Brown Recluse Bite

[Corporate Thug]

time to chop that finger off

 

[Excelsior]

WTF is this! Jesus I am getting out of the South ASAP.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Excelsior
WTF is this! Jesus I am getting out of the South ASAP.

Apparently, it's a type of whipscorpion.

Cool.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: Excelsior
WTF is this! Jesus I am getting out of the South ASAP.

Its a Vinegaroon for chrissakes. Harmless, largely, but ugly.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Jmman
Well, looking at some other pictures, I guess that is possible. Oh well, you poor bastages in the South and Midwest better be careful. I live in Colorado , and we don't have Brown Recluse spiders here anyway. We do have Black Wiidows though. I found one in my house awhile back....🙂

Yeah, Mississippi and Louisiana are bug wonderlands. We had black windows and Brown Recluses everywhere when I was a kid. You've just got to be careful about it, and know what is what.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

...with no medical treatment at all.

The Brown Recluse bite specialist stated ""Almost all brown recluse spider bites heal nicely in two to three months without medical treatment at all." Clearly, if we are talking about a wound which is relatively minor in nature, we would be talking about healing in terms of two to three weeks, not two to three months.

The reasonable inference here is that the 'rest' of those bites which don't fall into the "almost all" category result in more extensive injuries requiring longer healing times and medical intervention. That still leaves the "almost all" category, those that will result in a localized necrosis injury significant enough that it will require two to three months to heal.

Also notice his use of the phrase "heal nicely". I've heard this said a hundred times by physicians, and it usually is said with a certain connotation; like 'in spite of the injury's rather shocking appearance, don't worry, it will heal nicely.'

If you're envenomated by a Brown Recluse, you should expect to suffer a localized necrotic and cellulitic injury that will range in size (skin area) from a dime to a quarter. Although it looks nasty, don't worry, it will 'heal nicely'...in two or three months.

That is not to say that they are completely harmless, but that surgical intervention (as would be indicated for our poor unfortunate) is unlikely. I would also think it HIGHLY unlikely that a given recluse bite would cause such an serious result as we see here.

This man's injury, if truly resulting from a Brown Recluse bite, appears to be among that percentage which fall outside of the "almost all" category. 😉

WTF. Heal with no medical treatment? My doctor's advice SUCKS.