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How To: Deal with Sea Lice and Swimmer’s Itch (aka Duck Itch)

Around the world, 2018 has been a hot summer. I predicted early on before the heat wave that 2018 would see a lot of jellyfish, and so it transpired. I also predict that we will see early and more noticeable Sea Lice in swimmers this year, beginning possibly as early as the first week of…

July 23, 2018 in How To, Open Water swimming.

Sea Lice, Seabather’s Eruption and Swimmer’s Itch

Sea Lice covered in this post from 2011. Possibly due to the early summer three-week-long heatwave in Ireland, the itching we associated with sea lice has started early in the first week of August instead on late August or September when the problem usually arises. It usually noticed while in the sea. I usually notice…

August 9, 2013 in How To, Open Water swimming.

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