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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. Stung off Maui Aston Kaanapali Shores beach on June 12th, about 50 yards off shore, swimming to go snorkeling. Brushed over my left arm. Never saw it. Ended up at Doctor’s On Call. Benedryl, litacaine cream and ice packs worked!

  2. Stung today at Castles Beach north of Kahuku. Lots of people in water yet I seemed the only lucky one to get stung. :/ vinegar and baking sod paste took away sting for now….

  3. We are staying at Kailua on Oahu.
    My son and granddaughter were stung June 9. Ended our afternoon at the beach. Morning of June 10 I stepped on the body of a mostly buried jelly while walking the beach. It caused a large blister the size of a silver dollar. Going to be a couple weeks before I will be able to walk normally, so no tennis or golf for awhile.

    Counted 19 jellies on the Kailua beach.

  4. Stung about 5 meters from beach on back of knee. Used my paddle to tangle tenticle. Feels like wasp bite. Vinigar helped. Once bitten, twice shy. Lanikai.

  5. Jellyfish larvae is in full effect near Beach House and Poipu Beach the last two days. My daughter and I would LOVE some treatment that actually works. We’ve been itching since last night. I’m falling asleep from the benadryl and we’ve tried vinegar, benadryl cream, and some steroid anti itch cream. We are miserable.

  6. We’ve been here at Kailua for the last 11 nights. We are from Calgary, Alberta. I’ve been swimming in the bay regularly – swum out to flat island a couple times. This morning, Feb 13, just after starting to swim, I felt a prick on my shoulder. I had also felt something with my leg at some point. I swam to shore and a local person asked if I had been stung. I said, yes, I had felt something. He then pointed out all the box jellyfish on shore – said that in 50 years, he had never seen them here before. Thankfully it was not a bad sting. Channel 4 media was there and they interviewed me. I also spoke to the lifeguards. Now we are flying back to the safety of a Canadian winter!!

  7. Although not a resident of Hawaii, I was raised on the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia (Atlantic Ocean) and was stung by jellyfish or stinging nettles more times than I can count. Around here, we don’t go to the beach without a jar of MSG (monosodium glutimate, or meat tenderizer) in our beach bag.

    When stung, first determine if any nettles remain on the body and if so, rinse them off with water or as stated before, vinegar. Then liberally apply the msg to the sting area. DO NOT rub it in, don’t rub sand on it, just let it sit for 15-30 minutes and the sting goes away.

    Again, I don’t know what variety of stinging nettles we have in our area, but this has always helped us. MSG can be found sometimes in a local Dollar Tree or Dollar Store. Hope this helps!

  8. Regarding the U of Hawaii “Treatment Coming” headline, there are already effective topical first-aid products available for jellyfish stings. And the medical treatment guidelines recommend an acetic acid solution: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/122/18_suppl_3/S934.full#content-block. StingMate is a 5% acetic acid gel, which meets the recommended guidelines and is available to buy now. I have seen other products as well but some contain lidocaine or ammonia, which are not recommended.

  9. I got stung April 13 2014 around 12pm swimming to chinamans hat. I had no idea there were jellyfish in the area. Never saw anything in the water or any signs. Don’t know what kind of jellyfish either. It got my entire leg.

  10. Sunday 3/30/2014

    My daughter was stung today at Anahola beach (5pm) on Kauai… standing ankle deep at the edge of the waves. She felt the shocking zap-sting, looked down and saw a bluish blob on her foot & kicked it off onto the waves. She walked over to me & showed us her foot saying she had just been stung. There was a tentacle still attached (that had blue lines in it). My husband pulled it off (he got a bit of sting on his fingers too). Both doing ok now after multiple home remedies & a call to the doctor.

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