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    Posted: March 09 2015 at 10:05am
Hi all just wondering if i need to be concerned about this throbbing thumb. I was rearranging some rock and I caught my foxface unawares, and poked my thumb good. I just want to see if there are any remedies, or just suck it up and deal with the pain. haha
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Foxface venom, especially if you are sensitive to it, can be quite gnarly.

If the venom got in your blood stream, necrosis is a possibility, swelling is a guarantee, and the pain is going to last a while.

I would take an anti-inflamatory, and if that doesn't help within 12 hours consult a doctor.

Definitely clean the area to prevent a bacterial infection.

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Thanks, I put HP on it immediately  and and rinsed with RO Water flushed as much blood from wound

 as possible but Dang this sucker hurts. I'll Take some Ibuprofen and see what happens, just wanted 

to make sure i was going about it the right way.
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K got that too, anything else I should. Add to my cocktail? Lol
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Prescription strength Cabo Wabo would help dull the pain..... (i guess Jameson could work as well).

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I see you used " RO water" to rinse the wound.... Wouldn't want any algae growing in there ;) Lol

Hope you feel better
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I would add a double tall scotch to the cocktail. Mixing alcohol and drugs is always a wonderful idea.
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As hot of water as you can stand to denature the toxin at least 20 minutes and then followup with the aforementioned drugs or inflammatory or pain killer of choice. You could pee on it but that only works for jellyfish, have fun with the throbbies... keep us abridged...

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Originally posted by 1stupidpunk 1stupidpunk wrote:

Prescription strength Cabo Wabo would help dull the pain..... (i guess Jameson could work as well).


+1

If you have enough Cabo, you might jump in the tank and kick the fishes ass.

Originally posted by Pete Moss Pete Moss wrote:

I would add a double tall scotch to the cocktail. Mixing alcohol and drugs is always a wonderful idea.

+1

Great choice; I prefer a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned when I do my reefing. Within reason, I don't want to get attacked like jbuck13.
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The standard first aid procedure is hot water soak with as hot as you can safely stand for 20 minutes followed by a vinegar soak followed by another hot water soak. The hot water breaks down the toxins and the vinegar dissolves any calcium lodged in.

Still seek medical attention.
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Thanks for the follow up Nikki, I was thinking I forgot the vinegar after posted. Do what Nikki said...
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Originally posted by ReefdUp ReefdUp wrote:

The standard first aid procedure is hot water soak with as hot as you can safely stand for 20 minutes followed by a vinegar soak followed by another hot water soak. The hot water breaks down the toxins and the vinegar dissolves any calcium lodged in.

Still seek medical attention.

Wow, thats pretty intense. Do any of the more common fish, like yellow/blue tangs, and clowns do this?

I imagine it has to have some sort of barb on it, but I could be wrong. My clowns (RIP) tried to bite me, but it was just a nibble.

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I've done hot water soak when it actually happened I grabbed at base of thumb and squeezed toward wound I pushed out a lot of blood the throbbing is all but gone, (meds have helped) so I'll move on to vinegar soak and then back to hot water, thanks all for responses.
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Originally posted by Marcoss Marcoss wrote:

Wow, thats pretty intense. Do any of the more common fish, like yellow/blue tangs, and clowns do this?

I imagine it has to have some sort of barb on it, but I could be wrong. My clowns (RIP) tried to bite me, but it was just a nibble.

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Only specific fish have venoms that are harmful to humans. Foxface's, scropionfish, and lionfish are the big ones to be careful of in the reef hobby.

Oh and the blue ring octopus.

Your other fish shouldn't cause too much harm :)
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Originally posted by Pete Moss Pete Moss wrote:


Only specific fish have venoms that are harmful to humans. Foxface's, scropionfish, and lionfish are the big ones to be careful of in the reef hobby.

Oh and the blue ring octopus.

Your other fish shouldn't cause too much harm :)

Thank god, I was nervous. I know of the other fish, but did't know about he Foxface. It seemed so calm...
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Originally posted by Marcoss Marcoss wrote:

Thank god, I was nervous. I know of the other fish, but did't know about he Foxface. It seemed so calm...


They are nice! They don't really go out of their way to attack you haha. I love those cute lil' guys!
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The hot water and vinegar treatment is standard procedure with nearly all marine minor injuries. Hot water breaks down nearly all dangerous to humans known marine proteins. There are a couple of extremely rare one that the hot water actually intensifies the effect, but statistically speaking, you're safest with the hot water.

Don't pee on any marine injury. Ammonia makes nematocysts fire all at once. Vinegar dissolves any attached undischarged ones before they discharge.
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