Posted on 02/21/2023 3:38:34 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
An Australian nurse was holidaying in Bali with her family last week when a red mark she initially thought was sunburn turned out to be something a lot worse.
She didn’t think much of it at first but about four days later when she was staying in Kuta and getting ready to fly home, little blisters started to appear.
Ms. Moody said she thought perhaps she had “Bali belly” but was feeling “very sick” so the hotel clinic ended up calling a doctor, who said she had come into contact with a venomous insect called the tomcat beetle.
She was given IV antibiotics and creams to treat the area.
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Prayers for the nurse.
A friend got a spider bite and infection while at Disney World with his family, that ultimately resulted in a week in the hospital, and a baseball-sized gouge in his thigh
That was a brown recluse. Nasty spiders. It doesn’t hurt when they first bite you.
“Bali belly”
LOL. I didn’t know Montezuma sailed that far west.
Looks like an earwig.
Everything in Australia wants to eat you or kill you.
Well that was surprising. I was expecting something like herpes or maybe ghanarea I can’t spell.
If the brown recluse bit your friend on a less meaty part of the body, like a bony hand or arm, the hole could have been really bad.
Just take a little bit of Ivermectin.
That stuff is good for stuff like the Bali Butt-Fly and similar.
DE plane, de plane!
Let’s get out of here!
The eels came out of Checkov’s ears, what does that say about him. Just kidding.😀😀
Looks sort of like a colorful scorpion
I wouldn’t think that a beetle - such a vestigial pair of wing covers. Looks more like a gaudy earwig.
I've used it several times and had friends who used it successfully. There was a doctor in Ft. Worth who used it for more than 15 years.
It is nitro. You can use a piece of nitro pill or cut a piece from a nitro patch. If you use the pill, lay a piece of the pill over the bite, drop a single drop of water over it, they dissolve quickly and then place small band aide over it. You may have to do it twice or 3 times.
It opens the blood vessels that the spider venom constrict. Then your body will deal with the venom.
Lots of people keep nitro. It is not over the counter.
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