Close their eyes to protect from the sun.Texts books will tell you to apply a Pressure Immobilisation Bandage, but in reality the toxin is so potent and works so quickly you may not have time.
BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS BITE FULL
I’m pleased to say due to the prompt action of those who knew what to do she made a full recovery and is leading a full and normal life – although she is more careful around rock pools now! Luckily in that that time the paramedics arrived and took over.”
The other Lifesaver said “Let’s give it 5 more minutes”. I was screaming in my head “NO, NO DON”T STOP, DON”T STOP” as I lay there seemingly dead. After a while I heard one of them say “ I think we have done enough now, shall we stop?”.
I was conscious but paralysed so I couldn’t communicate in any way. Because I wasn’t breathing, they started CPR. They closed my eyes and I could hear them talking as they checked my breathing and called 000. Luckily there were a couple of Surf Lifesavers who KNEW What To Do. I collapsed on the beach, I could feel my breathing stopping and I was paralysed. I had no idea what was happening, I felt mentally alert but it was like my body was shutting down. I felt sick, had difficulty swallowing, then speaking, then breathing. The bite wasn’t painful and the first thing I noticed was numbness in my lips and tongue and then I started to feel very weak. I scooped it up in the palm of my hand to show a friend and was amused to see it change colour and the blue rings really showed up. “I was looking in rock pools on a lovely sunny day on the Sunshine Coast, when I saw this cute little octopus. In tide pools and coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans from Japan to Australia.īlue-ringed octopus are small (120mm to 200mm or 5 to 8 inches), colourful and change colour when disturbed which makes them attractive to play with. This post is about a true story from one of my First Aid courses about the Blue-ringed octopus, but it could have just as easily been about a cone shell as the toxin and effects are the same. What are over 6 times more venomous than the most venomous snake in Australia and there is no anti-venom available – the Blue-ringed octopus and cone shells.
What you do in the first 5 minutes can make all the difference.
Mr Pix told Perth Now: “When I pulled the shells out at home to clean them, there was this blue-ringed octopus in my hand.Would you know what to do in the first 5 minutes? In extreme cases, blue-ringed octopus bites can cause death from respiratory failure or cardiac arrest. There is no anti-venom available for blue-ringed octopus bites. The duration of life-threatening symptoms is usually 4 to 10 hours - after that time, surviving patients typically show rapid signs of improvement. Its bite is usualy painless, but after 10 minutes, the victim may have difficulty breathing, become paralysed, and require artificial ventilation until they can be transported to a hospital. It's bite is poisonous to humans, with the power to paralyse its victim within minutes.Įxperts have said, just more than half a milligram of its venom is enough to kill an adult human. Usually the octopus is active at night, spending most of the day hidden. This octopus has blue rings on its yellow body, but the rings only appear when the animal is disturbed, hunting or mating.
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