FloridaRed Tide

This post is for Doctors and Vets who have the need to treat people or animals with symptoms of exposure to Red Tide.

Red Tide Health Effects and Treatment Options

The casual reader will find the attached document a bit much to read. However I will try to summarize accurately.

Before I do I want to be very clear that no one associated with redtideflorida.org had anything to do with this study and have no idea if the information in it is correct. You are the doctors, you know the chemicals and the physiology not us! Please do not try this treatment just because you read it here!

Red Tide toxins attack humans and mammals lungs, liver, kidneys and brains in a variety of ways. Prolonged exposure is almost certainly 100% fatal. Red Tide toxins remain in the system long after exposure ends. Symptoms persist after exposure ends in cases of acute exposure. Treatment involves the chemical atropine and/or the chemical diphenhydramine. Other chemicals/drugs mentioned in the treatment of humans for red tide exposure are:
verapamil, atropine, tetrodotoxin and neostigmine.

Again in case you’ve missed the first time:
No one associated with redtideflorida.org had anything to do with this study and have no idea if the information in it is correct. You are the doctors, you know the chemicals and the physiology not us! Please do not try this treatment just because you read it here!

One interesting thing to note, the authors of this study, Mote Marine continues to imply to the public that red tide doesn’t do much more than cause “respiratory irritation” However read this quote from their own study:

“potential health effects associated with inhaled brevetoxins may extend beyond the reportedly transient respiratory irritation reported by humans exposed to Florida red tide brevetoxin aerosol”>