Julia Altshuler wrote: Since this is almost certain to come up in this thread eventually, I'll beat you to the punch with this: http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/brownrecluse.asp Spider bites can hurt, but they're generally not too serious. --Lia LOL! I've already explained to her this spider isn't a brown recluse. They are... reclusive (and brown! with a "fiddle"As for not serious, I don't care what snopes has to say, I saw a guy in the doctor's office who had a HUGE abcess on his leg from being bitten by one. It was gross. Not deadly, but gross. And those *are* crookneck squash, particularly nice done on the grill, brushed with a little oil. Also just fine cut into coins and steamed. Slightly sweet in taste. I use them in my squash casserole. A very nice squash they are 🙂 Jill ------------------------------------------------------RESPONSE: ten years ago on my birthday I was admitted to the hospital for a brown recluse spider bite on my stomach. Doctors said if I had waited another 24 hours chances were good I would have died because I had become an diabetic and didn't know till then. The worst part of hospital stay was doctors coming in my room at 5am couple of days later and using a scapel had to remove dead tissue from bite area and taking samples which later learned they were looking for eggs not knowing if spider was male or female.
Ok this just happened after me going and visiting the site with the horrid spider bite and the resulting nacrosis. I grabbed a towel out of our little bath so I could dry my hair. Holding the towel facing me and head down to pop it over my head, this huge (could be huger than it really was but still a good 3/4" diameter) spider was lurking 🙁 I damn near [censored] myself being very paranoid over spiders. Once I started breathing again and the heart was pumping, I had presence of mind to stomp the living bejesus out of it and dump it into the toilet. DH was pretty proud of my wonderful accomplishment that I left in the toilet for him to see. Except, I hadn't stomped it enough it was still trying to crawl out! Flush, flush, oh what a relief it is. That thing could have been in my head biting its heart out. I'm pretty sure nacrosis in the head would not be a very good thing.
Julia Altshuler wrote: Since this is almost certain to come up in this thread eventually, I'll beat you to the punch with this: http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/brownrecluse.asp Spider bites can hurt, but they're generally not too serious. --Lia LOL! I've already explained to her this spider isn't a brown recluse. They are... reclusive (and brown! with a "fiddle"As for not serious, I don't care what snopes has to say, I saw a guy in the doctor's office who had a HUGE abcess on his leg from being bitten by one. It was gross. Not deadly, but gross. And those *are* crookneck squash, particularly nice done on the grill, brushed with a little oil. Also just fine cut into coins and steamed. Slightly sweet in taste. I use them in my squash casserole. A very nice squash they are 🙂 Jill ------------------------------------------------------RESPONSE: ten years ago on my birthday I was admitted to the hospital for a brown recluse spider bite on my stomach. Doctors said if I had waited another 24 hours chances were good I would have died because I had become an diabetic and didn't know till then. The worst part of hospital stay was doctors coming in my room at 5am couple of days later and using a scapel had to remove dead tissue from bite area and taking samples which later learned they were looking for eggs not knowing if spider was male or female.
Ok this just happened after me going and visiting the site with the horrid spider bite and the resulting nacrosis. I grabbed a towel out of our little bath so I could dry my hair. Holding the towel facing me and head down to pop it over my head, this huge (could be huger than it really was but still a good 3/4" diameter) spider was lurking 🙁 I damn near [censored] myself being very paranoid over spiders. Once I started breathing again and the heart was pumping, I had presence of mind to stomp the living bejesus out of it and dump it into the toilet. DH was pretty proud of my wonderful accomplishment that I left in the toilet for him to see. Except, I hadn't stomped it enough it was still trying to crawl out! Flush, flush, oh what a relief it is. That thing could have been in my head biting its heart out. I'm pretty sure nacrosis in the head would not be a very good thing.
Julia Altshuler wrote: Since this is almost certain to come up in this thread eventually, I'll beat you to the punch with this: http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/brownrecluse.asp Spider bites can hurt, but they're generally not too serious. --Lia LOL! I've already explained to her this spider isn't a brown recluse. They are... reclusive (and brown! with a "fiddle"As for not serious, I don't care what snopes has to say, I saw a guy in the doctor's office who had a HUGE abcess on his leg from being bitten by one. It was gross. Not deadly, but gross.
Over the years, three friends of mine have been bitten by Brown Recluse spiders here in Albuquerque, where the experts all swear they don't exist. All three required necrotic excisions. The worst had to have a lump of rotted flesh the size of a fist excised from her right buttock. I've seen them in my house. They get killed on sight. I'm a little more generous to the Black Widows (Albuquerque being the Black Widow capital of the world) because the variety that lives here is very slow to anger and almost never bites.
Brown Recluses CAN kill you if you don't get medical treatment The abcess will keep spreading and become a great site for opportunistic staph infections. Since it isn't the toxin that kills you directly, they aren't considered to be officially deadly but that's a moot point if you're bitten by one out in the boonies and can't get to a hospital.
Julia Altshuler wrote: Since this is almost certain to come up in this thread eventually, I'll beat you to the punch with this: http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/brownrecluse.asp Spider bites can hurt, but they're generally not too serious. --Lia LOL! I've already explained to her this spider isn't a brown recluse. They are... reclusive (and brown! with a "fiddle"As for not serious, I don't care what snopes has to say, I saw a guy in the doctor's office who had a HUGE abcess on his leg from being bitten by one. It was gross. Not deadly, but gross.
