All in the thread title.
I used to think that way, until the brown, got the ring around the bite, swelling redness, then purple and black, and then chunks fell out; it was a really bad experience that I wished I had treated sooner.Spider bites I don’t treat or seek medical help. I do keep an eye on the bite (as I do for other insect bites) to confirm it isn’t turning in a serious condition.
You missed it bro, you cut the needle entirely off and use the suction to remove the venom.I agree with everything @Magus said except for the Syringe, I don't do needles (pass out) due to bad young exposures. Back on topic, I have direct experience with the brown recluse, that bugger will wreck your week (many days) and you will not forget it...
Straying from topic a bit........good story for Hashbrown......an older lady I cleaned for ( she's been gone several years) cut the end of her finger off when she was a kid. She said her mom soaked strips of material in kerosene and wrapped the finger, severed tip in place, and told her not to even slightly bump it!! She wasn't sure how long or how many bandage changes, but the finger tip grew back on!! The skin and nail were darker than the rest of the finger!My grandfather was bit by copperheads twice that I remember he swore by kerosene. He would soak a rag in Kerosene and wrap it around the bite for a few days. I don’t know if he it actually helped much but that’s what he did for most types of bites. He was tougher than most folks though.
This used to be true in Colorado, until we had a news story about a guy in a state prison who was bitten by one. They travel in packages and other shipped items. I imagine packages and other things get shipped to Alaska, and there fore, brown recluse do as well.There are NO "Brown Recluse" in Alaska. But very rarely someone will get bite by one that was in furniture shipped to Alaska.
@Peanut wolf spiders get smushed at my house. When I was in high school I had a water bed that was nice and toasty warm during winter. The damn wolf spiders loved that bed. I woke up with one crawling on me more than once, and got bitten a couple times. The bites are minor, looking like a large pimple that gets hard and crusty. They don't hurt much, they're just annoying. But those experiences gave me a life long hatred of wolf spiders, and spiders in general. The black and yellow garden spiders and the little jumping spiders can vanish too, for all I care...Thankfully Brown recluse spiders live up to their name. They are very reclusive, will not stay in areas with a lot of movement. They stay out of the way, hidden in places that aren't disturbed... like closets. A busy household has little to worry about. 99% of the time when i see them, they are outside in the shop or barns. They love dusty old buildings.
That's also their achilles heel. They can't survive hard freezes. Check the hard freeze line on a weather map of the country... that's the boundary. South of that line they survive winters and live season to season. North of that line, not so much. Might see one if they hitch a ride on a truck or in a pkg but they won't survive the following winter. They love hot weather...
I take precautions in my home... like when seasons change and I swap winter/summer clothes. I'll got through all of the ones i bring out carefully. The only b recluse spiders I see in my home are young males out looking for a mate, happen to wander into my neighborhood. They die quickly.
In summer I occasionally get a wolf spider in the house, have one now living in my bathroom. They earned their name... they kill any creepy crawly that gets in my house. After a week or so they run out of food, get hungry and wander back outside. Normally i hate spiders but make an exception for the wolf spider.
I agree, spiders SUCK! I'd rather have the other bugs!!My coworker was bitten by a spider just last week. No water to tell for sure what kind of spider, but the bite has signs of the brown recluse. It got him on the outside of his thigh. It began to swell after a day and the area turned really red and hard and the second day began to itch. He said it was like having bugs crawling under his skin. When the redness began to spread he went to the ER. Brown recluse venom has bacteria in it, apparently, and that causes the necrosis. The antibiotics began to help right away, but he still missed 5 days of work.
Spiders are nothing to ignore. I don't mind them outside but if they get in my house they're goners. I don't care if they eat bugs or not...
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