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Brown Recluse Bite (1 Viewer)
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glock
"Don't grumble, give a whistle!"
Sooo, the spider had to be in her sweat pants before she put them on.
Jene Bramel
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No idea. I was working an emergency department shift and it's always hard to get followup on those cases. Most bites won't be severe enough to cause any tissue destruction since the amount of venom injected tends to be very small. Hopefully, it turned out to be nothing more than the equivalent of a bad mosquito bite for him.Geez... an 18 month old? How did that end for the little guy?
STEADYMOBBIN 22
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flapgreen
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SHIZNITTTT
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Going to have surgery in a few days when it doesn't look "angry!" Words that the surgeon used at the last visit. I will update more pics ASAP. She is feeling much better and back to work. She keeps "Earl" (what she named it) covered with a tegaderm and Earl is shrinking daily.
Wingnut
Footballguy
Glad to hear shes feeling better
SHIZNITTTT
Footballguy
comfortably numb
Footballguy
God...Now that Bin Laden is gone we can focus on the more important threats.Like brown recluse spiders
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Footballguy
OMG!!
Mr. Cross
Footballguy
Sonny Lubick Blowup Doll
Footballguy
GNARLY.
Ha, love that she named it.
Ha, love that she named it.
SHIZNITTTT
Footballguy
Only if she changes the name to Jazzmin, Cinnamon, or another stripper name.
Polish Hammer
made of glass
[dancingbones]Don't be so closeminded. [/dancingbones]
SHIZNITTTT
Footballguy
Still healing slowly. A lot smaller but it will be several more months at this rate. Surgery is still not out of the question.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Glad to hear it's healing, but good lord . . .
drummer
Footballguy
Buddy of mine got bit by a spider on his middle right finger (he says it might had been a black widow) last week, didn't go to the doctor to check it out until 3 days later when his brother had to take him to the ER. He checked into a hospital right away after that, and has been in there since.
Today, they cut off that finger. I think it had to be a Brown Recluse to do that kind of damage.
Today, they cut off that finger. I think it had to be a Brown Recluse to do that kind of damage.
Vike Me
Footballguy
I was bit on my inner thigh about 8 or 2 inches from my wiener about 3 years ago - no shtick. only got the nasty circle bruise but no fever and I still have my wiener.
Godsbrother
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NCCommish
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Fat Nick
Footballguy
Interesting measurements. Were they dependent on which way said wiener was hanging at the time?
Godsbrother
Footballguy
Nope. Mainly the south and midwest:The Captain said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Loxosceles_reclusa_range.png
comfortably numb
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igbomb
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igbomb
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Jobber
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Mr.Pack
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My nephew got bit on the ankle by a spider a couple days ago. Yesterday it got really painful, red and a blackish, blueish in the middle. They took him to the walk-in clinic and the doc said he was bitten by a Brown Recluse.
I have my doubts as we are in WI and I didn't think they migrated this far north. Gave him some antibiotics, incised it and sent him home. Today it's much more red and he has a fever so they just took him to the ER.
Comparing pictures, it kind of looks like a BR bite and kind of not. I think maybe he got stung by a wasp and it' got infected, but I guess we'll see.
I have my doubts as we are in WI and I didn't think they migrated this far north. Gave him some antibiotics, incised it and sent him home. Today it's much more red and he has a fever so they just took him to the ER.
Comparing pictures, it kind of looks like a BR bite and kind of not. I think maybe he got stung by a wasp and it' got infected, but I guess we'll see.
DA RAIDERS
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My neighbor just got bit by one of these. Nasty red blister the size of 3-4 stacked nickels
BustedKnuckles
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University of California at Riverside entomologist Richard Vetter has been studying brown recluse spiders for 14 years and describes his efforts as ''a crusade.''
Californians - and others around the country - have been trying to convince him for years that they have seen or been bitten by a brown recluse. Very few have ever produced one, he said.
He has received more than 60 spider specimens from New England in that time and none were brown recluses.
On the other hand, 59 specimens have been sent to him from Missouri, a state within the spider's range, and 58 of them were true brown recluses, he said.
