are bullheads poisonious

[cichlidkid123]

Well i went fishing today with my older brother. I caught some big sunnies. 4 of them are around 9 inches. Then i suddenly caught a 2 inch bullhead. I took it off its hook and i got stabbed. It went in pretty deep. Lots of blood were flowing out. Than about 5 minutes later i started becoming dizzy. Than five minues after i was dizzy everything became black. It took me 30 minutes just to see right again. And an hour for me to stand straight. Plz tell me if they are poisonious. Thanks

[Solace]

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[Donimal28]

bullheads do have some sort of poison on the tips of their fins, but i've never heard of anyone blacking out from it before, usually just an irritating sting.

[heavy_t]

We have something called a Bullhead (aka Miller's Thumb) in the UK. My cat catches them from time to time from the stream at the back of our garden! From the perch family with a spiny first dorsal fin, gets to about 15cm/6". Not quite sure we're talking about the same fish though :confused:

[Solace]

No he is talking about a catfish.

[Glaive]

Heavy_t sounds like a kind of stickleback.

If one had an allergic reaction to the toxin they could come near passing out, but I would think shock was a more likely suspect.

[aharris]

I've been finned by bullheads and channel cats plenty of times, and while they tend to swell and sting like a cat scratch, I've never had an experience like you describe. I would suspect shock before an allergic reaction myself, I would imagine an allergic reaction would also be accompanied by other syptoms of allergic reaction like anaphalaxis or a rash like hives or anything else that wouldn't go away without medical attention of some sort. You'd have been more than dizzy in short, and in that space of time that the reaction showed up, if it had been allergic, you most likely would have required an ambulance and emergency care.

Shock can do some funny things to you. I know. I don't like needles very much. For some reason, once when I had to get a tetanus booster, I went into shock. I turned sheet white, got dizzy, and nearly passed out. The doctor called my mom to come pick me up because they didn't (probably rightly) think I should be driving. I had never experienced anything like it before nor have I had anything like it happen since. Just that one time.

[Glaive]

Ditto the shock is funny comment by Aharris. I have gone into shock twice in my life, once due to an extreme ankle sprain. <I still do not walk normally due to it.> The other time was silly incomparison to many other injuries, I sliced off the very tip of my finger with a plastic letuce knife.

Keep in mind I've broken bones and suffered injuries far more grevious than the letuce knife, but it was my worse reaction due to shock.

Kind of funny that a guy can break several ribs, dislocate his shoulder and suffer many lacerations in one accident and walk two and a half miles for help through the sierra nevadas, and yet he can colapse due to a letuce knife. ;)

Some may argue situation, they may be right, in your sistuation it may have been safe to succumb to shock as was the case in my letuce incident.