How to protect yourself from Jellyfish Stings!

If you're planning on summer adventuring in a locale known for jellyfish you can protect yourself from jellyfish stings with the most unlikely of tools—pantyhose.

Some jellyfish have very short stingers which cannot penetrate the mesh and others have stingers which are triggered by contact with the skin surface and the nylon provides just enough buffer.

You can stop by your local lingerie store and pick up a nylon cat suit in your size or you can purchase a commercial suit designed for the purpose.

If you forgo the suit and end up getting stung by the irritating and not life-threatening kind of jellyfish then fire up a blow dryer and hold it as close to the site of the stings on the hottest setting you can stand (don't burn yourself) and then fan it back and forth over the affected area. The blow dryer dries out the stingers without activating them—like trying to rinse them off with fresh water would. Once you blast the area with heat you can use a safety razor or credit card to scrape the stingers off.