Jellyfish - how much do these little puppies hurt?

[robertsondavies]

are we talking yellow jacket sting?

or worse?

and what are we supposed to do to our kids when they get stung? I heard Peeing on them in public is not encouraged anymore... that there is something better.

any input appreciated.

Thanks

[Jdarg]

See the Jellyfish thread before it veers off into a discussion of Oprah and her...nevermind.

Stay in the water and soak out the sting. Works for my family. Unless the water is full of them, which has not been the case whenever we have been in the Gulf.

Some say Windex.

Peeing on it is so yesterday, like "Survivor".

[SGB]

I was told to put vinegar on them, but my kids said it hurt worse when we did that a few weeks ago. I've since read an article in the newspaper that said vinegar doesn't work. Instead it said, as JDarg said, to leave it in the salt water...

[NoHall]

Isn't the pee effective because of ammonia? If so, wouldn't anything with ammonia work?

[Will B]

Vinegar stops any unfired nematocysts from firing which is the part of the tentacles that sting. Beyond that it does little for the after effect.

I sat on a man-o-war when I was a kid. Looked like somebody hit the back of my leg with a red hot coat hangar.

[30A Skunkape]

It does not hurt, not nearly as bad as a bee sting, more of an itchy irritant. Please don't get anyone to pee on you at the beach.

[DonPtrl]

WINDEX it works!

[Jdarg]

WINDEX it works!

Only if you have it with you.

[DonPtrl]

Everyone should have it with them now!

[peapod1980]

WINDEX it works!

Only if you have it with you.

I'm picturing a Bond girl coming out of the water with a bottle of Windex strapped to her leg instead of a gun.
I need to eat something, I think my sugar's low.

[jodiFL]

I keep a small bottle of cheap meat tenderizer in my "beach bag" if they are known to be in the area. Just take some of the salt water and make a thick paste with it and apply to affected area.

[ThatPersianGirl]

Some hurt really, really bad, and some not-so-much... guess it also depends on your tolerance for pain.

I have been thinking of leaving a small bottle of windex in the trunk of my car, or better yet... in my beach bag.

[Hop]

It does not hurt, not nearly as bad as a bee sting, more of an itchy irritant. Please don't get anyone to pee on you at the beach.

this is directly relative to where you are stung and how much...the one i got this weekend felt like a (hot initially) and then a irritated mild burn for several hours...i was swimming all morning and thought "if i had gotten snagged across the face and neck???"...it would be pretty rough.

[Smiling JOe]

Yellow jacket stings are the worst, regarding the actual sting. When I was stung by jellies, I never felt the sting until I exited the water. Hop is correct that it depends on where you are stung, how many tentacles get you, and how long the tentacles are.

[NoHall]

Yellow jacket stings are the worst, regarding the actual sting. When I was stung by jellies, I never felt the sting until I exited the water. Hop is correct that it depends on where you are stung, how many tentacles get you, and how long the tentacles are.

You sure you got hit by yellow jackets? This is about the 3rd time I've heard you describe how painful it is--I never thought they were THAT bad. Asian Hornets look like large yellow jackets, and I've heard tell that their sting "will make you wish you were dead."

[Smiling JOe]

I'm sure they were yellow jackets. Been torn up by wasps as well. I may be a little mentally scarred by a few incidents of mass stingings with nowhere to hide. The yellow jackets hurt more because there were more stings. Ever try running with a big @ss weedeater strapped around your neck and still running, while being chased and stung by a swarm of yellow jackets and you are basically in the middle of a field with no shelter? That crap hurts. Put me in a pond with alligators any day of the week but keep those yellow jackets the hell out of my face. For me, the yellow jacket stings are about as painful as a Tetanus shot.

[DD]

I'm sure they were yellow jackets. Been torn up by wasps as well. I may be a little mentally scarred by a few incidents of mass stingings with nowhere to hide. The yellow jackets hurt more because there were more stings. Ever try running with a big @ss weedeater strapped around your neck and still running, while being chased and stung by a swarm of yellow jackets and you are basically in the middle of a field with no shelter? That crap hurts. Put me in a pond with alligators any day of the week but keep those yellow jackets the hell out of my face. For me, the yellow jacket stings are about as painful as a Tetanus shot.

