brown recluse bit

[Sasqy]

Will keep rotting too, until you remove the core !
Its some kind of little hard mass, that keeps rotting the flesh.

[Bucknaked]

OP’s photo

[stevieray54]

Had a co worker, that was bitten on his leg. Just ingnored it. Next c

[stevieray54]

too big of finger. The next day after ignoring it. Leg swelled red streaks. Ended up hospital for 2 weeks with Iv’s and pain kills.Those things you don’t want to ignore a bite from.

[Strummer]

I got bit on the ankle calf area a few years ago . I got lucky it wasn’t a bad one . Had a volcano looking area that stuck up maybe an 1/2 . Lanced and drained it a few times and was put on antibiotics. .

[adam_p]

Most "brown recluse bites" are actually staph infections.

[S-3 Ranch]

Got a notification from one of our safety reps out in the field yesterday that a contractor went into a porta can to do his business and got bit on the sack by a black widow….. jeeez, I hate spiders

Over the weekend the conneco safety guy was complaining about a guy who chopped off the head of a rattlesnake
then picked it up and got bitten on the hand

[twosixteens]

Most "brown recluse bites" are actually staph infections.

Please explain

[S-3 Ranch]

Please explain

“”Brown recluse spider bites are often misdiagnosed as staph infections, especially methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)“”
but any puncture wound is open for staphylococcus

[Hogmauler]

Def a deep hole !
this was the third one in my calf.

This is how mine started out. I put some antibiotic cream on it and called it good. Didn’t know I had been bitten by a recluse. The bite was on my elbow. Ran fever for two days. Day three my left forearm turned hard like a potato. Day four I looked at it in the mirror and it was starting to cave in. I bent my elbow and **** and blood ran out of it.
To the doctor. From doctor to plastic surgeon who happened to be writing a book on brown recluse spider bites. He admitted me that day and operated the next day. He said I didn’t realize how serious this was.
Was in a plastic cast that circulated warm water through it for five days to prepare it for grafting. In hospital
He took a chunk of skin from under my left arm and grafted on my elbow where he had cored it out. Larger than a half dollar.
Hard cast for two more weeks. Took cast off. All was good until he started to remove the c shaped staples. Was pretty painful.
From then on until I left, my nickname was “Patch”.
recluses can live in whatever clothes you haven’t worn for a while. Like your winter clothes, shoes, etc etc.
To sum up
Bitten
Fever
skin begins to die at bite site
skin caves into hole
Youve waited too long

[cj7zrcool]

Many years ago I had a cousin that got bit on his calf and it ate a spot out as big as a baseball. Monty was a BIG boy and it put him down for weeks.

[adam_p]

Please explain

MRSA or "staph infection" is a skin infection that causes necrosis. People get it, see the necrosis, develop a nasty infection and like to attribute it to a Brown recluse bite because of what they think they know about brown recluse bites. Truth is they are usually pretty minor and the necrosis is small. The big giant gaping wounds are almost always staph infection. There is also the stigma behind staph infections coming from poor hygiene which can happen but isn't always the case. Staph is everywhere.

Now you could get bit by a brown recluse and develop staph, but that can happen with anything that breaks your skin.

It is all treated with stout antibiotics so it doesn't really matter what caused the infection.

[BrandonA]

Got bit on the calf in Highschool. Took several months to get healed

[scott.str]

Hunted a blind we called black widow. Now I’m glad I never got bit.

[bigtex76]

Make sure you go to the doctor.