Horror as huge jellyfish 'wraps tentacles all over four-year-old boy's body and face'

A mum has described the horrific moment her four-year-old boy was pulled from the sea screaming as a jellyfish wrapped his tentacles around his body and face.

The tot had been playing on the beach with his six-year-old brother just metres away from his parents when they heard him call out, according to a US media report.

The boys were playing in the water at about chest height when the youngest “popped up and started screaming".

His mum said her husband jumped to his feet and began running towards the boys at Eisman’s Beach in Massachusetts, USA , according to the Daily Item newspaper.

She said: "He was covered in these tentacles that were wrapped around his belly and around his body all the way up to his face.

The boy was playing in the water with his brother (stock image) (Getty Images)

She told the paper her husband carefully removed the “many” tentacles and the family rushed back to their home nearby to pour vinegar on the boy’s wounds.

The mother said luckily after around 15 minutes, the pain subsided, and the boy is feeling normal but the whole family was shaken by the incident.

“When my husband took the tentacles off of him, and even after putting the vinegar on, it looked like my son had been whipped,” she added. “He had these raised, red markings.”

The jellyfish are not thought to be deadly but their stings can be painful (stock image) (Getty Images/National Geographic Image Collection RF)

She added that a family friend's son had also been stung this weekend.

Town Administrator Sean Fitzgerald said on Sunday that the town’s Health Department “has been evaluating the situation,” but said people should not be scared to go in the water.  

In the UK a dad captured an unnerving photo of his five-year-old daughter dwarfed by a giant 6ft 'sea demon' jellyfish that washed up on a Welsh beach.

Dom Faux was having a father-daughter day with Erin at Colwyn Bay Beach in North Wales on Sunday when they spotted the huge lion's mane jellyfish.

The whopping crimson sea creature, which electrician Dom said measured about 6ft across, was stranded in the sand waiting for the tide to come in and wash it back out to sea.

Careful not to let Eryn too close due to its powerful sting, Dom, 42, quickly snapped a shot of her posing next to the stunning animal for scale.