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Hawaii Jellyfish Sting Warnings | Important For Your 2022 Vacation

Plan your Jellyfish sting free 2022 Hawaii vacation now. Keep these tips in mind before booking cheap flights to Hawaii.

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  1. Thx for the info! I was stung today by a man of war @ Lanikai Beach. Didn’t even see it, just felt it. Left welts on my back.

  2. I was stung today by a Man of War jellyfish. I was just standing with my boyfriend on the shore when it washed up and wrapped around my ankles. It left a lot of welts and hurt pretty bad; I was sick for a few hours but now I’m fine. This was at Bellows.

  3. My daughter got stung this afternoon at Kam III in Kihei. She described a “line of blue dots in the water” that she saw immediately before a wave washed them on to her. Ouch. Lifeguards were great – got her to a hot shower ASAP.

  4. Partner was stung in Kapalua Bay 8 years ago or so, but don’t know what kind of jellyfish. Never saw it, but left deep welts.

  5. Snorkeled Kapalua Bay just at the border of Napili in Maui yesterday. Amazing assortment of fish, some turtles too. Best snorkel spot to date. To my surprise, very near shore in the middle of the sandy beach was a deep red jelly fish the head the size of a basketball with very long skinny tentacles. Maybe a man o war? It was floating near the surface. When snorkeling we tend to look down but you can bet I will be checking the surface too for the rest of our snorkeling trip. We are off to Big Island tomorrow.

  6. I was stung yesterday at 6:45am about 100 yards off shore at Lanikai Beach. I was wearing goggles but did not see anything. I just suddenly felt like a razor had cut me across my face and then my upper arm. Thinking that where there is one there are usually others I was terrified as I swam back to shore that I would swim right into a group of them. Was that a legitimate concern? I’m a strong swimmer but the pain made me feel weak. There happened to be a couple of early birds on the beach and they crushed a white berry growing there and had me rub it on the stings. I googled for sting treatments the second I got home (a painful 10 minute walk) and saw that what I most wanted – a cold shower – was a bad idea. Based on what I read I tried rubbing alcohol to no effect. Vinegar which helped a little. I put on shaving cream and shaved over the stings to remove any tentacles although I couldn’t see any. Just the thought of them being under my skin had me anxious. Finally I tried what sounded the least appealing, a hot water compress, and guess what? That was what helped the most!

    I usually swim every day but I have to admit, this has me spooked. Any advice on what do when you’re stung? Are there others around? Is rubbing wet sand on the stings helpful? Thank you!

  7. Hi

    On November 3, 2007, while swimming with my husband off Waikiki beach, I felt that I had been bitten or stung by something on the wrist, despite the fact that I did not see anything in the water. Immediately it did not feel like anything other than odd or “what was that?”. However as the seconds ticked by I could feel that something was wrong, and told my husband I had to get out of the water right away. By the time I was back on the beach, the pain was excruciating, and I told my husband that I needed to get off the beach as I felt like all I wanted to do was scream. I did go to the lifeguard and he said it was a jellyfish sting. At the same time I could hear a small child screaming, and I instinctively knew by the sound of that scream that he or she must also have been stung. I can best describe this pain as if I someone was holding my wrist over an open flame and I could not take it away. Ice helped quite a bit, but i could not remove the ice bag for hours or the pain would return, it was much better within 24hrs. Both my husband and I had never heard of this happening before off the Waikiki beach, and only later did we see the jellyfish
    warning signs on the beach.

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