Posted on 10/11/2009 9:28:50 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
I like watermelon and fried chicken.
I was staying at a friend’s house. Dear God I don’t think they’d have bed bugs. Now I’m freaking out, thinking they jumped in my suitcase and came home with me.
Don’t mess around with this bite. My nephew was bit 3 times on his shin just below his knee by some kind of spider - we’re not sure what type. He said it was like a bee sting - it felt like it was burning. He treated it with alcohol and neosporin and didn’t go to the doctor for 3 full days. On the third day the venom started moving up his leg towards his groin area. He was in terrible pain. The ER doc got him on a gurney immediately and they started treating him with IV antibiotics and something to counteract the venom. The doctor said in another day he might have been close to death. My nephew told the doctor he was unemployed and had no insurance. Mike has a hole in his leg the size of a quarter and it was deep, very deep you could see muscle and what looked like bone. The flesh is slowly growing back.
Go to a doctor.
Some doctors believe that Brown Recluse venom can affect you for very long periods of time. My experience bears this out.
A good friend of ours was just treated for Lyme’s disease.
It was pretty nasty. Had her in the hospital a couple different times over a month. It was originally misdiagnosed as meningitis.
This is usually contracted after being bitten by a deer tick.
These are common in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Judging by your homepage I’m assuming you were bitten in Tennesee. But I would guess they have ticks there also.
The herbal treatments also have no potential for overstimulating the heart. I wouldn't put a nitro patch on without the supervision of a physician. Probably not even then since I'm a lifelong smoker.
Doggone you’ve been bit up a lot. Your blood must be a potent antivenin at this point.
A proper herbal poultice will reduce the pain almost immediately and completely heal the flesh leaving no scar much less a big hole.
What is the herbal remedy?
Thanks
Interesting. I looked it up and there are some fascinating sites.
I need to investigate and put in my med kits.
Thanks for the info.
FWIW, the doctor, for my Mom’s husband, really didn’t do much but flush, cut and give antibiotics.
They add activated charcoal to what I had already known. Other purveyors may have different formulas but they probably all use plantain leaf. This site doesn't mention that plantain has enzymes that break down the venom.
The arctic weather, that has come early this year, puts a real crimp in the style of insects and spiders. Sub-freezing temperatures are the great cleanser.
That is the first one I went to earlier. I am going to investigate.
It ain’t big critters that bother me. It is the little one, who in my opinion, is more dangerous.
I hike alone and friends always ask “What about a mountain lion?”
To which I reply “Well we are going to have one hell of a fight on our hands but in general I am viewed as a predator, not a meal. I am aware of the danger”
I then go on to explain that the little damn bugs worry me more. Having had tick fever 20 years I always use bug spray and tons of it. Deet is my favorite.
I might use some tobacco in a poultice. It is slightly anti-biotic and a drawing agent. Cayenne is a drawing agent and brings blood to the area which is what has the real power houses of healing and internal cleaning.
If I had a lot of gangrenous tissues I might use Baptisia tinctoria root. (Wild Indigo) Dried ground root in the poultice and tinctured root internally. That is the only herb with potential toxicity and would be the hardest to find. In central Texas you might have a field full of it. Some herb outfit would have it though.
A fellow that shops at our store regularly recently got bit and he lost about a 6 inch circle of flesh on the back of his leg clear down into the muscle and he was treated within a couple of days of the bite.
The Doc said if he waited much longer it may have went down to the bone.
I was thinking just dump sugar on it, if I am home.
Apparently the Romans used sugar for wounds and septis and it actually a very good remedy.
It doesn’t appear to be any more complicated than putting a bunch of C&H on it.
I remembered my Aunt doing that to my cousin we were kids, for some open wound he had on his leg. Got it while climbing down a tree and ripped his leg open a branch that was a sharp stub.
I only remembered it after seeing a movie called Shooter, with Mark Wahlberg.
“I wouldn’t put a nitro patch on without the supervision of a physician.”
Probably good advice, but I cut the patch down to the size of the bite area. In my case about 3/8” diameter. Had no adverse effects, but am aware that nitro patches are potentially dangerous.
This happened over a holiday weekend, and by the time I saw the doctor, it had already started to heal. It did turn dark sooner than he would have expected.
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