Stonefish sting

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• Airways and lungs
  • Difficulty breathing
• Heart and blood
  • Collapse
• Skin
  • Bleeding
  • Severe pain at the site of the sting
  • Whitened color of the area around the site of the sting
  • Color of the area changes as the amount of oxygen supplying the area decreases
• Stomach and intestines
  • Abdominal pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
• Nervous system
  • Delirium
  • Fainting
  • Fever (from infection)
  • Headache
  • Muscle twitching
  • Seizures
  • Paralysis

Review Date: 10/04/2009
Reviewed By: Jacob L. Heller, MD, MHA, Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org).

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