Off The Scale Box Jellyfish Sting Pain
Most have at some stage or another had to try through gritted teeth answering the one question we do not want to or cannot: how bad is the pain? From a stubbed toe to a migraine, the intensity impacted by the patient's pain threshold obviously varies. Many know that jellyfish stings are usually bad but box jellyfish stings, no matter who you are, are so bad they almost defy description. On a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is mild and 10 is unimaginable and unspeakable, box jellyfish stings as so eloquently put by lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel when explaining his amp in the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, "... go to eleven." American professor Brian Fry from the University of Queensland, Australia is a venom expert and when rating that country's Top 10 most painful stings he placed two cubozoa or box jellyfish species at the top. Coming in second was the Chironex and at number one was the Irukandji . Chironex is a Chirodropida or multi-tentacle box jellyfish and Irukandji