[ValerieUSA]

I had a few brown recluse bites and the wounds stay open and festering for months... had to keep pouring hydrogen peroxide into them to get them to heal. You don't want them to scab over because it seals the poison inside where it continues to eat at your flesh. They are way gross to look at and painful.

[Squantos]

Ouch !...........what was the recover time ?

Stay Safe !

[kms61]

I was bitten on the arm a number of years ago, and while my experience wasn't as bad as some people's, the bite area wouldn't heal. I went to a dermatologist and he just excised the whole area. No more spider bite.

Then I popped the stitches lifting weights, so now I have a scar on my bicep that's about two inches long and a half inch wide.

[stlnative]

You are so right! - You have to keep removing the scab and keep cleaning it out.

I am almost at the start of 4th week with my second BRS that I have had in my life time. Mine is small but is painful and nasty, and has stopped getting larger. The first one I had took 6 months to heal (would start healing and then get festered again). Also people who have been bitten by a BRS can and probably will get new sores popping up during their life time as the poison stays in the body and will come out through a new area or the old bite area on your body that will also erupt from the inside out and take a long time to heal. To be truthful my new bite area may or may not be from a new bite. It is too hard to tell as most of the time you never see or feel it when you are bitten. It looks like a mosquito bite at first until it gets a dark brown or black center in it and grows a red ring of tiny protruding blisters. How big it gets and how far it spreads depends on the person's reaction and the amount of poison the spider left in you.

As far as killing them... I bomb my house with foggers (buy them at Wal-Mart or another Discount Store) It does kill them (read the label), but you have to bomb your house at the beginning of every one of the 4 seasons.