Over the years, three friends of mine have been bitten by Brown Recluse spiders here in Albuquerque, where the experts all swear they don't exist. All three required necrotic excisions. The worst had to have a lump of rotted flesh the size of a fist excised from her right buttock. I've seen them in my house. They get killed on sight. I'm a little more generous to the Black Widows (Albuquerque being the Black Widow capital of the world) because the variety that lives here is very slow to anger and almost never bites.
Brown Recluses CAN kill you if you don't get medical treatment The abcess will keep spreading and become a great site for opportunistic staph infections. Since it isn't the toxin that kills you directly, they aren't considered to be officially deadly but that's a moot point if you're bitten by one out in the boonies and can't get to a hospital.
Over the years, three friends of mine have been bitten by Brown Recluse spiders here in Albuquerque, where the experts all swear they don't exist. All three required necrotic excisions. The worst had to have a lump of rotted flesh the size of a fist excised from her right buttock. I've seen them in my house. They get killed on sight. I'm a little more generous to the Black Widows (Albuquerque being the Black Widow capital of the world) because the variety that lives here is very slow to anger and almost never bites.
Brown Recluses CAN kill you if you don't get medical treatment The abcess will keep spreading and become a great site for opportunistic staph infections. Since it isn't the toxin that kills you directly, they aren't considered to be officially deadly but that's a moot point if you're bitten by one out in the boonies and can't get to a hospital.
I like living up north. Boy, do I appreciate living up north!
Over the years, three friends of mine have been bitten by Brown Recluse spiders here in Albuquerque, where the experts all swear they don't exist. All three required necrotic excisions. The worst had to have a lump of rotted flesh the size of a fist excised from her right buttock. I've seen them in my house. They get killed on sight. I'm a little more generous to the Black Widows (Albuquerque being the Black Widow capital of the world) because the variety that lives here is very slow to anger and almost never bites.
Brown Recluses CAN kill you if you don't get medical treatment The abcess will keep spreading and become a great site for opportunistic staph infections. Since it isn't the toxin that kills you directly, they aren't considered to be officially deadly but that's a moot point if you're bitten by one out in the boonies and can't get to a hospital.
But that can be said of any compromise to the skin. Any inscision/puncture/cut can become infected. The venom will cause *some* tissue to die, but it isn't the venom that causes infections/abscesses like what is shown in the photo - THAT is caused by secondary infection, or cellulitis, etc. The spider bite in-and-of-itself isn't that damaging. There simply isn't enough venom to cause much damage.
LOL! I've already explained to her this spider isn't a brown recluse. They are... reclusive (and brown! with a "fiddle"As for not serious, I don't care what snopes has to say, I saw a guy in the doctor's office who had a HUGE abcess on his leg from being bitten by one. It was gross. Not deadly, but gross.
Over the years, three friends of mine have been bitten by Brown Recluse spiders here in Albuquerque, where the experts all swear they don't exist.
That's because the 'experts' call them 'Desert Recluse'. Apparently quite similar in effect though.
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All three required necrotic excisions. The worst had to have a lump of rotted flesh the size of a fist excised from her right buttock. I've seen them in my house. They get killed on sight. I'm a little more generous to the Black Widows (Albuquerque being the Black Widow capital of the world) because the variety that lives here is very slow to anger and almost never bites.
Brown Recluses CAN kill you if you don't get medical treatment The abcess will keep spreading and become a great site for opportunistic staph infections. Since it isn't the toxin that kills you directly, they aren't considered to be officially deadly but that's a moot point if you're bitten by one out in the boonies and can't get to a hospital.
LOL! I've already explained to her this spider isn't a brown recluse. They are... reclusive (and brown! with a "fiddle"As for not serious, I don't care what snopes has to say, I saw a guy in the doctor's office who had a HUGE abcess on his leg from being bitten by one. It was gross. Not deadly, but gross.
Over the years, three friends of mine have been bitten by Brown Recluse spiders here in Albuquerque, where the experts all swear they don't exist.
That's because the 'experts' call them 'Desert Recluse'. Apparently quite similar in effect though.
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All three required necrotic excisions. The worst had to have a lump of rotted flesh the size of a fist excised from her right buttock. I've seen them in my house. They get killed on sight. I'm a little more generous to the Black Widows (Albuquerque being the Black Widow capital of the world) because the variety that lives here is very slow to anger and almost never bites.
Brown Recluses CAN kill you if you don't get medical treatment The abcess will keep spreading and become a great site for opportunistic staph infections. Since it isn't the toxin that kills you directly, they aren't considered to be officially deadly but that's a moot point if you're bitten by one out in the boonies and can't get to a hospital.
Over the years, three friends of mine have been bitten by Brown Recluse spiders here in Albuquerque, where the experts all swear they don't exist. All three required necrotic excisions. The worst had to have a lump of rotted flesh the size of a fist excised from her right buttock. I've seen them in my house. They get killed on sight. I'm a little more generous to the Black Widows (Albuquerque being the Black Widow capital of the world) because the variety that lives here is very slow to anger and almost never bites.
Brown Recluses CAN kill you if you don't get medical treatment The abcess will keep spreading and become a great site for opportunistic staph infections. Since it isn't the toxin that kills you directly, they aren't considered to be officially deadly but that's a moot point if you're bitten by one out in the boonies and can't get to a hospital.
I like living up north. Boy, do I appreciate living up north!
Carol
Ah but we have other goodies too: Hantavirus, plague (yes that one), West Nile virus, bears, coyotes and bobcats. And that's just in the urban areas :p
But the green chiles almost make up for it. Crop is coming in now yumyumyum.
