Woman hospitalized after a brown recluse spider bite..

I will try to photoshop some wings for her :)

Thank you,Your my fav fairy.

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Never been bitten. They avoid me because I bite them first.

Actually, MSM (methylsufonylmethane available at health food stores) will supposedly neutralize the poison. Don't know 100% if it's true but I'll sure be slammming it down if I ever get bit.

Caution: MSM is less effective against gator bites. For instance, your hand will not grow back.

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I have never been bitten. i am really afraid of spiders but an indian shaman once told me, they just don't touch some people. I also hardly ever get bitten by mosquitoes.

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You are blessed that it healed, BB. There was a case here in Oregon some years back where a guy had a brown recluse spider bite (on his arm, I think it was), and the hole just kept getting larger and larger. They did a story on it -- with pictures -- about a year or so after the initial bite. Gruesome. :(

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The one here in Oregon was in the Grants Pass area, I believe. They figure it had come in on a load of lumber.

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I do that too, Hillcrest. People think I'm nuts ... but I don't care. Daddy long legs are beneficial!

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I got some big frikin spiders in my basement.. dont think any of them are these brown bastards...

+1 :)

A Brown Recluse has a mind of it's own,It will protect it's area,And is big enough to run across the grass,
It got me on the wrist 7 mo. ago and left me with a hole
Jesus is God and made everything including spiders
He is no longer a God of mine ,,The flesh will turn all kinds of colors and rot here is no cure,And as there is no pain the spider gets away scott free,Only an itch the next day and the wound will last over 6 months ,there is no antidote
what do you think of Your Jesus now??

You are more likely to encounter black widows...

Brown Recluses like humid/ wet climates.

Got bit on the stomach years ago by one of those little bastards, it healed though no black rotted skin. I do have a little scar there now.

I went in the garage this morning to get something, and saw a spider. For some reason I immediatly thought of a brown recluse, and I went back in the house. It had already crawled by and went under a work bench, so it is still out there.

I have never seen a daddy longlegs here, but they are welcome anytime.

Not true! They are throughout the US. They are in Colorado. Please get your facts straight before throwing them up for others to see and believe.

I must be very lucky. I was bitten by a brown recluse once and all it did was make a huge clear blister. It turns out I'm immune to their poison. Email me if you'd like to have immune offspring with me.

Here is a website that is pretty informative. It has info on many different spiders, and also a map that shows where in the USA a person would be likely to have a run in with a brown recluse.


[link to spiders.ucr.edu]

Charcoal poltice works every time, the neighbors come to me when they are bitten. Charcoal mixed with a glass of water will ward off food poisoning.

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I heard from produce shipped to U.S. from Mexico, Central America and South America. Local county health Dept. told me that but they also told me that we don't have them in Northern California when we do. They said that they can't survive our cold winters.

I got bit by one in my basement. Thought it was just a harmless spider bite. Two days later I left for a trip to see my son graduate from ERAU in Arizona. The bite was just a small red thing on my finger at that point but hurting a bit.

Half way there the bite turned into this horrible gross thing that kept growing and you could see fluids swirling around in it. Still kept driving so as not to miss graduation. By the time I got to Prescott I was in immense pain and went to hospital there.

They told me it was a brown recluse bite (and even called in a brown recluse expert) and did emergency surgery. My arm had red streaks going up it almost to shoulder. If it had reached my heart I wouldn't be here typing this!

The Arizona docs also told me that I was really lucky that I was coming to Arizona after this happened. They said California doctors have no clue. They said to report it to my local health Dept. when I got home but that they'd tell me it wasn't brown recluse. Well that's exactly what the health dept. said.

I then called an expert at UC Davis and she told me that we don't have them In Northern California.

So if you get bit by one in Northern Calif. get your ass to Arizona! There are up here and survive just fine through winter indoors and in other protected areas.

I got bit a few years ago. over 6 times, mostly on my arm. I woke up around 6am and noticed it itched, went back to bed. Later I felt weird, my arm was turning bright red, went to the ER. Tons of anti-biotics, steroids, morphine, etc later and I was fine. Got it right away.

They drew a pen line around the spreading redness, some infection under the skin. It went 1 inch past the line in 20 minutes. That's when I had all the doctors come in and look, made me feel special. Morphine helped.

Now there is just one small patch of skin that's still bright red with all the veins visible in it.

If you get bit by one of these f**kers goto the ER ASAP!

My infection, if it had gone on a few more hours would have spread to my heart. And then I'd be dead and that would suck.

My arm still hurts from a Black Widow bite.

From around 4 or 5 years ago.

I got bit by one of these in that old house I used to have...the haunted 1 in Spencer Co...
I think it crawled out of the closet at the foot of my bed, bit me while I was sleeping, on the forearm.
I didn't realize what had bit me, until it was probably too late to go see a DR...
It made me very, very sick, for months!
Had a huge place that started out a red spot, then the center of it got all greenish looking..got much bigger over time...
Ran a fever for weeks..
I got lucky though...I didn't lose any flesh..not even really left with much of a scar from it.
After seeing the pics...I can see why all my neighbors were freakin' out , tellin' me I better get my ass to the DR..
Looks like I got very, very lucky.!!

I am fond of all comments. They are extra large so if you see one you'll know. There's no mistaking a hairy thick brown recluse streaking across some old linoleum flooring.