[donozark]

I used a potato poultice once on a Brown Recluse bite. Used Saran Wrap to hold it tight against wound. Helped to draw out toxin. Next morning I removed it. Smelled like a rotten gunshot wound. Cleaned it-soap/water. Then peroxide./alcohol.

Missouri has more Brown Recluse than any other State. I avoid attics, crawl spaces in warm weather. These are nasty critters. Can leave baseball size holes in one's body...

[simplesimon]

I hear ya on the Missouri and those nasty spiders..... I travelled to MO several times for dog shows. In Oct of 06, when my son was 4 months old, a couple of friends and I were at a hotel. The two ladies < both live in MO > went across the street to get us some food. While they were gone, I had gotten in my son's diaper bag to get him out a bottle to fill up. And I'll be darned if there wasnt a spider in the bottom of his bag. So I set the bag outside the hotel's door , in the hall way when the ladies were coming back with the food. One asked WTH are you doing ? to which I replied that there was a spider in the diaper bag. She laughed because she knows how I detest spiders of any kind, color,size and shape. But she saw it and said " oh that's a badboy"... it was a Brown recluse. So she grabbed a huge wad of paper towels and squished it for me. She said she's used to killing them. Good Gawd, I'm still shuddering. EWWW

[TigersEye]

That is an interesting treatment. Did that take care of it? I have seen pics of the huge holes left after doctors excise large chunks of flesh trying stop the spread of it.