A stretch of beach in Atlantic City, N.J. (FOX 5 NY file photo) NEW JERSEY - Some cases of seabather's eruption—a sometimes painful skin rash that emerges after recreating in the ocean surf—have been reported in folks spending time at the Jersey Shore, from Cape May on up to Monmouth County, according to the Asbury Park Press.So what causes this rash?
Sea lice. Though the term was coined in Florida in the 1950s, sea lice are not lice (as in insects that hide in your hair) at all but rather the tiny larvae of certain kinds of jellyfish, often the thimble jellyfish, or the larvae of sea anemones.
True sea lice are small crustaceans, which are entirely different organisms.Thimble jellyfish, also known as sea thimbles, are common in the Gulf of.