Heavy rains coupled with high tide over the last few days have been a dampener for locals who like to enjoy a walk on the Juhu beach. But to add to their misery, venomous Blue Bottles, a type of jellyfish, have started swarming the popular tourist destination.

Blue Bottles are usually found in deep waters. Pic/Shailesh Bhatia

Thirty-year-old Rameshwar Gupta, a businessman from Indore, who is in Mumbai to celebrate his wife Preeti’s birthday, sustained extensive stings on his right ankle after he was stung by these jellyfish on Saturday afternoon. “I’m in a lot of pain, which is shooting up right from my ankle to my thighs and stomach,” Gupta told sunday mid-day.

Senior BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) lifeguard, Manohar Shetty, discovered the first batch of Blue Bottles on Juhu beach at around 7 am on Saturday. “We informed the BMC’s control room and the civic health department and requested them to dispatch emergency first aid, comprising oral tablets and lotion, to ease Gupta’s pain and also reduce the symptoms of the sting,” informed Shetty.