Toxicology: Open Access
Open Access

Review Article

Jellyfish Envenomation with Skin and Cardiovascular Manifestations and Treatments

Deepak Singh Bais¹, Wenliang Che^1*, GuiXian Jiang², Zheng Xu³ and Liang Xiao^4*

¹Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, China

²Clinical Medicine, Grade 2015, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China

³Research Department, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China

⁴Department of Marine Biotechnology, Faculty of Naval Medicine, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China

*Corresponding Authors:

Liang Xiao
Department of Marine Biotechnology, Faculty of Naval Medicine
Second Military Medical University
Shanghai, 200433, China
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Wenliang Che
Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital
Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200072, China
E-mail: chewenliang@tongji.edu.cn

Received date: August 07, 2017; Accepted date: August 28, 2017; Published date: September 01, 2017

Citation: Bais DS, Jiang G, Xu Z, Che W, Xiao L (2017) Jellyfish Envenomation with Skin and Cardiovascular Manifestations and Treatments. Toxicol Open Access 3:132. doi: 10.4172/2476-2067.1000132

Copyright: © 2017 Bais DS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Jellyfish are smooth-formed animals in the phylum cnidaria, living in around coastal water zones worldwide. Interacting with jellyfish tentacles, even the beached and dying jellyfish, can prompt millions of nematocysts to perforate the skin and infuse the venom through the inverted long spiny tubules, thereby causing toxic manifestations from no effect to extreme pain to death. According to the structure of nematocyst, quantitative toxins are released into body in a short time. Stung by jellyfish possesses a wide spectrum of toxic effects especially on skin and cardiovascular toxicities. However, the mechanism of jellyfish venom is not clear. In this review, we focus on Jellyfish toxins, symptoms and treatment after sting in order to reduce treatment time, improve the survival rate for medical providers and to set a reference for follow-up study.

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