A Brown Recluse Spider bite as dark pin dot core in the center of the bite. The dark pin dot will be sunken in with the area around the bite having small teeny blisters and it will be raised. The bite will grow in size rather quickly (within hours with most people) - Chances are that the body area where you were bit will feel slightly achey and the body part may have slight shooting pains near the bite. Some people will run a slight fever.
If suspect that you have a Brown Recluse Spider bite, keep a close eye on it... if it is growing in size fast and if you are feeling sick or if you run a high temperture. Go to a doctor or ER room right away. Most people do not get very sick from Brown Recluse Spider bites, but you must keep an eye on the bite and watch if it is growing in size (width as well in depth). The skin and tissue will die around the bite and how much of the skin and tissue dies varies per person and how much BRS venom was injected into the person skin.
When I was bitten the last time by a BRS (when I started this thread). I thought it was just a mosquito bite or that I had a splinter in my arm due to the dark pin dot center - but the center of the bite became very dark and expanded within hours and my whole arm ached and I had slight shooting pains up my arm and the arm area around the bite was very warm to the touch. I also ran a small fever. The dark center of the bite grew to about the size of a dime before it stopped expanding (within days), but the tissue died deep in my arm (how deep it was and how it was getting deeper is what concerned me most at the time). I now have a very noticable deep scar on my arm that which is about 3/8" in diameter. It sorta looks like time old "pox" shot scar but on my forearm. It took about 3 months for it fully heal up. My bite was a minor bite, but it is so important to keep an eye on any BRS bite and how large the dead tissue expands out and inward once you are bitten by a BRS.
I have seen plenty of BRS bites online on websites where the BRS bite has caused dead tissue to expanded to a very large area around the bite over a period of months after the person was bitten. The problem is most people do not know how their bodies will react to a BRS bite until they are bitten by a BRS.
Google Images of Brown Recluse Spider Bites and you will see how they look at first and how bad they have gotten with some people who have been bitten by BRS.
Here is picture of one at the beginning
http://www.remotemedics.co.uk/l278.jpg (normally they do not get much worse than this first picture - this was taken at 3 days after the bite)
But in some case they can get grow pretty ugly as you will see here... (warning it is not pretty)
http://www.remotemedics.co.uk/p011.htm
REMEMBER ITCHY BITE WITH A DARK CENTER, MEANS IT COULD BE A BROWN RECLUSE BITE... If it grows fairly fast in size or if you sick, get to the doctor or an ER.
