A bit ‘to everyone it can happen to have to deal with an unpleasant episode during a simple bath in big. Unintentionally placing your hand or foot on a rock where there is a sea urchin can be really annoying.
A sting of this delicious but dangerous sea fruit that you must pay close attention to during a swim in the sea can ruin your day and could even make you rush to the hospital.
What happens if we inevitably prick ourselves with quills
The many quills of which the hedgehog is formed are covered with poison and stick very easily into the epidermal tissue causing severe pain.
Even if you do not practice deep water diving, the rock or inlet on the water’s surface can host one or more sea urchins. Their existence is often ignored, not paying particular attention, precisely because they are not always clearly visible and can be confused with marine vegetation.
When poison-coated quills stick to the skin, they not only cause severe pain, but if not carefully removed, they can lead to infections.
Precisely for this reason it is strictly necessary to remove the quills carefully and as soon as possible. One of the most important steps in doing this is not to break them. Furthermore, it will be absolutely necessary not to push them deeply, perhaps walking on them.
A delicious but dangerous sea fruit to pay close attention to when swimming in the sea
The hedgehog sting removal procedure is not always straightforward. The spines have not always stopped at the first layers of the epidermis or are of a mature hedgehog. In fact, if it is a small hedgehog, the quills are small and thinner, very difficult not to break and therefore remove easily.
In these cases, all you can do is go to the hospital and rely on doctors. Unfortunately, when we try to remove a sting that breaks and remains inside the epidermis, it can be subject to local tissue reactions.
In addition, the spine can walk and settle deeper, creating injury or even resting on a nerve or bone. So it absolutely must not be neglected and removed as soon as possible.
Realizing that you have a hedgehog sting is very simple, the skin at that point appears bluish in addition to local pain in that point. Vinegar is an old grandmother’s remedy that will relieve pain and dissolve superficial thorns. So if you wet the wound with a warm vinegar compress several times, it may be enough to get rid of the quills.
Slowly, with the help of tweezers, carefully remove the fragile quills that tend to break. When the quills are well removed if the pain persists for a few more days, you need to go to a doctor. There may be a foreign body, like a small piece of sting still stuck, that is causing that infection.
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