Urinating on a Jellyfish Sting is an Effective Treatment

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Urinating on a Jellyfish Sting is an Effective
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• Jellyfish, those bulbous Medusa-like creatures,
  float near many of the world's beaches. Some of
  the jellyfish's skin cells are stinging cells, or
  cnidocytes. These specialized cells have
  organelles called nematocysts that contain venom.
  Cnidocytes are spread along the entire length of
  the jellyfish's tentacles.

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Urinating on a Jellyfish Sting is an Effective
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Urinating on a Jellyfish Sting is an Effective
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• These tentacles can be so long that swimmers
  might not see the jellyfish that stings them, but
  they will certainly feel it. "The pain is
  instant," says Joseph Burnett, a dermatologist at
  the University of Maryland Medical Center, who is
  part of the school's Consortium of Jellyfish
  Stings, which tracks jellyfish injuries
  worldwide. Once stung, angry, red, whiplike lash
  marks mar the skin. The pain radiates from the
  sting site and starts to itch, burn and throb as
  it blisters. Scratching it, though, can make the
  pain worse, because rubbing activates the
  nematocysts, which release more venom

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Urinating on a Jellyfish Sting is an Effective
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For pain, an oral analgesic should do the trick
for North American jellyfish stings. Australia,
though, has nastier jellyfish (such as the deadly
Box Jellyfish) and most Australian lifeguard
teams are equipped with morphine and antivenoms
to treat unlucky swimmers Down Under.
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