He is most concerned with the misdiagnoses of brown recluse bites that are actually other medical conditions.
Bites from ticks, mites, bedbugs (which are becoming more common after nearly 50 years of absence in this country), a secondary staphylococcus or streptococcus bacterial infection and even cancer have all been mistaken for recluse spider bites, he said.
A brown recluse bite can develop a bull's-eye rash around it in the same way as a Lyme disease-infected tick bite, he said.
Vetter was contacted by a Rhode Island man last year whose doctor diagnosed a bite on his leg as a brown recluse bite.
At Vetter's urging, he pursued the idea of a tick bite and tested positive for Lyme.
A Martha's Vineyard woman also diagnosed as having a recluse spider bite turned out to have impetigo, he said.
Most doctors who diagnose a brown recluse bite treat with antibiotics, which have no effect on the problem, he said.
Most bites heal easily
Ninety percent of actual brown recluse bites heal easily with rest, elevation and ice, Vetter said.
An emerging problem, especially in crowded conditions like prisons, military barracks, dormitories and athletic locker rooms, is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
The hard-to-treat and contagious malady can look like lots of insect bites on a person, Vetter said.
As for the disturbing e-mail going around, both Vetter and Potter said it has been circulating since 2003.
Vetter said he has received it from people in several countries, and each one attributes the bite to spiders indigenous to that country.
Few spiders in this country pose a real risk to humans, since they are simply not designed to bite through human skin, Simser said.
''Their usual MO is to just run awa hide,'' he said. ''Why would they attack us? There's nothing in it for them.''
Californians - and others around the country - have been trying to convince him for years that they have seen or been bitten by a brown recluse. Very few have ever produced one, he said.
He has received more than 60 spider specimens from New England in that time and none were brown recluses.
On the other hand, 59 specimens have been sent to him from Missouri, a state within the spider's range, and 58 of them were true brown recluses, he said.
He is most concerned with the misdiagnoses of brown recluse bites that are actually other medical conditions.
Bites from ticks, mites, bedbugs (which are becoming more common after nearly 50 years of absence in this country), a secondary staphylococcus or streptococcus bacterial infection and even cancer have all been mistaken for recluse spider bites, he said.
A brown recluse bite can develop a bull's-eye rash around it in the same way as a Lyme disease-infected tick bite, he said.
Vetter was contacted by a Rhode Island man last year whose doctor diagnosed a bite on his leg as a brown recluse bite.
At Vetter's urging, he pursued the idea of a tick bite and tested positive for Lyme.
A Martha's Vineyard woman also diagnosed as having a recluse spider bite turned out to have impetigo, he said.
Most doctors who diagnose a brown recluse bite treat with antibiotics, which have no effect on the problem, he said.
Most bites heal easily
Ninety percent of actual brown recluse bites heal easily with rest, elevation and ice, Vetter said.
An emerging problem, especially in crowded conditions like prisons, military barracks, dormitories and athletic locker rooms, is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
The hard-to-treat and contagious malady can look like lots of insect bites on a person, Vetter said.
As for the disturbing e-mail going around, both Vetter and Potter said it has been circulating since 2003.
Vetter said he has received it from people in several countries, and each one attributes the bite to spiders indigenous to that country.
Few spiders in this country pose a real risk to humans, since they are simply not designed to bite through human skin, Simser said.
''Their usual MO is to just run awa hide,'' he said. ''Why would they attack us? There's nothing in it for them.''
BustedKnuckles
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SHIZNITTTT
Footballguy
The doctor that treated my wife years ago (actually a plastic surgeon) said the only way to be bitten is to squish the spider against you in your sock, underwear, bra or something to that manner. The brown recluse cannot attack you and bite without you forcing it's hand so to speak. Very few doctors have actually seen a brown recluse bite so when my wife had her hospital stay numerous doctors and residents wanted to see the wound.
So am I an idiot for slipping my feet in my slippers without shaking the out first?
NCCommish
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SHIZNITTTT
Footballguy
Chances are slim. But, the doctor told us about a lady who lost her right breast from putting on a bra that had one of those bastages in it.
BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
Jaysus
Good times!
