I feel like a jerk for making light of the situation... if you are having any of the symptoms described seek medical attention... I pulled this article from MASNA
Symptoms of Exposure
Given the nature of palytoxin to be nonspecific in its cellular targets, there are multiple symptoms that can be indicative of exposure depending on how a victim is exposed. The initial lethal dose studies found that mice exhibited decreased locomotion, paralysis in their hind limbs, diarrhea, severe convulsions and shortness of breath. Most people who have experienced palytoxin exposure report feeling like they’re coming down with allergies, a cold, or the flu before recalling specific incidents with their reef tanks and live rock. Generally, palytoxin is lethal if ingested or injected. Contact through the skin or eyes, or by inhalation, is hazardous and still requires medical attention (Deeds 2010; Tartaglione 2016).
Pets are also at risk and symptoms include vomiting, restlessness, and heavy breathing. If you observe these symptoms in a pet after working on a reef tank or live rock that contains zoanthids, contact your veterinarian immediately. Notably, symptoms can vary based on how exposure to palytoxin occurs. Contact on unbroken skin will likely lead to general cold and flu-like symptoms with possible numbness in the limb that came in contact with palytoxin. If the skin is broken due to a scrape or a cut, the symptoms will occur much faster and can include infection, numbness and muscle pain. If palytoxin is able to enter the bloodstream it can be fatal. Ingestion, similarly, of either water or the animal themselves, can also be fatal as well as cause heart problems and breathing difficulties.
If water that has contained zoanthids or mucous from a zoanthid enters the eye through spray, or touch contact, blindness may result as well as itching, burning and redness. Inhalation of aersolized palytoxin from the spray of fragging or steam if zoanthids are mistakenly boiled when saving life rock can lead to extensive breathing difficulties and hospitalization. There is nothing in humans or their mammalian pets that isn’t susceptible to palytoxin.
