cat-go-boom: wisel: thedeathofkiryu: unffvodka: ragingbagoftestosterone: thenwhowasphone: downlookingup: guillee: An Irukandji jellyfish, a “tiny and extremely venomous jellyfish that inhabit marine waters of Australia, and which cause symptoms collectively known as Irukandji syndrome”: Because the Jellyfish is very small, and the venom is only injected through the tips of the nematocysts (the cnidocysts) rather than the entire lengths, the sting may barely be noticed at first. It has been described as feeling like little more than a mosquito bite. The symptoms, however, gradually become apparent and then more and more intense in the following 5 to 120 minutes (30 minutes on average). Irukandji syndrome includes an array of systemic symptoms including severe headache, backache, muscle pains, chest and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, sweating, anxiety, hypertension, tachycardia and pulmonary edema. One unusual symptom associated with Irukandji syndrome is a feeling of “impending doom”. Patients have been reported as being so certain that they are going to die that they beg their doctors to kill them to get it over with. Symptoms generally abate in 4 to 30 hours, but may take up to two weeks to resolve completely. Nature is a cruel motherfucker. What. oh fuck DAYUM NATURE DAYUM NATURE YOU SCAREH Dude, we just watched a video about these Jellyfish in Marine Bio. Is it bad that I want to be stung by this jellyfish JUST to experience this impending doom symptom? WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA. In Australia, the Ecosystem has conquered humanity.

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guillee:

An Irukandji jellyfish, a “tiny and extremely venomous jellyfish that inhabit marine waters of Australia, and which cause symptoms collectively known as Irukandji syndrome”:

Because the Jellyfish is very small, and the venom is only injected through the tips of the nematocysts (the cnidocysts) rather than the entire lengths, the sting may barely be noticed at first. It has been described as feeling like little more than a mosquito bite. The symptoms, however, gradually become apparent and then more and more intense in the following 5 to 120 minutes (30 minutes on average). Irukandji syndrome includes an array of systemic symptoms including severe headache, backache, muscle pains, chest and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, sweating, anxiety, hypertension, tachycardia and pulmonary edema. One unusual symptom associated with Irukandji syndrome is a feeling of “impending doom”. Patients have been reported as being so certain that they are going to die that they beg their doctors to kill them to get it over with. Symptoms generally abate in 4 to 30 hours, but may take up to two weeks to resolve completely.

Nature is a cruel motherfucker.

What.

oh

fuck

DAYUM NATURE

DAYUM NATURE YOU SCAREH

Dude, we just watched a video about these Jellyfish in Marine Bio.

Is it bad that I want to be stung by this jellyfish JUST to experience this impending doom symptom?

WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA.

In Australia, the Ecosystem has conquered humanity.

(via catgoboom)

Source: Wikipedia
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