Stingrays & Meat tenderizer

[trifish]

Heard a funny thing today........... to keep meat tenderizer in your vehicle for stingray stings. Huh?

Some are convinced that it breaks down the venom and helps with the pain when you don't have access to a hot water bucket/lifeguard tower. Sounded ridiculous to me, but than i googled it and came across others claiming the same. Saw something about the ER recommending it to somebody as well.

So my question is, am I the only one that has never heard of this? Have you tenderized?

 

[TeamScam]

Not really. As a kid I was taught about using meat tenderizer helps for removing a bee's stinger, but nothing about neutralizing venom.

 

[20W-50 and blood]

I've heard of it. All I know is they suck...doesn't matter what you do...if it gets ya, it's got ya.

 

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

Protein based sting juice. Meat tenderizer breaks down protein. It works.

 

[everysurfer]

It only works if the meat tenderizer is inside your foot. Just don't tell tRump it's a cure got covid.

The real deal, so a doctor told me, is heat. Put the injury in as hot water as you can stand.

 

[PRCD]

Protein based sting juice. Meat tenderizer breaks down protein. It works.

Also putting it in the hottest water you can stand. The proteins act like an egg in boiling water.

 

[MBfreek]

Also putting it in the hottest water you can stand. The proteins act like an egg in boiling water.

This is 100% true. And the proteins denature (or 'cook') at temps much lower than boiling, which is why it works

 

[Clayster]

Meat tenderizer has also long been recognized to neutralize and break down whatever Portuguese man of war tentacles leave on you.

 

[ElOgro]

Waiting as long as you can with the sting in the water helps a bunch. Then heat. And mezcal.

 

[jamesgang]

Also putting it in the hottest water you can stand. The proteins act like an egg in boiling water.

This really works the best. It's the best things for man o' war stings too. When my kids were little I used to bring hot water in a thermos to the beach because somebody would always get zapped and be screaming. Now they're older, they can suck it up

 

[stringcheese]

Well great, and here I've been letting strangers pee on me when I could have just as well....oh, sting ray...nevermind, carry on.

 

[000]

i use it for beating my meat