Comments on: Heat trumps cold in the treatment of jellyfish stings /news/2016/04/14/heat-trumps-cold-in-the-treatment-of-jellyfish-stings/ News from the ¶«¾«Ó°Òµ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 02:36:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: kurt /news/2016/04/14/heat-trumps-cold-in-the-treatment-of-jellyfish-stings/#comment-623032 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:42:14 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=44837#comment-623032 In reply to kurt.

At least that’s what they’re teaching at the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technologists. If jellyfish venom is heat labile, the board should be informed.

]]> By: kurt /news/2016/04/14/heat-trumps-cold-in-the-treatment-of-jellyfish-stings/#comment-623028 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:33:17 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=44837#comment-623028 I’m pretty sure the “all marine venoms are highly heat sensitive” comment is incorrect.

Heat Stable Venoms (treat with ice, and vinegar if not Box Jelly):
Jellyfish
Fire Coral
Portuguese Man-o-War
Sea Anemone

Heat Labile Venoms (treat with hot water immersion of at least 40 degrees C):
Lion Fish
Scorpion Fish
Sea Urchin
Stingray
Weever Fish

]]> By: Stung by a jellyfish? Heat it. | Marine Science Today /news/2016/04/14/heat-trumps-cold-in-the-treatment-of-jellyfish-stings/#comment-573320 Fri, 06 May 2016 05:00:29 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=44837#comment-573320 […] Research Center and John A. Burns School of Medicine and senior author of the paper, explained in a news release. “In HawaiÊ»i, and around the world, we have seen that first responders and public health […]

]]> By: Angel Yanagihara /news/2016/04/14/heat-trumps-cold-in-the-treatment-of-jellyfish-stings/#comment-572539 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 06:12:20 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=44837#comment-572539 Aloha Robert,

Tests (link below) do not show any benefit of urine application in box jelly stings. It does not allow the same degree of stinging cell inactivation as vinegar and it causes some cnidae to discharge. Urine is also not hot enough for long enough to be a treatment to inhibit venom already injected as hot water immersion 42-45oC for 20-40 min

]]> By: Robert Akau /news/2016/04/14/heat-trumps-cold-in-the-treatment-of-jellyfish-stings/#comment-570626 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 04:01:35 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=44837#comment-570626 Does this findings about heat validate that unsubstantiated claim that a liquid already body temperature, acidic or vinegary to a degree, that we already carry around internally may be used to treat man-o-war(bluebottle) stings?

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