Terrifying second influencer stung by deadly jellyfish in Philippines caught on video
The Irish influencer was swimming in the shallows of a remote island in the Philippines when she felt a sharp pain in her upper thigh, luckily an Australian doctor and a nurse were on hand to help
The blood-curdling moment an Irish influencer met with a spine-chilling ordeal was caught on video.
Julie was enjoying a swim around an isolated Philippine archipelago when she suddenly a piercing pain rocketed through her upper thigh.
It turned out to be an excruciating sting from a box jellyfish, notorious as the planet’s most lethal creature which can trigger cardiac arrest. Luckily, there was an Aussie medic and a nurse quick to spot the danger and treat her so she remained stable. She was rushed to the nearest hospital, which was located a lengthy three-hour trip away, for urgent life-saving care.
Sharing the harrowing saga with her TikTok followers, Julie said: “When it happened I got up and I was screaming and in a weird state of mind, I was running and screaming. I wasn’t even crying because of the shock.
“I knew from the feeling this was a jellyfish but I was hoping it wasn’t. I was very hot, squatted down and I didn’t feel anything but when I stood up I felt burning in my thighs and on my butt and when the venom spread it was so weird, I could feel it.
“Everything was just vibrating, it felt like it was. Where the sting was, on my thighs and on my butt it felt like a flat iron pressed against me, it was so sore. That lasted a day.”
Remarkably, the tour operator managed to grab the jellyfish, which was larger than Julie.
Julie continued: “There was a doctor and a nurse on our boat, what’re the odds, they were just on holiday. They were from Australia and knew about jellyfish, box jellyfish and they helped me get through it because I was in so much pain.
“They monitored me for an hour because with box jellyfish they can give you a heart attack within half an hour and the neurotoxin can paralyse you if it goes to the brain.”
Julie was enjoying a scenic trip from Coron to El Nido in Palawan when she suffered the painful sting.
She continued: “There wasn’t meant to be any jellyfish in this area or they wouldn’t have brought us there, this was a very rare thing.”
In a related incident, a mum has sounded the alarm for beach lovers after a close encounter with jellyfish during a leisurely walk. Kate Lally, 34, was ambling along Formby Beach last May when she came across a jellyfish “bigger than [her] head”.
Lost in her podcast, Kate almost tripped over the creature before realising its size. A frequent visitor to the local beach, she expressed shock at seeing such a large specimen ashore.
Kate’s stroll quickly turned into a scene from a nature documentary as she found herself amidst a swarm of jellyfish, spotting dozens more during her walk.
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