Cure stinging jellyfish

Experiments show that using hot water and pain relievers can quickly relieve pain caused by jellyfish, not other folk tips such as using urine or vinegar.

From west to me, the tips for burning stings are not missing, depending on the area, such as vinegar, salt medicine to urine .

Although the American Heart Association and the Red Cross also recommend using vinegar or saline, accompanied by hot or cold treatments, recent research shows that the best method is to use hot water to wash the bite. and apply pain relief cream like lidocaine .

Specialist Nicholas Ward of the University of California in San Diego (USA) said the study was done on North American jellyfish, according to a report published on the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

The first thing after a jellyfish bite is to carefully remove the poison bag from the skin and avoid breaking the bag.

Then wash the wound area with hot water to remove the poison, or if it is not immediately available, use salt water.

Vinegar is sometimes counterproductive and hurts, especially for North American jellyfish, according to Reuters expert Ward.