Prolonged blurred vision following coelenterate envenomation

Burnett, Henry W.; Burnett, Joseph W.

doi:10.1016/0041-0101(90)90264-8

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“…The ophthalmic symptom was believed to result from systemic delivery of toxin. 15 Another child presented unilateral orbital inflammation 5 weeks after a jellyfish sting. Immune responses to the jellyfish venom were responsible for the unusual delayed consequence.…”

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Ocular Jellyfish Stings: Report of 2 Cases and Literature Review

Chen

Hsu

Chen

2016

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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An ocular jellyfish sting is an ophthalmic emergency and is rarely reported in the medical literature. With the evolution of aquatic activities and entertainment in recent decades, we anticipate that more patients with ocular jellyfish stings may be taken to the emergency department. However, most physicians are unaware of the typical presentations, suitable treatments, prognosis, and possible complications of ocular jellyfish stings. We reported 2 cases with ocular jellyfish stings and collected cases series from literature review. The most common clinical features of ocular jellyfish stings were pain, conjunctival injection, corneal lesion, and photophobia. All patients who sustained ocular stings did so during aquatic activities, and the best management at the scene was proper analgesics and copious irrigation of affected eyes with seawater or saline. The ocular lesions were treated with topical cycloplegics, topical steroids, topical antibiotics, topical antihistamines, and removal of nematocysts. The prognosis was good, and all patients recovered without any permanent sequelae. However, symptoms in some patients may last longer than 1 week. Reported complications included iritis, increased intraocular pressures, mydriasis, decreased accommodation, and peripheral anterior synechiae.

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Ocular Jellyfish Stings: Report of 2 Cases and Literature Review

Chen

Hsu

Chen

2016

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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“…Other sites of abnormal smooth muscle function after stings include several cases of vascular spasm at the injury sites that produced significant ischemia because of vascular wall closure 12 and an ophthalmological abnormality of prolonged blurred vision persisting for 1 week in a young woman. 13 This reaction could have been produced from autonomic nerve or smooth muscle impairment. Again, if smooth muscles were the target, the exact symptoms would be dose dependent, with lower doses producing spasm or increased activity and higher doses resulting in atonia as mentioned earlier.…”

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Prolonged Urinary Incontinence and Biliary Dyskinesia Following Abdominal Contact With Jellyfish Tentacles

Burnett

2006

Wilderness Environ Med

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“…In 1998 BURNETT & BURNETT reported the presence of blurred vision in a female patient of 19 years of age one week after the accident with L. unguiculata 3 . In none of our patients were observed visual changes.…”

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Seabather's eruption: a clinical and epidemiological study of 38 cases in Santa Catarina State, Brazil

Rossetto

Dellatorre

Silveira³

et al. 2009

Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo

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sUMMARYSeabather´s eruption (SBE) is an intensely itchy, papule-erythematous dermatitis that occurs predominantly in regions of the body covered by bathing costumes, after exposure to marine water. The planulae larvae of Linuche unguiculata scyphomedusae (thimble jellyfish) are the etiologic agent of the dermatitis, which is frequent in waters of Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Florida. The authors report 38 cases of SBE in the State of Santa Catarina (Southern region of Brazil), with emphasis on their clinical and epidemiological aspects, such as profile of victim, topography of the papules and conditions predisposing to the accident.

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Prolonged blurred vision following coelenterate envenomation

Cited by 16 publications

References 5 publications

Ocular Jellyfish Stings: Report of 2 Cases and Literature Review

Ocular Jellyfish Stings: Report of 2 Cases and Literature Review

Prolonged Urinary Incontinence and Biliary Dyskinesia Following Abdominal Contact With Jellyfish Tentacles

Seabather's eruption: a clinical and epidemiological study of 38 cases in Santa Catarina State, Brazil

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