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To: Tennessee Conservative

If you apply, or have doc apply or prescribe, a shaped piece of a nitroglycerin patch around a recluse bite relatively soon after it occurs it reduces it to just itchy bite. Earlier is better, but works even after it starts getting ugly.

The mechanism that causes the necrosis is a fraction of the venom that causes vasoconstriction and this isolates the area from blood flow which would just dilute and move the bulk out to the liver and other cleaning organs. Putting the patch on dilates the vessels and short circuits the envenomation.


1,100 posted on 12/27/2021 12:21:35 PM PST by Axenolith (WOOT! Another day without False Vacuum Decay!!!)
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To: Axenolith

My B.I.L. was like my husband, stubborn about doctors. He said it didn’t hurt when it bit him but started hurting and swelling later that evening. Since he never saw the spider he figured it would be better in the morning. It wasn’t. He waited too long and as soon as the doctor saw it he said Brown Recluse bite and asked him if he’d been digging around in a dark closet without gloves. He said “no, dark garage without gloves.”


1,110 posted on 12/27/2021 12:47:11 PM PST by Tennessee Conservative (My goal in life is to be the person my dogs think I am)
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To: Axenolith

Those ED medications are also vasodilators.


1,112 posted on 12/27/2021 12:49:29 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (This is NOT a pandemic of the unvaxx'd. It is a complete loss of common sense.)
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1,125 posted on 12/27/2021 1:06:38 PM PST by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: Axenolith

Good information. ThanQ.


1,195 posted on 12/27/2021 5:24:32 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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