Man.....I have this mental image.... God luv ya!

This reminds me of mr. dd up on top of the house and just know that he is terrified of wasps, yellow jackets, bees, you name it. Well, he was up on top of the house and a wasp was after him..I can only imagine what went through his mind. He swatted frantically at the thing...not good. He cut his hand on something and the wasp got him anyway. Then he had to climb down. And, to make matters worse, we were leaving the next morning to go to Kerrville to the YO Social Club Annual Party and we weren't about to miss THAT, so we went anyway--with his hand swollen about three times it's normal size. All the pictures show him in his biker costume and HUGE hand! God luv him too.

[NoHall]

I'm sure they were yellow jackets. Been torn up by wasps as well. I may be a little mentally scarred by a few incidents of mass stingings with nowhere to hide. The yellow jackets hurt more because there were more stings. Ever try running with a big @ss weedeater strapped around your neck and still running, while being chased and stung by a swarm of yellow jackets and you are basically in the middle of a field with no shelter? That crap hurts. Put me in a pond with alligators any day of the week but keep those yellow jackets the hell out of my face. For me, the yellow jacket stings are about as painful as a Tetanus shot.

Not with a weedeater, but I have run away with a chainsaw! That time, I wasn't the one being stung. My buddy was taking them for the team.

Man.....I have this mental image.... God luv ya!

This reminds me of mr. dd up on top of the house and just know that he is terrified of wasps, yellow jackets, bees, you name it. Well, he was up on top of the house and a wasp was after him..I can only imagine what went through his mind. He swatted frantically at the thing...not good. He cut his hand on something and the wasp got him anyway. Then he had to climb down. And, to make matters worse, we were leaving the next morning to go to Kerrville to the YO Social Club Annual Party and we weren't about to miss THAT, so we went anyway--with his hand swollen about three times it's normal size. All the pictures show him in his biker costume and HUGE hand! God luv him too.

I've done that, too, on a 50-ft. ladder.

[Smiling JOe]

Yikes, DD!!! Glad that wasn't me because I would have jumped! Did I tell you that I once lived in a rental house which had a Yellow Jacket hive in the exterior wall of the house? There was no A/C in the house so we always had the window open (with crappy screens), and about every day, 1-4 yellow jacket would find its way inside and face death by the fly swatter. They ain't just for flies. That property also had two yellow jacket nests in the yard and they chased my dog on occasion. He dislikes the buzzing insects so much that he will catch them in his mouth and kill them. After three months of complaining about the hive in the wall of the house, the landlord (fairly crazy man with no fear of getting stung) came out and sprayed the hives and killed them.

[NoHall]

Yikes, DD!!! Glad that wasn't me because I would have jumped! Did I tell you that I once lived in a rental house which had a Yellow Jacket hive in the exterior wall of the house? There was no A/C in the house so we always had the window open (with crappy screens), and about every day, 1-4 yellow jacket would find its way inside and face death by the fly swatter. They ain't just for flies. That property also had two yellow jacket nests in the yard and they chased my dog on occasion. He dislikes the buzzing insects so much that he will catch them in his mouth and kill them. After three months of complaining about the hive in the wall of the house, the landlord (fairly crazy man with no fear of getting stung) came out and sprayed the hives and killed them.

DON'T SQUISH 'EM! You have to spray those little bat-turds! They have the same pheremone as killer bees--when one stings or is crushed, the others swarm. That's why you're usually stung by more than one at a time. (That, and their irritating ability to sting more than once.)

[Smiling JOe]

DON'T SQUISH 'EM! You have to spray those little bat-turds! They have the same pheremone as killer bees--when one stings or is crushed, the others swarm. That's why you're usually stung by more than one at a time. (That, and their irritating ability to sting more than once.)

That explains why they, like Fire Ants, also sting simultaneously. Maybe if you get stung by only one, they sting isn't so bad, but when 5-10 get you at the same time, that crap is something you will always remember. I thought the yellow jackets lost their stinger when they sting??? Am I thinking of another stinging insect? I seem to recall having to pull the stingers out, and even after the insect had flown away, the singer still had some muscle attached and would be pulsating the venom into my body. Why the heck are we talking about yellow jackets?

