an orange. These cnidarians are famous for their stinging ...

Mucus from jellyfish that sit upside-down on the seafloor has blobs lined with stinging cells The stinging cells are coated on tiny mobile blobs called cassiosomes within the mucus that “zoom ...

NParks warns that box jellyfish have highly venomous stings which can be fatal, and lists symptoms including "immediate, increasing, and extreme pain", breathing difficulties, nausea and dizziness.