Research progress on the incidence and control measures of jellyfish stings / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Jellyfish stings, a kind of common injuries caused by marine organisms, hurt human health and life greatly since its strong toxicity. The jellyfish stings can cause different reactions ranged from dermatitis, local injury, systemic injury and even death depending on the envenoming species. In recent years, with the development of the navy strategy transformation, the frequency and strength of military training among officers and soldiers were increasing, and the hurt of poisonous organisms from ocean specific environment was also growing, and jellyfish stings has become an increasing threat to navy combatant value. At present the solders know very little about this kind of injury, the preventive and therapeutic drugs are still in their infancy, and the primary medical units are lack of the targeted and standardized preventive and therapeutic drugs and first aid measures. How to improve the methods of treatments for jellyfish stings has been focused on by relevant authorities. The authors have reviewed the research progress in present paper of incidence, clinical symptoms and control measures of jellyfish stings for the purpose of laying a foundation for developing the new preventive and therapeutic drugs against jellyfish stings.