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Irukandji Jellyfish: Its sting causes madness. 2 cm of nightmare in Australian waters When European colonists arrived in Australia, the Aborigines knew nothing about any jellyfish. They just knew that sometimes people who go into the water experience increasing pain and then go crazy. Those infected with an unknown illness shy away from every shadow, cannot lie still and constantly whisper about imminent danger. Fortunately, the obsession passed along with the pain. Unfortunately, sometimes it claimed a person's life. And neither the colonists nor their descendants for centuries could understand why they were periodically so severely twisted in coastal waters. Only in 1964, doctor and toxicologist Jack Barnes caught a jellyfish with a diameter of only 2 centimeters and let it bite him in order to reliably determine the principle of action of the baby’s poison. This is how humanity learned about the existence of the Irukandji jellyfish, and Jack received an extraordinary trip to the hospital. Fortunately, this selfless man was saved, and his nine-year-old son was not left an orphan. A little later it turned out that the microjellyfish is not only toxic and deadly, but also vile to the point of impossibility. Although it is small in itself, its tentacles can extend up to a meter from the dome. This is very convenient when you paralyze plankton and small fish with your poison, but it is very annoying for people who are trying to find the source of their troubles. Try to see it at this distance and under water! Moreover, immediately after the bite a person does not experience any unpleasant sensations at all. Only after 5 minutes does he begin to feel a slight itch - as if he had been bitten by a mosquito - which then smoothly turns into a feeling as if “an electric drill was stuck in the lower back.” This is how Irukandji syndrome begins. Pain at the site of the bite is followed by headache, muscle cramps, tachycardia and irregular breathing. The mixture of irukandji toxins skillfully disrupts the functioning of the body's nervous system and causes it to release a whole pack of neurotransmitters and hormones, driving the brain crazy. Therefore, following disturbances in the functioning of the body, the functioning of the mind is also disrupted. Nervous excitement gives way to anxiety, the person is unable to think adequately and cannot get rid of the feeling that he is being watched. Well, or from the feeling that an inevitable catastrophe is coming. Fortunately, this entire set of absolutely disgusting symptoms, with proper treatment, begins to subside between 6 and 24 hours from the moment of the bite and almost never leads to death. But all this is rather thanks to Australian medicine: treatment and prevention of poisoning costs the state 3 billion Australian dollars annually. Author: Yaroslav Ilyin 🏀 Hit the hoop and get an NFT gift — https://t.me/BasketbolX_bot