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Thread: Spider bite?
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01-08-2018, 07:24 #11
Re: Spider bite?
This is what my bite looked like;
Note two holes.
Necrosis cause the flesh to rot away hence the need for antibiotics.
On the mend
Back to normal
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01-08-2018, 08:00 #12
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01-08-2018, 08:04 #13
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Re: Spider bite?
Been there, done that back in 1993. Bitten on my right leg. By day 4 it looked like I'd been bitten by a Puff Adder My GP did the same, sprayed what I thought was liquid nitrogen on it, lanced it and scraped it out. I was between passing out and puking after I saw what came out. Black blood (or so it looked), puss and other NASTY stuff.
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01-08-2018, 08:12 #16
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Re: Spider bite?
That's the one, I remember it well. Lucky you caught yours early. My right leg had a hole I could stick my pinky finger into up to the first joint. Needless to say it took about 3 months to heal. From what I've read, it all depends on how much venom is injected (which seems obvious), as some bites are dry. The luck of the draw it seems.
Glad you're healed Andrew. Did you ever see the culprit or rather find what was left of him?
The common denominator seems to be that the culprit is almost never seen or found afterwards.
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01-08-2018, 10:25 #17
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Re: Spider bite?
So the antibiotics have nothing to do with the spider bite, it is just to stop any bacterial infection that might come from necrosis.
It cannot stop the spreading or the action of the venom, nor the size of the wound cavity.
Is this correct?
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01-08-2018, 10:45 #18
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01-08-2018, 11:26 #19
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Re: Spider bite?
Yes but bites are rare.
What bothers me is spiders are very delicate creatures, you roll over on one in the bed and it's dead, it might bite you but it will die. So in essence people should find dead spiders in their beds if this is where they are bitten. Anybody will make the connection if they develop symptoms. So I don't really understand why so few spider bites are identified.
Also some people say most of the bites are attributed to sac spiders not violin spiders, because they are more aggressive.
I dunno, just because I have seen a natural bacterial infection in the skin look exactly like a spider bite. Some bacterial infections enters small wounds and the result might just be a carbon copy of a spider bite. People also leave these a long time before they take antibiotics and often the affected wound cavity is of the same dimensions.
With the sheer amount of people we have, and the number of spiders living all around us, yet the few recorded bites, I think statistically someone must be REALLY unlucky to get bitten by one.
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01-08-2018, 13:25 #20
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It's almost impossible to diagnose a spider bite unless you actually see it happen these wounds have all sorts of origins from splinters ingrown hairs or even just a blocked pore what really causes the damage is the bacterial infection that this invites hence the usual quick reaction and recovery after starting antibiotics
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