4/24/2024 0 Comments Ouch spider bit me![]() Always wrap ice or an ice pack in a cloth. Knowing more about your spiders may decrease the anxiety you feel about having them around. To me, spider bites are so different from other insect bites. For nonvenomous spider bites, follow these steps: Apply an ice pack on and off the bite for 10 minutes at a time. Consider taking photographs of your spiders and posting them to the ID request section of BugGuide. (A house centipede in my shirt- ouch.) But on the whole I believe them to be far more beneficial than harmful. I know from personal experience that having arthropod predators in your home can lead to painful encounters. House dust mites and cockroaches are far more dangerous than spiders because their degraded exoskeletons and fecal material can become airborne, thereby inducing allergic reactions such as asthma in sensitized people. ![]() Spiders probably play an important role in regulating the unseen ecosystem without homes. Your mother's case sounds realistically linked to a spider, but the other stories you have heard may not be from spiders. There are frequent “epidemics” of spider bite diagnoses that are actually from other causes. When there are unexplained skin lesions, spiders are frequently blamed (even by physicians) without any evidence. The horror stories (and horror pictures) readily available on the internet usually have no real connection to an arthropod. But there are key ways to tell the difference between a spider, mosquito, and tick bite. Symptoms of spider bites can include pain, swelling, itching, muscle pain, difficulty breathing, nausea, vomiting, and in severe cases, blisters or ulcers. Most insect bites are mild and only cause minor irritation, but its important to be aware of them because some bites can cause disease. Since the development of antivenoms, spider bite deaths in Australia have become extremely rare, with only one recorded death from a Redback bite in the last 40 years. Even with no symptoms, your child should get medical attention right away. If you think your child might have a brown recluse or black widow spider bite: Go to the emergency room. You can kill it first just be sure not to squish it so much that no one can tell what type it is. It should be noted that spider bites do happen, but are rare. Ouch What insect just bit me Here are some clues. Try to catch the spider that bit your child, so that it can be identified. There is not any particular species to be on the look-out for in your area. These small injuries generally heal within a couple of days. Spider venom rarely has any medical significance beyond the small area of injury at the site of the bite, thanks to our immune systems. Whether they have venom or not, most creatures will try to defend themselves if they feel trapped. Have put another dressing on it today as it’s really sore round the broken skin, there is a small black dot in the middle which I think is a spot of blood.Most predacious arthropods (including spiders) use venom to subdue their prey. It’s very sore, there was a small bit of what looked like green pus on the dressing where the hole is on my leg and this is what my leg looks like it bled a bit after I took the dressing off too. This morning it’s still really sore and has bled a bit onto the dressing so I took it off to see what it’s like. I put a dry dressing over it and went off to bed. ![]() In fact, I completely forgot about it until later in the evening when, once again, I went to itch the same area and found it was sore still - checked my leg and found a red area with an open centre plus what looked like the skin from a blister that had burst (first picture - excuse the clean tea towel, I put it there as I couldn’t get a photo without it looking like my bum because it’s where my thigh curves round to sit against the other one). Got home and changed clothes into something comfortable, not remembering about the sore area (god knows why, I’m not usually so absentminded!!) so didn’t bother looking at it. ![]() Driving somewhere yesterday morning I itched the top of my thigh through my jeans and it was really sore but, what with concentrating on the road through the rain, running late due to roadworks, worrying about the scan I was going to have etc, I forgot all about it.
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