I got bit on the heel about 40 years ago. Lots of necrotic tissue the diameter of a silver dollar was removed by the doc. A new gel pad treatment for burn victims had just come out and I applied that to the heel twice a day for six months. On crutches the whole time. For decades the heel continued to generate a thick callous as a reaction, and I had to reduce it regularly with a pumice stone. Still need to do that, from time to time.
Had an friend who got bit on the arm. He was diabetic and it could not heal. Worked its way into the bone marrow and he was a goner.
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Yep. Outter thigh, right leg. Still have a dimple from being bitten when I was a kid. Remember my mother panicking and rushing me to the Doc. I don't recall the adverse effects, thankfully.
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A good friend of mine from NM lost almost all of his left ear from a brown recluse bite. Dr's also had to go in and clean out some of his ear and nasal passages as the rot was spreading there. Nasty stuff.
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Son was. Since I knew a couple people who’d been through the long, messy process I did some searching and found an article about treating the wound with a nitroglycerine patch to increase bloodflow and prevent necrosis. Showed the doctor, who said it couldn’t hurt and prescribed the patches. Put them over the blister and in no time it healed up with no scar or hole. Patches cost about $2 IIRC, but do need a script.
Woke up one morning trying to figure out how I broke my thumb while sleeping. Told wife I was going to have to go to the doctor to get it looked at as I couldn’t move it and it was swelled up. Legitimately thought it was broken. Took a shower and was looking at pain area and see 2 fang marks right on the pointiest part of my thumb knuckle. Crap. Spider bite. Tell her I need to get to doctor and she starts getting ready. In that 10 minutes the red lines started running up my arm from the bite site.
We get to hospital about 40 minutes later and red lines are halfway up my forearm.
Doc comes in a few minutes later. Reading paperwork, sees my arm, “oh [bleep]” he says. Grabs a sharpie and marks the red marks now halfway up my upper arm. Brings some nurses in and they administer a couple different IVs. Within minutes of them starting I could see the red lines start receding.
He gives me 4 different prescriptions for a 2 week period. Took like 14 pills a day.
After about 5 days, went to dads, forgot pills at his house. The next day I’m at work and look at my arm and it’s got red lines starting up from my thumb. Called dad and he drives the 100 miles with my pills. Finished them out and was good as new.
The doctor said they treat brown recluse and black widows and whatever else we have locally with basically the same treatment. Said what saved my “flesh” was likely the bite site had zero muscle under it, was just the skin right on top of the knuckle, so nothing for the poison to really work on.
Kinda scary watching red lines creeping up your arm and then watching them receed back down after a few IVs.
Yup. Last week of high school in Georgia. Out in the boonies doing stuff, got a little scuffed up and the bastid got lucky and bit me in an open cut...right into the bloodstream. Long story short, swoll up, turned purple all over, full blown anaphylaxis, into the ER where they shot me full of something...I suspect epinephrine....and I passed out. delerium, fever, chills, etc. and woke up four days later. Necrosis went barely into the shin bone and I still have a divot on the spot.
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Woke up one morning trying to figure out how I broke my thumb while sleeping. Told wife I was going to have to go to the doctor to get it looked at as I couldn’t move it and it was swelled up. Legitimately thought it was broken. Took a shower and was looking at pain area and see 2 fang marks right on the pointiest part of my thumb knuckle. Crap. Spider bite. Tell her I need to get to doctor and she starts getting ready. In that 10 minutes the red lines started running up my arm from the bite site.
We get to hospital about 40 minutes later and red lines are halfway up my forearm.
Doc comes in a few minutes later. Reading paperwork, sees my arm, “oh [bleep]” he says. Grabs a sharpie and marks the red marks now halfway up my upper arm. Brings some nurses in and they administer a couple different IVs. Within minutes of them starting I could see the red lines start receding.
He gives me 4 different prescriptions for a 2 week period. Took like 14 pills a day.
After about 5 days, went to dads, forgot pills at his house. The next day I’m at work and look at my arm and it’s got red lines starting up from my thumb. Called dad and he drives the 100 miles with my pills. Finished them out and was good as new.
The doctor said they treat brown recluse and black widows and whatever else we have locally with basically the same treatment. Said what saved my “flesh” was likely the bite site had zero muscle under it, was just the skin right on top of the knuckle, so nothing for the poison to really work on.
Kinda scary watching red lines creeping up your arm and then watching them receed back down after a few IVs.
What medication was it?
It’s been 10 years and I don’t recall. 1 was an antibiotic. 1 was a steroid I think??? Don’t remember the other 2.
Not that I’m aware of and I’ve dealt with plenty of them as well as Black Widows. A paramedic buddy of mine that I worked with went to Arizona for a conference and when he woke up one morning his throat and tongue felt swollen. He recognized that he might be having an anaphylactic reaction but he didn’t know to what so he went to the ER. They determined he’d been bitten on his tongue by a black widow. They didn’t give him anti venom because they thought he was tolerating the toxin and through the worst of it. I think he got some epi and maybe Benadryl. They told him that is was more common than people realize but when he was sleeping and snoring a spider crawled into his open mouth and bit him.
That information was enough to make me never sleep again…that was about 30 years ago and I haven’t slept a wink since. 😉
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No kidding. My own personal Hell would be locked for eternity in a room full of bugs.
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I talked to a guy at dialysis that said the spyder bite shut his kidneys down. I don't know the details, except he was asleep.
I’m sure that a secondary infection as a result of the bite could affect renal function. I did home dialysis for a younger guy that had a tooth infection that wiped out his kidney function. By and large unchecked diabetes and uncontrolled hypertension seemed to be the biggest cause of renal failure that I dealt with.
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