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mj
04-02-2008 09:19:28
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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pair-a-dice farms said: (quoted from post at 20:48:15 04/01/08) Here is a link to a first aid ointment for brown recluse bites. I had a friend that had got bitten last year, they had one of the kits and used it. When they went to the doctor the next day he told them that it lessened the severity of the bite considerably. I keep one in the house now.
Link ..... Thanks! Here's a link to a page on there that shows the distribution of this type of spider: Link
We've got them around here; we call them fiddle-back spiders. My neighbor across the road has them but doesn't have black widows; I don't have the fiddle-backs but do have the widows. I figured that maybe the widows eat the recluses :shock: but ..... who knows?
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730 virgil
04-02-2008 07:28:02
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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son of a friends of ours put on old pair of tennis to help his dad in barn. brown recluse was also using shoe for a home. he got bite and soon had a very sore foot, his mom thought he was trying to put one over on her as he didn't want to do something. when she looked at his foot she took him to doctor who told them it's a good thing you didn't wait any longer. he had problems for 3 or 4 months with that foot.
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El Toro
04-02-2008 06:08:40
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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 Here's a picture of the Brown Recluse Spider. Hal
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NCWayne
04-02-2008 06:06:41
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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My sister got bit on the right side of her belly about 14 years ago while working in the office at a bolt and nut distrubitor. They think she actually got bit out in the warehouse, not in the office itself. Either way when Isaw the bite it didn"t look quite as bad as the pic but it did leave a pretty sizable wound and a nice scar when it finally healed. The brown recluse releases a necrotoxin which literally kills the cell tissue in the area around the bite. Once the tissue actually dies it gets to looking like the guys hand in the pic. Actually it looks alot like the results from a bad case of frostbite where the same thing happens and the tissue dies. Different reasons for the tissue death, but about the same results. Just for the record a brown recluse or "fiddle back" is typically a smaller spider but I think alot of people tend to mistake the wolf spider, which usually get rather large, as being one of them since they tend to inhabit the same types of places. I don"t know that I"ve ever seen a "large" recluse but I caught a female wolf spider several years ago who"s legs were larger around than a wide mouth mason jar. Dad said it was the biggest spider he had ever seen. I also caught a black widow about a year ago and put her egg sack in with her intending to send it to school with my room mate"s son. They like getting things like that so the city kids have a chance to actually see the spiders that they should avoid. I stuck the plastic jar on a shelf in the shop and forgot about it for several weeks. When I finally remembered it the eggs had hatched and there were probably a thousand little bitty spiders all over the inside of the jar. Needless to say there there was a double layer of masking tape got put over the existing air holes on the top to keep the little buggers in. The teacher loved it because it was something you don"t typically get to see.
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dave2
04-02-2008 02:15:38
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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I went to training and was later stationed at FLW, Mo. I don't think there was a wall anywhere on post that didn't have pictures of all the poisonous snakes of the area and our friendly brown recluse spider alongside the horror pictures of people that were bit. Funny part was, as much time as we spent in the woods and on ranges etc, the people that were bit was bit in the barracks. Guess the spider didn't like the heat either.
Dave
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buickanddeere
04-01-2008 21:16:25
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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All true.
Buddy of mine was bit on the mid section during vacation in Texas. I would have killed him except for 3-4 of inches of beer belly. Had a drain tube in there for weeks.
Only good thing about it, he's never had gout since.
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tractormiallis
04-01-2008 20:21:51
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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Link
A site with lots of info from their territory to how to protect yourself.
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Bendee
04-02-2008 05:58:29
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to tractormiallis, 04-01-2008 20:21:51
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Sleep well tonight.. The picture is real.. bite after 9 days. www.ascendedhealth.com/brown-recluse/bite-picture.htm.
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pair-a-dice farms
04-01-2008 19:48:15
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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Here is a link to a first aid ointment for brown recluse bites. I had a friend that had got bitten last year, they had one of the kits and used it. When they went to the doctor the next day he told them that it lessened the severity of the bite considerably. I keep one in the house now. http://www.brown-recluse.com/index.html
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dan67
04-01-2008 19:35:25
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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We have Brown Recluses in are area and they are one bad fellow.
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E.B. Haymakin'
04-01-2008 18:11:50
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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I live in a brown recluse area, and have been bitten by one. I kill them all. One female can produce 80 off spring. A shed or out building in our area can become infested in a short time. I spray quite regularly. The small ones are bad, but these things can get big. I have seen them as large as 50 cent coin or dollar coin. Those I am afraid of, they are very aggressive also. They can travel to! I had a coworker at my former job that was retired from Chrysler Corp. He worked in Detroit or Lansing in one of the factories. He was uncrating some machinery, or parts from South America. He had one fall on him, and bite him on the forhead, still has the scar to this day. That was years ago.
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rodgernbama
04-02-2008 18:59:36
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to E.B. Haymakin', 04-01-2008 18:11:50
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What do you use to spray them with?
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Larry D.
04-01-2008 17:59:04
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to El Toro, 04-01-2008 17:47:38
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I'm Sure that those Spiders are Vicous,But that looks somewhat like a "Doctored' Photo,the second(2) one I stand corrected if Wrong..Larry KF4LKU
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36 coupe
04-02-2008 02:52:24
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to Larry D., 04-01-2008 17:59:04
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A boy who was bitten here spent many weeks in a Boston hospital.Beware of Doctors who dont under stand the brown recluse problem.Farmer was in my shop with a bandaged forearm.Doc thought it was an allergy to hay.Farmer said a sac of pus formed in 2 days.He got bit picking up baled hay in the field.
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Big Mike
04-01-2008 18:12:05
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to Larry D., 04-01-2008 17:59:04
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D@mn! I coulda lived without seein' that! Chop his Effin HAND off, before he loses his whole A R M !!!!! !!
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Matt Kane
04-01-2008 18:03:46
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to Larry D., 04-01-2008 17:59:04
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Thats a real photo. I have known men to lose their legs because of a spider bite from a brown recluse. He was bit in the upper leg, and after a week had a hole that he could stick his fist into to bone. They aren't anything to be near thats for sure. I have seen worse than this, just type in spider bite in a search engine, and see what pain people suffer from these things.
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VaTom
04-01-2008 18:03:38
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to Larry D., 04-01-2008 17:59:04
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Brown recluse bite is serious. Checking into a hospital is normal, in the hope they can keep you alive until you recover.
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ErnieDD
04-01-2008 18:02:44
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to Larry D., 04-01-2008 17:59:04
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It is not doctored. I have a video of a fellow bit on the leg. If you live in brown recluse territory and you think you have been bit, find a physician that has experience treating the bite.
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Larry D.
04-01-2008 18:04:28
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to ErnieDD, 04-01-2008 18:02:44
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Old Roy agiin
04-01-2008 20:47:05
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Re: OT:Spider Bite By a Brown Recluse Spider in reply to Larry D., 04-01-2008 18:04:28
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Larry I'm not trying to jag you. I know a fellow that got bit by a spider,I think around here we call them "wolf spiders"on the back side of his knee.That thumb looks good. My freind never did get full use of his leg after that.
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