[Miss Kitty]

DON'T SQUISH 'EM! You have to spray those little bat-turds! They have the same pheremone as killer bees--when one stings or is crushed, the others swarm. That's why you're usually stung by more than one at a time. (That, and their irritating ability to sting more than once.)

How many times can they sting? Remember when I squished one by sitting on it? That was the worst sting of all! Hurt for weeks! You know, it took three cans of poison to kill that underground nest! Skeery!

[Jdarg]

Do not ever go to the bathroom in the middle of the night without turning on lights and checking under the toilet seat.

Wasps like to hang out there, wait for half asleep people to sit down, then sting people very close to the private place the jellyfish stung Darlene.

And I know this because it happened to me. I can't even describe how horrifying it is to be stung while going to the potty! I can laugh about it now.

[DD]

Do not ever go to the bathroom in the middle of the night without turning on lights and checking under the toilet seat.

Wasps like to hang out there, wait for half asleep people to sit down, then sting people very close to the private place the jellyfish stung Darlene.

And I know this because it happened to me. I can't even describe how horrifying it is to be stung while going to the potty! I can laugh about it now.

Ok...this is the best story...

[NoHall]

That explains why they, like Fire Ants, also sting simultaneously. Maybe if you get stung by only one, they sting isn't so bad, but when 5-10 get you at the same time, that crap is something you will always remember. I thought the yellow jackets lost their stinger when they sting??? Am I thinking of another stinging insect? I seem to recall having to pull the stingers out, and even after the insect had flown away, the singer still had some muscle attached and would be pulsating the venom into my body.

It is a member of the wasp family; bees leave their stingers. I suppose they can leave it if they are injured as they sting, but they don't really work that way.

Why the heck are we talking about yellow jackets?

Go Jackets!

[NoHall]

Do not ever go to the bathroom in the middle of the night without turning on lights and checking under the toilet seat.

Wasps like to hang out there, wait for half asleep people to sit down, then sting people very close to the private place the jellyfish stung Darlene.

And I know this because it happened to me. I can't even describe how horrifying it is to be stung while going to the potty! I can laugh about it now.

Y'all need to watch your va-jay-jays!

[Smiling JOe]

It is a member of the wasp family; bees leave their stingers. I suppose they can leave it if they are injured as they sting, but they don't really work that way.

I bet I'm thinking of Honey Bees.

[Miss Kitty]

Y'all need to watch your va-jay-jays!

[NoHall]

I bet I'm thinking of Honey Bees.

Miss Know-It-All says: Honey bees will leave stingers, but usually only sting if you step on them. They are not at all aggressive. They're the ones that people wear on their faces like beards. (I only know this because a friend of mine had an infestation in her house while she was away and I ended up having to investigate it for her.)

[grace]

are we talking yellow jacket sting?

or worse?

and what are we supposed to do to our kids when they get stung? I heard Peeing on them in public is not encouraged anymore... that there is something better.

any input appreciated.

Thanks

More of an itch than a sting in my experience. I scrub the area with wet sand while in the water to remove any nematocysts left on the skin.

[kathydwells]

Do not ever go to the bathroom in the middle of the night without turning on lights and checking under the toilet seat.

Wasps like to hang out there, wait for half asleep people to sit down, then sting people very close to the private place the jellyfish stung Darlene.

And I know this because it happened to me. I can't even describe how horrifying it is to be stung while going to the potty! I can laugh about it now.

So let me tell you the sting I got on...ok, well you all already know where.....really wasn't that bad as long as I was in the water. It only hurt when I got out. So, I just stayed in the water for a while and it got better.

My sting probably was not as bad as getting stung by a wasp there. OMG, jenny it makes me tense up just thinking about it. I am so looking forward now to peeing in the middle of the night.

[Uncle Timmy]

Do not ever go to the bathroom in the middle of the night without turning on lights and checking under the toilet seat.

Wasps like to hang out there, wait for half asleep people to sit down, then sting people very close to the private place the jellyfish stung Darlene.

