GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - Contact with a jellyfish can be extremely uncomfortable and result in the need for medical assistance.
Stings range from having no effect to causing extreme pain and even death. Even beached and dying jellyfish can still sting.
When stung, vinegar or salt water may help to relieve the pain. Rubbing stings, or using alcohol, spirits, ammonia or urine on the sting may have negative effects, because these can encourage the release of venom.
When they wash up on the shore, jellyfish quickly dry out and die. Picking up jellyfish or throwing them back into the ocean is not advised.
Some jellyfish are harmless, but others have powerful, painful deadly stings. Jellyfish cannot fight against the tidal conditions that wash them ashore, so any jellyfish thrown back into the ocean is likely to wash ashore again.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
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