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Originally Posted by transplant99
As a survivor of a brown recluse bite i can assure you that if you get bit by one...it becomes obvious too late to treat easily.
I relayed this story on this board some time ago, but it serves as a lesson for all. Should you have any question as to a bite...by all means make your way to the hospital/clinic ASAP. It just isnt worth waiting if there is any doubt. I waited a couple days or so and it ended up being a really bad decision that now will affect me for the rest of my life.
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...hlight=recluse |
The problem with the Brown Recluse bite in the grand scheme of things is no one really knows what percentage of bites get nasty or even many of the times why they get so bad (is it the bite alone or bite + infection etc).
For the most part though for them to bite you pretty much have to be actively killing them by squishing them as they aren't at all aggressive. But thanks to your story in that other thread I told my wife before we moved down here that I was never EVER crawling around under the house or deck. Someone else can do that for me. And we keep traps along the walls where to bed legs are etc.
I hate spiders.