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Brown recluse got me
Can someone tell me the cure? I can't afford to get very ill right now. It
just happened an hour ago. Caught the little bugger in the act but too late to stop it biting. |
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Brown recluse got me
"Pat" wrote in message
et... Can someone tell me the cure? I can't afford to get very ill right now. It just happened an hour ago. Caught the little bugger in the act but too late to stop it biting. *RUSH* to the emergency room. This is what caused Pam S.'s extended hospital stay in critical care and several surgeries. A brown recluse's bite causes the flesh to literally rot off the bone. If you don't have the money, go to a hospital that accepts federal aid and they will be forced to treat you even without payment. Hugs, CatNipped |
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Brown recluse got me
I forgot about that brown recluse remedy that I found a while back, some
herbal compound. What the heck was it again??? Made right here in Ava, too! |
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Brown recluse got me
"Pat" wrote |I forgot about that brown recluse remedy that I found a while back, some | herbal compound. What the heck was it again??? Made right here in Ava, too! Found it... http://www.brownrecluses.com/ Looks like it's made from a few simple herbs that grow locally, plus activated carbon. I can get the herbs easily enough, they grow in my yard, and I suppose Walmart has the carbon. |
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"CatNipped" wrote | *RUSH* to the emergency room. This is what caused Pam S.'s extended | hospital stay in critical care and several surgeries. A brown recluse's | bite causes the flesh to literally rot off the bone. | | If you don't have the money, go to a hospital that accepts federal aid and | they will be forced to treat you even without payment. Closest hospital is 55 miles one way, and me without transportation. |
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Brown recluse got me
"Pat" wrote in message et... Can someone tell me the cure? I can't afford to get very ill right now. It just happened an hour ago. Caught the little bugger in the act but too late to stop it biting. PAT GO TO THE ER NOW DON'T HESITATE. THERE IS NO KNOW NON-MEDICAL CURE There are kits you can but to draw out the venom but you have to have them on hand to do it immediate and still you need to go to the ER http://www.brown-recluse.com |
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Brown recluse got me
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:36:51 -0500, "Pat"
wrote: Can someone tell me the cure? I can't afford to get very ill right now. It just happened an hour ago. Caught the little bugger in the act but too late to stop it biting. See http://firstaid.webmd.com/spider_bit...fi rstaid.htm. There isn't an antivenom currently available in the USA for brown recluse bites, according to the page above. The treatment is a tetanus immunization (if you haven't had one recently), painkillers, antibiotics, and antihistamine creams to relieve itching. You will need a follow-up with your doctor because the bite will need to be checked daily for 3 or 4 days. If the tissue around the bite dies, the doctor will need to remove the dead tissue in order to prevent secondary infections such as gangrene. I don't know for certain that the bite I got five years or so ago was from a brown recluse, but the scab that formed had the characteristic pattern (medium red center, very dark red border). I went to a walk-in clinic, and was treated with an antibiotic injection plus 10 days of oral antibiotics. Either I got only a small dose of the poison, or the spider that bit me wasn't really a brown recluse (I didn't see it), because I didn't have any deep tissue damage. I did have a surface scar that gradually faded away over the next 3 years. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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Brown recluse got me
"Pat" wrote in message
... "CatNipped" wrote | *RUSH* to the emergency room. This is what caused Pam S.'s extended | hospital stay in critical care and several surgeries. A brown recluse's | bite causes the flesh to literally rot off the bone. | | If you don't have the money, go to a hospital that accepts federal aid and | they will be forced to treat you even without payment. Closest hospital is 55 miles one way, and me without transportation. Call 911! Seriously, Pat, if this was a brown recluse spider that bit you, you could be in serious trouble! Hugs, CatNipped |
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Brown recluse got me
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:57:33 -0500, "Pat"
wrote: "Pat" wrote |I forgot about that brown recluse remedy that I found a while back, some | herbal compound. What the heck was it again??? Made right here in Ava, too! Found it... http://www.brownrecluses.com/ Looks like it's made from a few simple herbs that grow locally, plus activated carbon. I can get the herbs easily enough, they grow in my yard, and I suppose Walmart has the carbon. There IS no cure for those spiders Pat... if they're selling one it's got to be snakeoil. The treatment is antibiotics to try and prevent infection (or nip it in the bud) because the end results are nasty, nasty, nasty... if you're sure it was a brown recluse don't hang around - get your butt to the hospital NOW. The longer you leave it, the worse the results will get. |
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Brown recluse got me
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:25:01 -0400, Karen AKA Kajikit
wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:57:33 -0500, "Pat" wrote: "Pat" wrote |I forgot about that brown recluse remedy that I found a while back, some | herbal compound. What the heck was it again??? Made right here in Ava, too! Found it... http://www.brownrecluses.com/ Looks like it's made from a few simple herbs that grow locally, plus activated carbon. I can get the herbs easily enough, they grow in my yard, and I suppose Walmart has the carbon. There IS no cure for those spiders Pat... if they're selling one it's got to be snakeoil. The treatment is antibiotics to try and prevent infection (or nip it in the bud) because the end results are nasty, nasty, nasty... if you're sure it was a brown recluse don't hang around - get your butt to the hospital NOW. The longer you leave it, the worse the results will get. The biggest risk is not from the direct effects of the venom, but the fact that all sorts of nasty anaerobic bacteria, including gangrene, are likely to take advantage of the dying tissue. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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