If you're interested in spider bites the world over, this is for you!!

http://reference.medscape.com/...&impID=1403872&faf=1

Enjoy!!

RMD

Thank you.

Every time there's one of these threads, hope that there'll be a good photo of a Sparklemuffin, [Belushi] but NOoooooo!!! [/Belushi]

Nope, not gonna look at no spider bites, not gonna do it, wouldn't be prudent - 'sides, there will absolutely be a photo of a brown recluse bite and those freak me out, man.

Nuke it from orbit !

Thanks, RMD. Y'all carry on and have fun. Ain't no way in hell that I'm going clickie on that linkie.

I already store my work gloves in the kitchen so a brown recluse won't crawl the fuck down inside one of them.

Very interesting.
One of my employees was bitten, on the ankle, by a brown recluse.
The venom ate through her skin to the bone.
Very painful.
Eventually a drug regimen prevented bite from spreading further.
Nasty critters.

Spiders really don't bother me...spider bites...that's another thing altogether ...

I think I will just leave the link closed

Shudder.....

"No known cases....". That's because the victims died and didn't make it back to civilization. Pain, gangrene, asphyxiation - yea, people wonder why I don't like spiders.

Here's a question for the architect of the universe;

If spiders are designed to occassionally hunt and kill prey in the same general size as them, WTF do they need venom this potent for, or in such a volume that it can kill/maim a human-sized victim?

It's mostly digestive enzymes that they use on their prey. They aren't aggressive towards us and people who get bit usually squeeze them accidently -- like putting on a glove. Once bitten the digestive enzymes just continue to slowly digest away making a nasty wound that is slow to heal and easy to become infected.

I lived with humungous spiders, in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. How big? Well, one ran across my face one night-- and I heard him coming on the pillow.

You need a login for that link

I was seriously disappointed--expected to see some big cavity in deep tissue down to bone, or at least actual debridement photos. Mostly just glam photos of colorful spiders.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
I was seriously disappointed--expected to see some big cavity in deep tissue down to bone, or at least actual debridement photos. Mostly just glam photos of colorful spiders.

You are plain creepy... and a doctor ...so all is excused!

Thanks! I. Bookmarking that link for future reference.

The link worked earlier, now requires a password.

Anyways, I used to work at a major winery during night shift. One of my main duties was to go out with my tricycle full of lab equipment to various silo tanks to gather samples.
The amount of black widows is unreal. In certain parts of the winery, I can literally stand in one spot and count close to 100 of them without taking a step.
I kept a can of wasp spray on the bike most times.

You never parked your bike or kart near the walls anywhere and have to watch each step you take while going up the spiral steps to the tops of the tanks.

I swore that I would be bitten sometime though my time there, but never happened thankfully.

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Originally posted by justjoe:
I lived with humungous spiders, in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. How big? Well, one ran across my face one night-- and I heard him coming on the pillow.

Well..... Thanks a hell of a lot C. I'm putting off going to bed for fear of enormous Them!-like spiders galloping across the pillows...

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
Here's a question for the architect of the universe;

If spiders are designed to occassionally hunt and kill prey in the same general size as them, WTF do they need venom this potent for, or in such a volume that it can kill/maim a human-sized victim?

Well, since you asked, it's Nature's way of saying "don't touch."

Sorry in advance hahahahaha!

I clicked on the link, only so I could try to diagnose what the hell bit me. But I'm certain it wasn't a recluse or widow.

Something bit me while I was sleeping 8 nights ago, and I still have a welt on my wrist.
Welt has been about a 1/4" high, inflamed and warm to the touch, and was about the diameter of a quarter for a few days. It's now about a dime diameter. Hurts to straighten the wrist as the welt presses up against some nerve or tendon.

Benadryl or Claritin daily, and hydrocortisone cream daily, and still there. It's very, very slowly shrinking, and it never displayed any signs of tick bite or redness spreading, so I never did go to the doctor, as there's really not much they can usually do outside of the same treatments I've done.

All I want to know, is what was it, so I know what to incinerate on sight in the future