This drug may cause side effects such as headaches, nausea, and vomiting. Oral albendazole has a high cure rate in a dosage of 400 mg for five consecutive days. Lesions affect areas of the skin covered by swimwear, particularly those that are subjected to pressure or friction, such as the waistline, axillae, neck, and inner thighs. The larvae of the thimble jellyfish Linuche unguiculata , which are washed ashore by ocean currents, have been identified as the cause of seabather's eruption in southern Florida and the Caribbean. Similar outbreaks on Long Island, New York, are thought to be caused by larvae of Edwardsiella lineata .
Treatment is symptomatic and includes antihistamines, topical antipruritic agents, and steroids.
The skin eruption appears approximately 12 hours after contact with seawater as a pruritic papulovesicular dermatitis on exposed skin sites. The inflammatory response is attributed to dermatologic penetration by cercariae, which are the free-swimming larvae of M. variglandis and other bird schistosomes. Treatment is symptomatic and includes antihistamines, topical antipruritic agents, topical corticosteroids, and antibiotic treatment of superimposed bacterial infection. They can also cause considerable cutaneous symptoms, particularly if the symptoms are associated with an allergic hypersensitivity reaction, as seen in papular urticaria. Two common species that infest cats and dogs are Ctenocephalides felis and C. canis .