Recurrent dermatitis from jellyfish envenomation.

Can Fam Physician. 1994 December; 40: 2116–2118.

PMCID: PMC2380397

S. Menahem and P. Shvartzman

Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel.

Abstract

Jellyfish envenomation can cause an immediate local skin reaction, which is usually a painful linear vesiculourticarial eruption. Persistent, delayed, or recurrent dermatitis is less common. Because jellyfish sting reactions and their management are unfamiliar to family physicians, we describe a case of recurrent local dermatitis after jellyfish envenomation and suggest appropriate treatment.

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