If you see this lil guy! PLAESE dun touch it! WARNING GRAPHIC!!
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Probably one of the most common misdiagnosis...
See this thread for more Brown Recluse hysteria.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146050&highlight=brown+recluse
See this thread for more Brown Recluse hysteria.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146050&highlight=brown+recluse
we have brown recluse and black widows all over, me and my dad moved a fishing boat with about a thousand of these things on it. We flipped out when we realized they were there lol.
oh lord! brown recluse bites are extremely necrotic (rots your tissue) to human flesh. When i lived in Fort Knox, there was a guy who was mowing his lawn, a recluse dropped from a tree and bit his forearm. He lost ALOT of tissue-the hospital kept cutting dead tissue down to his bones (radius and ulna). it was absolutely horrid! i fear a bite from these guys any day over a black widow!
Brown recluse bites are NOT extremely necrotic. In fact, they are RARELY necrotic and most victims heal WITHOUT medical attention and never knew their bite was anything more than a mosquito bite.
Most MAJOR problems involving brown-recluse or other spider bites are INFECTION due to the victim scratching the ITCHY (read NOT painful and necrotic) wound. Please do not add to the internet hysteria.
http://lighthousepatriotjournal.wor...r-brown-recluse-spider-and-attributed-photos/
http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic547.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse#Venomous_bite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse#Misdiagnoses
http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html
http://www.brownreclusespider.biz/
http://www.brownreclusespider.biz/bites.htm
Short Facts
# No population of the spider in California & Florida has ever been reported.
# Up to 50% of all diagnosis of brown recluse spider bites are in geographic regions of the US where there aren't any brown recluse spiders
# Bites from other animals and are often misidentified as brown recluse bites.
# Most scientific literature about the brown recluse is about its venom.
Ok..does everyone feel a little safer now?
80% of "recluse bites" are actually misdiagnosis!
Most MAJOR problems involving brown-recluse or other spider bites are INFECTION due to the victim scratching the ITCHY (read NOT painful and necrotic) wound. Please do not add to the internet hysteria.
http://lighthousepatriotjournal.wor...r-brown-recluse-spider-and-attributed-photos/
http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic547.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse#Venomous_bite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse#Misdiagnoses
http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html
http://www.brownreclusespider.biz/
http://www.brownreclusespider.biz/bites.htm
Short Facts
# No population of the spider in California & Florida has ever been reported.
# Up to 50% of all diagnosis of brown recluse spider bites are in geographic regions of the US where there aren't any brown recluse spiders
# Bites from other animals and are often misidentified as brown recluse bites.
# Most scientific literature about the brown recluse is about its venom.
Ok..does everyone feel a little safer now?
80% of "recluse bites" are actually misdiagnosis!
thats nasty...i wonder if we have those here...black widows are already too much over here in my house lol
