Brown Recluse Spider Bites - Now is the time to spray your house! (graphic pictures)

myself ^ | 5/9/03 | brigette

[stlnative]

This is a semi-vanity post - but others should learn about this nasty little spider and the damage it can do.

This is my 3rd day into my second Brown Recluse Spider bite that I have had in the past 3 years. The first one took over 6 months to heal and left a 3/4" diameter crater in the back of my neck at my hairline. I was bitten again 3 days ago, at least that is when I notice a pin head size bump on my right forearm and thought it was just a mosquito bite. Today is day three and I decided to keep a record of this new bite this time if it decides to get worse or hang around for 6 months like the other one. It was pin head size 3 days ago. I found a website after my first bite that keeps records and case pictures of brown recluse spider bites (warning if you think snake bites are nasty or anthrax sores are gross - well Brown Spider Bites are just as bad - they get uglier as time goes by!). I did not record my first bite as I figured it would just heal. But it got worse and worse as the weeks went by.

Anyway people in the midwest should learn about these nasty little spiders, even more if you have kids... you should bug bomb your house often and keep clutter away from and inside your homes. Right now the little nasty things are moving back indoors due to all the rainy weather we have had in the midwest.

Today is 5/9/03 and I am into my 3 day of being bitten by BRS (Brown Recluse Spider). My picture below looks like it is not much of anything and I am hoping that it stays as little as it now. But I am prepared to record it this time if it does get worse. Hopefully my picture of my 3 day old bite will help others recognize when they have also been bitten by a BRS, everyone is affected differently depending on the size of the spider and how your body handle the poison. Since this is my second bite it may not get any worse.



I have started a bite history on a website that has records of over 400 BRS bites (tons of photos there that would make your jaw drop if you have never seen what a BRS can do to you once it bites you) My case number is #995 (maybe they have 995 recorded cases now) the website url is http://www.highway60.com/mark/brs/default.htm

My little bite is how all of it starts for some people, that little bite can turn into this...
Graphic Picture of Hand after a BRS bite and the link to this persons BRS bite story

I don't think I need to say more here - just visit the BRS Bite site and use the search link at the top... Put in the information you want (if you just want to see the stories with pictures check off just the "Yes" next to the Picture option and hit the search button at the bottom.

Do yourself a favor and your kids a favor... spray or bomb your house at least once each season (spring, summer, fall, winter). You can buy house bombs at any local discount store in packs of 3 for about $6.00.

I posted this so that people mainly in the midwest can learn about these nasty little spiders, I didn't do it to draw attention to my own bite... I just know now how nasty they can get and how you can lessen your chances of being bit. I got bit before I had a chance to bomb my house... it has been rainy here and I should have known they would start coming in through the cracks between the window screens and window frame. All in all I should be fine, but some people do not fair as well.

[auggy]

You might try ,"Sticky Boards". We have used them and caught alot of Recluse's.

[kcvl]

Maybe you should send you photos to this doctor...

Check out these photos...

http://www.sabramsmd.com/brs/brs_testimonial_finger.html

[kcvl]

Brown Recluse Spider Nest

[gore_sux_2000]

ish! I wondered what a brown recluse looked like, don't think we get them here in MN, but I did see a rather scary looking spider in my apt. a few weeks ago. The cat came running out of the bedroom chasing something, it was the biggest scariest looking thing I have ever seen. About the size of a quarter, dark brown, thick hairy legs but no markings on the back. Had to grab my hubby's boot to squish the sucker as he had already gone to bed. Yuck....getting creeped out all over again!

[liberalnot]

i had maybe a half dozen bites, near each other, that looked like the original post above or #71. as i said, it grossed out the pharmacists.

but they were not as bad as the pictures of the legs following. ick!

i think i either was getting bitten while hiking thru' grass, or while sleeping in bed. i always sleep with my bedroom window open at nights here in socal.

[Myrddin]

We have a similar spider problem in Idaho. It is the hobo spider that causes necrotic wounds here.

[kcvl]

Thanks for starting this thread. I think I found out more about Brown Recluse Spiders than I ever wanted to know. lol! Now how will I get the sleep tonight???!!!

[kcvl]

OMG!

[Myrddin]

The department stores in Pocatello carry hobo spider traps. They are sticky boards in a triangular cardboard tent to prevent accidentally touching the sticky stuff.

[Calvin Locke]

Some insecticides are processed through the liver.

I recall a WSJ article about a guy that was on an ulcer med (Tagamet?), and sprayed his yard with diazinon. Then, through other yard
work, he came in to prolonged contact with the now-treated yard waste. The Tagamet was also processed
through the liver, and blocked the elimination of the diazinon in his system.

Can't remember the exact details, but he suffered some long term damage.

[kcvl]

Have you seen Bridget's photos?

http://www.highway60.com/mark/brs/linda_bite.htm


Talk about painful to look at!!!

[Chameleon]

FWIW, the major irritation of my bite was an itching sensation. The itching seems to have gone away now. The swelled area also seems to have shrunken back such that the swollen area is no longer raised as high relative to the rest of the skin.

[kcvl]

Check this out...(beware - if photos of deep wounds make you sick don't look at the very bottom of this website).


http://inrnet.com/spiderx/


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[stlnative]

What does the center look like? Can you take a picture of it? ( I had to lay my arm down on the scanner bed, that is why my pictures did not turm out great, but I will do it tomorrow as the center of my bite has has gotten a little larger. )

[kcvl]

You have been bitten again???!!!

[Slyfox]

About 3 1/2 years ago I was bitten repeatedly on the head by one of these critters. There were between 11 and 13 bites...I've also been bitten by a black widow spider...

Man, you must be real tasty.

[Myrddin]

Ouch. I could live just fine without a bite like that.

[kcvl]

I know what you mean. The more I search the web the weaker I am getting. lol! I can guarantee you that I will check MY BED BEFORE I get in it tonight.

http://www.pestproducts.com/spiderproducts.htm

[Stopislamnow]

We had really bad spider problems at our hanger at Ft Hood. Think I was bitten by every kind of spider that resides in Central Texas. Most were black widow bites, after the first five or six of em, I basically shrugged em off.

The one time a BR got me I went right in to get it fixed, just minutes after. Glad I did, those are some ugly pictures.

[Slyfox]

I get bite by fleas, fire ants, mosquitoes and just about everything else besides spiders. My little brother got bite by a spider one time and my mother wrapped the bite with plastic wrap. I never did figure out why she did that.