And I know this because it happened to me. I can't even describe how horrifying it is to be stung while going to the potty! I can laugh about it now.

A similar warning should be issued for people inclined to bend over and inspect things on the ground -while in an outdoor shower.

If you haven't heard the details of this infamous SoWal incident, let me know and I will give you the full story one day soon.

[grace]

A similar warning should be issued for people inclined to bend over and inspect things on the ground -while in an outdoor shower.

If you haven't heard the details of this infamous SoWal incident, let me know and I will give you the full story one day soon.

I haven't heard...... do tell.

[Jdarg]

I haven't heard...... do tell.

I have- and he needs to share.

[NoHall]

A similar warning should be issued for people inclined to bend over and inspect things on the ground -while in an outdoor shower.

If you haven't heard the details of this infamous SoWal incident, let me know and I will give you the full story one day soon.

Let's have it!

[Uncle Timmy]

I have- and he needs to share.

Ok, well the Uncle Timmy residence has an outdoor, shower courtyard.

Not just a little wooden enclosure around a shower as per most (normal) people but a real 10’x20’ courtyard, complete with 8’ stucco walls, landscaping etc.

It is right off my master bathroom and very convenient, and private.

Well one summer, I decided I needed to plant some ground cover between the stepping stones in this courtyard. I went to the nursery, bought some herbs and planted them.

It was an extremely hot day and by the time I was finished I was soaked in sweat and decided to cool off in the shower. So I took my clothes off and while I waited for the water to warm up I wandered around the courtyard inspecting my new ground cover.

One plant needed a little extra mulch, I noticed, and so I bent over to tend to the plant when…………..

………….I distinctly felt something land on my @ss.

It so startled me that I jerked upright and when I did my cheeks clenched and the little bee on my behind got crushed……and stung me!

Pow, right in the kisser.

It hurt like heck but I was laughing and crying at the same time.

[Smiling JOe]

You need to screen in that courtyard. Better the insect sting on the tush, than the Rattlesnake bite on the foot.

[NoHall]

It so startled me that I jerked upright and when I did my cheeks clenched and the little bee on my behind got crushed……and stung me!

Pow, right in the kisser.

It hurt like heck but I was laughing and crying at the same time.

How em-bare-a$$-ing!

We have a terrible story like that in my family:

When my brother was 6, he ran and unexpectedly jumped up on my dad's lap. Dad had one ankle propped on his other knee, and it tore the ligaments in one of his knees.

I don't remember exactly how it was treated (I was just 3) but Dad was in a cast from his foot to his hip. Mom (who is the best tell-er of this story!) says that one hot night, Dad was going through his nightly ritual of getting his big 'ol leg in the bed, grumbling all the way, only to come flying back out of the bed again. He had sat on a wasp. Pop's hobbling around in pain, cussing, and she is dying laughing about how much faster he got out of bed than he got in it.

[Uncle Timmy]

You need to screen in that courtyard. Better the insect sting on the tush, than the Rattlesnake bite on the foot.

Pigmy rattlers show up from time to time.

No problem, I just use the BBQ tongs to grab ‘em and toss ‘em over the wall.

Remember- I live right next to the State Forest, I have no right to complain about the critters.

[micki]

We are usually in Sowal in June and don't see many jellyfish (the kind with the tentacles) at all. Are they more prevalent later in the summer? We will be there in October this year. Should we be more wary of them?

[grace]

Pigmy rattlers show up from time to time.

No problem, I just use the BBQ tongs to grab ‘em and toss ‘em over the wall.

Remember- I live right next to the State Forest, I have no right to complain about the critters.

[Minnie]

Here is some good info about treating them.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2038662_trea...sh-stings.html

[Mango]

………….I distinctly felt something land on my @ss.

It so startled me that I jerked upright and when I did my cheeks clenched and the little bee on my behind got crushed……and stung me!

Pow, right in the kisser.

Poor bee. Maybe it thought your behind was the flower....
the bee-goniass.

[Smiling JOe]

No jelly fish in sight today, even though the purple flag was flying. Plenty of Hermit Crabs, though.