Jellyfish Venom

People who have spent time near the poisonous sea of ​​jellyfish or in the sea have been warned that they have been killed by jellyfishes. Jellyfish is known as a dangerous, usually deadly animal. The exact role of jellyfish toxin is unknown and the real risk of jellyfish is often exaggerated. This article tries to answer some questions about jellyfish and poison. It discusses what kind of toxin constitutes the venom of jellyfish and how to deliver them.

Avoid: Watch out for underwater jellyfish Do not get something like a colorful balloon on the beach - it may be a poisonous jellyfish called Portuguese. If broken, rinse with seawater, remove the thoras at the end of the tweezers or credit card. Contrary to those "friends" episodes, tingling in jellyfish may exacerbate the situation. Sea otters are not insects, but baby thimble jellyfish. They take warm ocean currents to tropical beaches like Florida and the Caribbean Sea, trapped in bathing suits and hair. Rubbing causes the cells they stab to firing. The result is "seabird eruption", very itchy, pimple rash.

Jellyfish is equipped with capsules of thorns. Contact with the jellyfinger's tentacles can cause millions of thorns to puncture the skin and inject venom, but only a certain kind of venom can only adversely affect the body. The tingling effects range from mild discomfort to extreme pain and death. Most jellyfish stings are not fatal, but some box-type jellyfish (Irukandji jellyfish) like hornet's bite may become fatal. Bruises can cause allergic reactions (a kind of shock), which can be fatal. In the Philippines alone, jellyfish causes deaths of 20 to 40 people per year. In 2006, the Spanish Red Cross treated 19,000 swimmers in Costa Brava.

When jellyfish picks your poison, what it is doing is injecting that poison into your body. In fact, unfortunately, this poison is a neurotoxin (affecting the brain) and is used to feed jellyfish and kill jellyfish, but rarely human beings are fatal (p !) If you are paralyzed, various symptoms will appear, including pain, rash, fever, muscle cramps. The best way to deal with tingling is to wipe the affected area with alcohol, vinegar, or ammonia.

But even the most threatening jellyfish poison can prove to be beneficial to man. Modern scientific research has found that one side of a specific jellyfish species is actually useful in the field of organic research. Crystal jellyfish (Aequorea Victoria) contains a naturally occurring bioluminescent gene called green fluorescent protein (GFP). Scientists were able to isolate and synthesize this gene. GFP is modern cell biology with almost one hand. It allows researchers to see inside living cells and how they work first. I hope the sputum component of jellyfish poison may key the area code to the cardiovascular system.