brown recluse spider bite

[Treeinnovator]

this moron really thinks his red-meat diet, cancer, etc. caused this infection. somebody tell him it's a brown recluse spider bite. alot of us know this from experience in our business. heck, one of those little buggers got me last year.

here's his video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-pjqSxVjx0

 

[BC_Logger]

I have never seen anything like that

 

[slabmaster]

A buddy of mine got bit by one and almost lost his leg.The doctor was real close to taking it off. It turned black before he went in.Those spiders are nothing to fool around with.

 

[Treeinnovator]

yeah those spiders are nasty. i found that sending my workers into the moist, dark, overgrown landscape areas seems to help limit my chances of ever getting bit again.

 

[secureland]

yeah those spiders are nasty. i found that sending my workers into the moist, dark, overgrown landscape areas seems to help limit my chances of ever getting bit again.

You sound like an honorable General Patton, leading his men into harm's way.

 

[Bermie]

My hubby got bitten on the side of his hand one morning, small red 1/4" spot.
By that evening he had chills and sweats, the spot was a 3" bullseye, hot and swollen and getting worse by the hour.
The bullseye is a classic sign its a BR bite - rings of different colours

We Googled to find out how to treat it and we found an article by a doctor who uses nitroglycerine patches, the ones people use for angina.
The poison in a brown recluse bite is a vasoconstrictor, that is it collapses the capillaries and veins so the flesh dies. The infections are secondary to the initial problem. Nitroglycerine is a vasodilator, it opens the blood vessels allowing the body to flush the toxin out.

We took the article with us to our doctor the next day, he read it and immediately wrote a prescription for the NG patches.
You have to cut the patch to the size of the bite, and only leave it on during the day, take it off at night.
Once we started the treatment the bite stopped increasing in size and gradually subsided over the next three days.

This treatement WORKS folks and I'm not kidding. BR bites are VERY dangerous.

Hope this helps someone sometime...

 

[Treeinnovator]

My hubby got bitten on the side of his hand one morning, small red 1/4" spot.
By that evening he had chills and sweats, the spot was a 3" bullseye, hot and swollen and getting worse by the hour.
The bullseye is a classic sign its a BR bite - rings of different colours

We Googled to find out how to treat it and we found an article by a doctor who uses nitroglycerine patches, the ones people use for angina.
The poison in a brown recluse bite is a vasoconstrictor, that is it collapses the capillaries and veins so the flesh dies. The infections are secondary to the initial problem. Nitroglycerine is a vasodilator, it opens the blood vessels allowing the body to flush the toxin out.

We took the article with us to our doctor the next day, he read it and immediately wrote a prescription for the NG patches.
You have to cut the patch to the size of the bite, and only leave it on during the day, take it off at night.
Once we started the treatment the bite stopped increasing in size and gradually subsided over the next three days.

This treatement WORKS folks and I'm not kidding. BR bites are VERY dangerous.

Hope this helps someone sometime...

Bermie,
did your treatment prevent the necrosis and large hole from forming ?
i had a quarter size hole in me after the dead tissue came out. a year later it's a scar the size of a nickel.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

We've got a few of those spiders near Portland.

One of a couple that can be a pain.

I've never feared them. And have only heard of a couple of flesh wound problems - both dogs.

And gnarly flesh wounds too, almost decay-like needing tissue removal.

 

[juststumps]

nephew , got bit buy one a few years back ... putting his shoes on ... they took a nice sized chunk out of the bottom of his foot ...was a pretty nasty experiance ...

 

[Urbicide]

My hubby got bitten on the side of his hand one morning, small red 1/4" spot.
By that evening he had chills and sweats, the spot was a 3" bullseye, hot and swollen and getting worse by the hour.
The bullseye is a classic sign its a BR bite - rings of different colours

We Googled to find out how to treat it and we found an article by a doctor who uses nitroglycerine patches, the ones people use for angina.
The poison in a brown recluse bite is a vasoconstrictor, that is it collapses the capillaries and veins so the flesh dies. The infections are secondary to the initial problem. Nitroglycerine is a vasodilator, it opens the blood vessels allowing the body to flush the toxin out.

