Brown Recluse Spider Bite
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What can I say??? 
Beekissed
Mountain Sage
When my son was a teenager he got bit by BR 5 times...on the abdomen, on the leg, on the arm and once inside his nose. All very painful and only one had to have antibiotic intervention, so it could be they were from baby recluse. He was at a military camp and they failed to tell the parents they had a BR infestation there...and they let the boys come home for a visit too, bringing the spiders on home with them~he got a few of those bites when he was home on leave.
We fumigated his room, washed all his kit and no one else got bitten but those bites were hard to heal and very painful.
When I was working an emergency clinic a lady came in with a bite on her forehead...by the time it was finished necrosing she had a black hole in her forehead you could stick a pencil eraser completely down in to. I figure she had to have plastic surgery on that hole.
Seems to affect different people in different ways but I've read that it can come back to haunt you many years down the road in the nature of eruptions that are like boils, organ failure, etc.
We fumigated his room, washed all his kit and no one else got bitten but those bites were hard to heal and very painful.
When I was working an emergency clinic a lady came in with a bite on her forehead...by the time it was finished necrosing she had a black hole in her forehead you could stick a pencil eraser completely down in to. I figure she had to have plastic surgery on that hole.
Seems to affect different people in different ways but I've read that it can come back to haunt you many years down the road in the nature of eruptions that are like boils, organ failure, etc.
farmerjan
Super Self-Sufficient
I have heard that it is pretty bad, do not have the experience of seeing it like you @Beekissed and I don't think I want to. Bless those that have had to deal with it.... worse than Lyme disease at the outset, yet there seem to be long term repercussions from both. My mom and son have both had serious Lyme reactions and I think that it will cause my son more problems down the road.
I don't hate spiders, but don't particularly like them either.... except do admire the one that makes the huge web in early fall outside.... and it is a BIG one, yellow and black. I admire from a distance.... I know they have a place.... but.......
I don't hate spiders, but don't particularly like them either.... except do admire the one that makes the huge web in early fall outside.... and it is a BIG one, yellow and black. I admire from a distance.... I know they have a place.... but.......
Britesea
Sustainability Master
I read that there are so many spiders in the world that you are never more than 5 feet away from one at any given moment. Of course, most of them are so small we don't even notice them.
moxies_chickennuggets
Super Self-Sufficient
Good to know, and see the picture of a BR again. Sorry to hear you went through such trauma. Being bitten by a little bad guy critter can be just awful.
I am the one doing the mowing and weed trimming here, but dear old (95) dad insists on getting down on his hands and knees to do weeding. ugh
I am the one doing the mowing and weed trimming here, but dear old (95) dad insists on getting down on his hands and knees to do weeding. ugh
Beekissed
Mountain Sage
Might want to set off some bombs in that area.
Britesea
Sustainability Master
bug bombs don't usually work on spiders. First, the commonest poisons used in "bug bombs" don't work on arachnids. Second, the fogger types don't usually manage to penetrate a lot of the cracks that spiders hide in. Thirdly, a lot of spider-specific ones are actually just repellants, which means the spiders may simply move to a different part of your house. I have heard that Raid's Deep Reach Concentrated bug bomb is pretty good however.
