re: anyone hear been bit by a brown recluse spider? NSFW - grossness

i will update the title to NSFW for grossness

I though this was a recluse bite, but my finger never went into necrosis. Was at the doc the day it happened and they put me on drugs just in case.

this person lives in Knoxville, TN

HM

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About 50% of BR bites are dry.

Of the 'wet' bites, only about 25% contain enough toxin to cause necrosis.

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So 12.5% risk of necrosis. I like those odds!

My back last night - It has been there for a week and this looks good.



This was after getting it lanced on Monday and having to make a two hour drive.



The gauze I pulled out last night that they stuffed inside it.



That gauze pad I changed 30 min ago. The ants seemed to love that shite.

My wife has more pics when it was really bad from last weekend. I will get her to send some.



This was my back Sat/Sun

Our pest guy told us he worked on the house down the street. Their basement had a quote "massive infestation".

I told him I had welding gun and some gasoline if we need to burn my house down.

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Won't there be a red streak leading away from the bite or is that a myth?

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Pretty common with a lot of infections, actually. I've had that happen twice with various infections on my limbs - that's when you know you need to get to a doctor stat and get on antibiotics.

From an emergency room visit, the guy in front of us had been bitten the day before, had flown out to SLC Utah and noticed his had was swelling. By seven that night his right had was four times its normal size and his wrist had swelled and gone half way up his forearm. He was healthy, in his late fifties. And the doctor told him major antibiotics were in his future.

My little one, little older than 2, was just bitten a couple weeks ago. Or that's what the doctor told us it was, we never saw the spider. Brown Recluse bites don't really hurt, so you may never notice the actual bite.

It developed a black dot the size of a pea in the center where the bite was and a red circle around it about the size of a half dollar about a day after.

Third day, skin in the red area started to peal and scab up and fall off. Fourth day, the black dot in the middle was about gone. Fifth day the black dot was completely gone but redness remained.

The days following the redness started to go away and his skin started growing back. Still hasn't fully healed. You can clearly see the original circle that's healing.

When we got to the doctor on day 2, it wasn't infected. All we got was Antibacterial ointment prescribed to keep it from getting infected. We were very fortunate.

If it had gotten infected, we either were going to have to give him IV antibiotics or have it removed, thankfully that didn't happen. We were nervous.

ETA pic - day 1, 2, 3


Good luck!

Curious how you know you were bitten by a recluse? I ask because a large majority of "brown recluse" bites are really just staph infection