Comments on: Portuguese Man-O-War First Aid https://survivaltek.com/?p=2179 Teaching the Ways and Means to Survive Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:53:52 -0400 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Ken https://survivaltek.com/?p=2179&cpage=1#comment-794 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:01:46 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=2179#comment-794 I spoke to my son who said that he developed a rash around the sting site about a week later that was uncomfortable and lasted about 4 days. His sting site was mostly gone after a month and finally by 2 months. There are no discernible scars today.

]]> By: Olivia https://survivaltek.com/?p=2179&cpage=1#comment-793 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:33:59 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=2179#comment-793 My 6 yr old son just got stung as we were in Maui, Hawaii. The screams he gave out..I initially thought it was fishing line, then I got stung and my husband a bit as well, exiting the water.

We ended up rushing him to the hospital, even after giving him some Benedryll, his face started to become red, his breathing either from the stock of getting stung or from the man-of-war was becoming a concern, cautioned my husband to not take any chances.

Poor guy, he didn’t sleep a wink that night, he itched & was in pain.

I scar very easily and its only been 1 1/2 weeks, how long will the scars began to fade away? Should I treat with anything?

Oh, I like to add: in addition to urine, from past experience to myself (not with man-o-war), I found that rubbing sand on the body where the stingers is helps to remove them from the body and lessons the sting.

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