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Reader Submissions: Jellyfish Stings

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Updated August 13, 2011

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There are lots of stinging creatures in the deep blue sea. Most of the victims are stung by jellyfish. Jellyfish stings come in all shapes and sizes.

These pictures and stories illustrate how other readers just like you got stung by a jellyfish and what they did about it.

Are you a victim of a jellyfish sting? Do you have a picture? Click on the button to share your own jellyfish sting picture here on About.com First Aid.

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Thought We Would Lose Her on the Fiji Coast

The tour guide wiped down her arm in one direction with a cloth soaked in vinegar. Then applied ice to her arm as well as kept pouring chilled water over it. When we had her breathing under control a…More

Lime Juice Didn't Cut It

I put lime juice on it, because i didn't have any vinegar. Eventually the pain went away, but even now it is 5 days later and the bumps are still there; though no pain is present... it is quite itchy…More

Massive Sting on Foot

i was send to the medical room and got treated there with artisan cream and painkiller. tablet the next day the injured area and my foot became swollen and turn reddish.when i reached Singapore on th…More

Did Nothing and Pain Went Away Eventually

I didn't do nothing to it I was hoping it would go away but it hasn't. I was told to mix some vinegar, ammonia, and dish soap together and rub it on but the stinging pain has went away. I do still ha…More

Jellyfish Sting in the Bahamas

The lifeguards suggested white vinegar. But I had rubbed sand on it first because I remembered my grandmother doing that when my brother and I had been attacked by hundreds of jellyfish in Puerto Ric…More

Hot Water Worked the Best

I peed on it whilst on the beach. That did no good. I went back to the villa, and my mum squeezed a lemon over it. That hurt like hell. Then she found this website on her Iphone, and I got into the s…More

Jellyfish Sting in Maui

i didnt know what happened just hung out for a bit and started getting more swollen, so i went to the doctor and they said it looked like a whip so jellyfish sting, the doctor gave a steroid shot and…More

Tide Pool Jellyfish Surprise

I screamed. A lot. I ran around. I cried. In short, I was a dramatic teen. I did manage to run to the life guard who put meat tenderizer on it. I said in a huff, "What do you think I am? Dinner?" To …More

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