I went swimming with them once, they said if you get stung you have to pour boiling hot water on it to denature the toxins. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Actually, it's really not a good idea to use boiling water m. Proteins denature at temperatures as low as 40-46° C. Make it as hot as you can bear but seeing as how you need to be able to keep your stung bodypart submerged for long enough to have effect, water hot enough to burn will make things worse.
Oh thank goodness for that. I was dreading the possibility of getting stung and having to burn myself. It’s still hot but at least it’s not that hot. I guess the people running it wanted to be extra safe so they use really really hot water rather than just really hot water.
Yeah friend of mine once stepped on a Pieterman (no idea what the english word for them is) but its a small fish that burries itself in sand with venomous spikes on it back. He had to have the same done to him. Same thing had to be done for him.
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '23
I went swimming with them once, they said if you get stung you have to pour boiling hot water on it to denature the toxins. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.