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<P>If you want to try the hot water treatment, then put the OTHER foot in as well.</P>
<P>Altered sensation in the envenomed limb can lead to scalding. The "good" limb acts as a control as it more reliably detects if the water temperature is too hot (or that the leg's cooking). </P>
<P><BR>John</P>
<P>Dr John L Holmes <BR>Director Emergency Medicine <BR>Mater Adult Hospital <BR>Brisbane, Australia</P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"MSD" <listasmsd@gmail.com></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>"Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list" <trauma-list@trauma.org></I><BR>To: <I>"Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list" <trauma-list@trauma.org></I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: still more on stingrays</I><BR>Date: <I>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:15:19 -0400</I><BR>><BR>>Tabi<BR>>.....The USA navy in days long gone by devised a treatment, hot water. Works<BR>>excellent as it deactivates the venom.<BR>>Wash the wound and afterwards place the limb (as itīs usually a foot) in<BR>>warer as hot as the patient can stand for no less than 30 mintes...<BR>><BR>>I'll take note, but in the middle of nowhere sometimes hot water is a<BR>>expensive commodity<BR>>Regards<BR>>Manuel Sotelo<BR>><BR>>--<BR>>trauma-list :
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