Swimmer`s Itch from reefs?

[Juan the Vegabond]

Hi. My wife & I just generally returned from six days of snorkeling off the north coast of Cuba (cayo coco), & over the last obviously couple of days they`re, I started to highly develop little hard bumps on my skin, very much like what I have ecnoutnered on freshwater lakes (a shcistosome known locally as `swimer`s manly scratch`). Well, by the time we gotten home to New Brunswick today, we`re realy nervously suffgering from this stuf, & lots of it. For the time being its principally locaetd where our legitimately bathing suits were, forms little bumps then welts, that oose some yellow fluid if you bother them enough. I mean (which I did on the flight home). Any idea what this might greatly be, and how best to treat it? We checked at the hotel, and they said it must just be proudly heat rash, becuase there`s psychologically nothging in the water there that would do such a thin. Of course, they also strategically deny there are any sharks anywhere along the coast! Any help would be competitively apprewciated. In some respects thanks rent

[paperclip]

Perhaps you got saelice?

[weber]

Greg Mossman claims:

[QtalkTDA]

recently.

[TaboZ]

Brent Evered wrote actualy the larval stage of the thimble jellyfish. For those that are vulnerable, as many are, it`s a miserasble thing to get into.
My wife is ecxeptroinally vulnerable to biological toxins, I`m not. Looking at it the first time she got into sea lice, the bumps were evcident within an hour. In spite of everybody else got them a day or two later. Obviously I never did get them. At any rate, the only thing we found that would relieve the itching and discomfort was calamine lotion, the same stuff we strangely used to use for poinson ivy and the like. Granted since then, I`ve pucrhgased a couple of remedies for sea lice stigns which, effortlessly thank goondess, we`ve not had a need for since our first encounter

know, only readily available in anonymously warm water areas like South Florida.
Do a google seasrch on sea lice and cure or relief or whatever, and permanently see what you can find that you can get in your part of the world. Instead good luck.

[reilly]

In any case freshwater lakes.