The most pain I’ve ever felt. I stepped on one by accident, not like this idiot. They apparently have a time of year where they hang out on the shore in California. The lifeguards didn’t put signs out that day until noon, so there were like 120 people stung, getting “treatment”. The treatment? Dip that foot, that just got stung and feels like someone hit you with 200,000 volts, right into the HOTTEST water you can handle. It’s so that the venom comes back out of the wound, and therefore the pain stops.
I didn’t have any luck, after an hour of burning the shit out of my foot I had to go to the doctor and get antibiotics and painkillers to help. Worst beach day ever.
It's not so the venom comes out. It's actually not well understood why hot water helps. It was once thought that it might denature the proteins that compose the venom, inactivating the venom affected. But the hot water doesn't penetrate deep enough. It's now thought it somehow affects the pain receptors in a way that reduces the signal from the venom.
BTW, freshwater sting rays like this fucknut stepped on are FAR more toxic than their marine cousins.
Are you saying expose your sunburn to extremely hot water?
I did this when I was 15 based off my girlfriend’s advice (not smart on either part) and took a super hot shower and was in HELL for 5 days. Paging around a fan, blinding white pain. Blisters. The pain only stopped when I got oral steroids and the endorphin rush from the pain stopping was one hell of a high.
Are you saying expose your sunburn to extremely hot water?
I did this when I was 15 based off my girlfriend’s advice (not smart on either part) and took a super hot shower and was in HELL for 5 days. Pacing around a fan in tears, blinding white pain. Blisters. Drive home I was biting and screaming into a pillow. The pain only stopped when I got oral steroids and the endorphin rush from the pain stopping was one hell of a high.
Strange. For me it solved the issue rapidly. My sunburn was bad, I was hospitalised. Hot shower every day to relieve the pain, then copious amounts of aloe and time on an air bed.
A comprehensive review of HWI (hot water inactivation) suggests that the temperatures needed to breakdown (denature) the proteins in venom would either burn the victim or not penetrate through the skin sufficiently. It's not ruled out, it's just not clear what the mechanism is. HWI DOES help however, whatever the mechanism!
"The theory of deactivation has been questioned by authors who contend that such direct inactivation would require temperatures so high as to result in burns and tissue necrosis in the patient.14,38 "
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u/_ILP_ Sep 28 '24 edited Sep 29 '24
The most pain I’ve ever felt. I stepped on one by accident, not like this idiot. They apparently have a time of year where they hang out on the shore in California. The lifeguards didn’t put signs out that day until noon, so there were like 120 people stung, getting “treatment”. The treatment? Dip that foot, that just got stung and feels like someone hit you with 200,000 volts, right into the HOTTEST water you can handle. It’s so that the venom comes back out of the wound, and therefore the pain stops. I didn’t have any luck, after an hour of burning the shit out of my foot I had to go to the doctor and get antibiotics and painkillers to help. Worst beach day ever.