(Dive Travel Business News - April 19, 2012) -- Has a client complained of a red bumpy itchy rash within a day of being in seawater? And it takes days, sometimes weeks, for it to clear up? It's "Sea Itch" time of year in the Caribbean. Also known as "Sea Bather's Euption", Sea Itch is an intensely itchy red rash with small blisters, sometimes in clusters and elevated areas of skin which affects the bathing suit-covered - rather than the exposed - areas of the body. Sea Itch usually becomes noticeable between four and 24 hours after exposure. A tingling sensation under the bathing suit (breasts, groin, cuffs and ankles of wetsuits) is often first noticed while still in the water.
Although it can occur at anytime of year, Sea Itch tends to be a seasonal affliction for water goers, with outbreaks occurring intermittently between March and August, and peaking between mid–April and early July. Sea Itch affects most of the coastal United States, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean islands, Mexico, and South America. It is also present in the Pacific, notably in parts of the Philippines, Thailand and Australia. read more »
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