We took the article with us to our doctor the next day, he read it and immediately wrote a prescription for the NG patches.
You have to cut the patch to the size of the bite, and only leave it on during the day, take it off at night.
Once we started the treatment the bite stopped increasing in size and gradually subsided over the next three days.

This treatement WORKS folks and I'm not kidding. BR bites are VERY dangerous.

Hope this helps someone sometime...

Good information. I wonder if leaches might have a similar effect?

 

[Brimmstone]

One of the customers where I work walked in about two weeks ago with a brown recluse bite on his arm. He said he thought it was just a bee-sting. I only knew what it was because a co-worker was bitten years ago and got to watch it develop because none of us knew what it was. An old timer at the site we were at saw it and called an ambulance and made our boss send him to the hospital. Good thing the guy did it as my co-worker almost lost his arm. As to the customer at work I got the boss to pull up some pics of BR bites on Google and was able to get the customer to go to the hospital. I try to be very careful in everything I do especially putting on clothes and boots. I shake out my clothes and knock out my boots before I put them on as a precaution.

 

[Bermie]

Bermie,
did your treatment prevent the necrosis and large hole from forming ?
i had a quarter size hole in me after the dead tissue came out. a year later it's a scar the size of a nickel.

YES!
The key is to get the nitro patches on ASAP before the toxin has had too much time to act.
Dead flesh was bad enough but did NOT get to the black, nasty, stinking, pustulent nightmare that we have seen on other people. We got to it in time...no scar.

 

[wolfpawtimber]

My grandfather got bit a long time ago on the leg and had to get a baseball size chunk taken out. Pretty nasty.

 

[pdqdl]

I have them all over my shop

So far, no bites, 25 years now. They are not called reclusive for no reason.

So many people don't know what they look like, and don't ever spend the time researching how to identify them. The best clue is NOT the "fiddle back" pattern, it is only having 6 eyes. TINY little eyes, you need a magnifying lens to see if you got it right.

A decent description from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider

Better ID with detailed pics from similar spiders:http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol5num2/special/recluse.html

 

[Taxmantoo]

A buddy of mine got bit by one and almost lost his leg.

Guy wasn't named Randy, was he?

 

[RedlineIt]

From the gaping fecund maw that is the mouth of the Treeminator:

i found that sending my workers into the moist, dark, overgrown landscape areas seems to help limit my chances of ever getting bit again.

With all due respect to Bermie, pdqdl, Brimmstone and others who offered actual information about the brown recluse, this:

i found that sending my workers into the moist, dark, overgrown landscape areas seems to help limit my chances of ever getting bit again.

is the treeminator we have come to know and despise.

Don't feed the trolls.


RedlineIt

 

[slabmaster]

Guy wasn't named Randy, was he?

No,But he got gangerine from the bite and needed a graft from his butt to close the hole.

 

[046]

thanks for sharing this great info!

YES!
The key is to get the nitro patches on ASAP before the toxin has had too much time to act.
Dead flesh was bad enough but did NOT get to the black, nasty, stinking, pustulent nightmare that we have seen on other people. We got to it in time...no scar.

 

[pdqdl]

From the gaping fecund maw that is the mouth of the Treeminator:
Quote:
i found that sending my workers into the moist, dark, overgrown landscape areas seems to help limit my chances of ever getting bit again.

...is the treeminator we have come to know and despise.

Don't feed the trolls.


RedlineIt

The original statement was obviously from someone who knows next to nothing about Brown recluse spiders: they don't really hang out in moist, dark, overgrown landscapes.

I tend to ignore statments like that anyway. There are too many people on the internet that get their jollies from making absurd and outrageous statements. I get mine from from making sensible and informative statements.