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Hey All,

It appears to be jellyfish season at the moment, lots of them floating around the beaches particularly in Fujerah. The little round squidgy ones you can see pretty well, but I encountered one I hadn't seen before. It kinda looks like a piece of string with orange bubbles in it, normally a couple of meters long just floating in the water.

Avoid these things! I got stung about 6 times and it leaves really painful bubbled lines where the stingers catch you, feels like your skin is burning, not pleasant at all.

You have to pee on the sting! Seriously!!

I had some steroid cream and antihistamines, so they did the trick, still hurting quite a bit though.

Try vinegar (which is weak acetic acid)- I have heard that that is good for jellyfish stings.

hope you feel better soon choco

jellyfish sting?? I thot they were only cuddly & cute?! Sorry to hear that choco. get well soon

Man of war jellyfish are deadly.

As are box jellyfish.

Yes EJ, many of them sting, (feels kinda like a bee sting, but many in one spot and you get whelps where the individual stingers have come into contact with the skin) that's how many of them catch prey, their tenticles inject toxins into fish, plankton or whatever else causing paralysis. Most non harmful to humans but pretty painful and doesn't look very nice.

A sting from the Man O War or Box jelly fish is deadly and will kill a human being in a very short space of time - there is no cure, luckily they're only found in certain parts of the world.

Karma.

Liban, re: karma-that is an entirely different belief to your own!!

In Islam we beleive in a similar concept.... You get whats coming to you. For us, this is in the hands of God... A Godly Karma if you will...

Not really Liban, it's just the jelly time of year, you go in the sea, you take your risk and I did and it hurt, no big deal.

I went in the sea and was not stung...

Ok stop it now! We were on the other side of the coast and practically everyone got stung. Really no big deal, so chill.

Chocoholic wrote:Ok stop it now! We were on the other side of the coast and practically everyone got stung. Really no big deal, so chill.

Perhaps Liban is equating himself to DANIAL entering the Lions Den and God protecting him from harm ?

Or perhaps he just tastes bad.

Seriously though-what kind of jellyfish are around here? I've only come across the ones that look like mandarin segments and are harmless. I am actually concerned for my kids.

The ones I saw were the small, round, clear type. But you get the normal bluey or purpley ones too.

I think what stung us was not an entire jelly fish but tentacles that were left over from ones getting caught in fishing nets. The stingers stay active for weeks on their own. They are long, a couple of meters in length and look like a piece of clear string with orange bubbles running through it.

Richard Owl Mirror wrote:

Chocoholic wrote:Ok stop it now! We were on the other side of the coast and practically everyone got stung. Really no big deal, so chill.

Perhaps Liban is equating himself to DANIAL entering the Lions Den and God protecting him from harm ?

Who???

Chocoholic wrote:Or perhaps he just tastes bad.

If you even had a single brain cell you would know that jellyfish have no taste buds....

Stupid...

BTW I think Richard means Daniel!!

Er I know jellyfish don't have taste buds - purlease I know alot about animals and marine life. - It was called sarcasm! But I guess it's lost on you.

Chocoholic wrote:Er I know jellyfish don't have taste buds - purlease I know alot about animals and marine life. - It was called sarcasm! But I guess it's lost on you.

Yes, yes, you know alot about everything... Thats the result of an inflated ego...

The only thing lost on me is how you can live in an Arab and Islamic country and yet be bigoted against us...

Not biting, stinging whatever, take yer views somewhere and stop talking about yerself - AGAIN! How you ever survived in Canada is beyond me.

It is a love hate relationship that is so aaawww darn cute!!

Chocoholic wrote:How you ever survived in Canada is beyond me.

Many things seem beyond you...

Nah Malaka!

Malaka pousti....

You are such a kolotripa.

Liban on alykaapio.

Kaneli and company, fae ta arhidia mu