Box jellyfish sting ( Box Jellyfish ) can make a person lose their lives in a matter of a few minutes. Australian Resuscitation Council recommends to deal with jellyfish stings with vinegar proficiency level . The aim is to inhibit toxin injection into the body .
In fact , researchers from James Cook University and Cairns hospital found that vinegar can actually increase the amount of Box jellyfish venom is injected . The results of the study have been published in the journal Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine .
"The amount of toxins in the body of the victim can be increased up to 50 % . Was a tremendous amount sufficient to cause the difference , between survival and death , " said Jamie Seymour , professor at James Cook University .
Beginning of the assumption that the vinegar can neutralize toxic jellyfish originated in the Philippines more than a century ago in 1908 . At that time , a medical officer in Manila witnessed some kids jumping off the dock and plunged into the sea . Some children terengat jellyfish and then doused with vinegar .
In 1980 , conducted a study to investigate the benefits of vinegar to overcome jellyfish stings . Scientists in the study can prove it . However , Seymour said , vinegar is only effective if it is poured directly on the tentacles can while still inside the body of a jellyfish . How it can turn off the toxins from the jellyfish .
" The problem is no one observed what could result in the vinegar that has been fired . And that's what our research revealed . At that could have been fired , giving the vinegar will increase the toxins out of the tentacles of up to 60 % , " said Seymour as quoted by ABC Australia on Saturday ( 12/04/2014 ) .
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