Swimming at the beach is one of the few things we can do to beat the heat in the summer months. Of course, if there’s one thing that can ruin an afternoon at the beach, it’s Presence of jellyfishespecially in the event of a sting (which can be serious depending on the type of jellyfish).

Given the large number of applications available for our mobile phones, today we can find an application for almost anything we can think of. If you are going to the beach this summer, do not miss the opportunity to install the MedusApp application. jellyfish sightings and stings report It’s completely free.

MedusApp is an essential app to be aware of the existence of jellyfish

MedusApp is a citizen collaborative app that allows us to collaborate with the scientific community and help other swimmers. Avoid annoying jellyfish stingsAs its creators note on the project website, MedusApp has been used to report more than 37,000 jellyfish sightings and nearly 2,500 stings.

As we mentioned, the application is completely free and without any type of advertising. It is a project developed by Eduardo Blasco and Ramón Palacios and its aim is to improve knowledge about the health effects of jellyfish stings.

One of the most important functions is, observation reportbecause we can use the application to report the presence of jellyfish on the beach we are on. MedusApp allows us to choose the species, indicate how many specimens we see and their size, as well as attach a photo (if available).

This app also allows us to Send bite reportssomething that will help the team of medical researchers have more information for their studies. It’s possible to specify the site of the sting, the length of time since the sting, the type of jellyfish that stung us, our age or whether we’ve been stung before.

MedusApp is not only useful for reporting the presence of jellyfish, because landscape map This allows us to easily check if the beach we want to go to is safe. If a green dot appears on the map, it means that there are no jellyfish on the beach; if the presence of jellyfish has been recorded, we will see that it is clearly marked.

The app uses color coding To report how painful a jellyfish sting is. Those with a non-painful sting are shown in white, while the rest are colored yellow (slightly painful), orange (stinging), and red (very painful).

In addition, the application has a action guide for bites This can be useful if we get stung by a jellyfish and are not sure what to do. Finally, MedusApp also offers a complete jellyfish guide that gives us detailed information about each species.

It’s interesting to note at this point that MedusApp isn’t the only citizen collaboration app we’ve heard of: a few weeks ago we talked about Mosquito Alert, an app designed to combat the tiger mosquito and other mosquito species.

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