Crab Pinch Injury

I have gotten pincered by crayfish before and it hurts.

Crab pinch injury. If finger or part of finger is severed put the severed part in a clean plastic bag pack the bag in ice and take it with you to the. But blue crabs don t just use their claws to find food. Crab claws can be used for defense food gathering digging and for sexual displays. Apply firm pressure until bleeding stops.

They have powerful muscles that allow the crab to pinch and inflict injury. If you step on an urchin the spines will probably break off and lodge in your foot producing a painful wound. The problem with these types of injuries is that marine organism can create nasty infections. In that case no worse than a serious pinch but they are tiny compared to an adult lobster.

Those claws are all muscle. I used to be an undersea medical officer almost all my divers with underwater injuries ended up with infections no matter how well we cleaned things out. If you don t know or it has been more than 10 years then please get one. Sea urchins are covered in sharp spines coated with venom.

Far stronger than a human hand consider the width of your finger to a lobster claw. A blue crab s strong claws allow it to crack open or pry apart the shells of clams snails mussels and more in its search for a meal. They can also use the powerful pincers to defend themselves. Enilno august 29 2011 2 35pm 5.

If the spines aren t. This is only about crabs not lobsters or other clawed crustaceans. Gulf of mexico is where it all went down. Crab does not have rabies only mammals like dogs and cats have this rabies infectious disease.