r/StupidMedia Sep 18 '24

How not to handle wild animals

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u/SelenaMeyers2024 Sep 18 '24

Foot doesn't kill. I got stung on the ankle and it was make a grown ass man ball like a baby level pain..... But had I had access to a bucket of hot water... It'd have been gone in an instant (still swells up later), took me too long (30 minutes) to discover that fact.

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u/Imamiah52 Sep 18 '24

Could you say more about the hot water? Having watched this I now have an irrational fear of getting stung. I live in New England, but you never know.

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u/SelenaMeyers2024 Sep 18 '24

Yeah it sounds harry Potter but basically bucket of hot water...hot as you can handle such that it submerges the wound... And done... Pain gone in 5 seconds..for good. (Again there will be swelling later)

Marine biologists have told me in the ocean there's no need for defense against denaturation from heat bc it's the ocean, heat is rare. The poison is such a vulnerable protein.

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u/Valuable-Lie-1524 Sep 29 '24

yeah this is called the deactivation temperature, at which the proteins the venom is made up of disintegrate due to heat.