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My friend came up to me saying that she got bit by a spider. it looked like a wasp sting but she said the nurse told her that it was a spider bite. it is white and puffed (about the size of a quoter($.25)) and has a red dot in the middle but she said she was sick and her head hurt. i really need some one to tell me or show me a picture a bite during the first day. and does all spider bites make two holes cause i have a scar from a spider bite when i was little and it has two holes? how does a spider bite you? with its mouth or something?
please answer really soon like today and really really really soon
I had what i believe was a spider bit since they were living in my room until i had cleaned them out, or so i thought. I woke up with a red mark and what i had thought was a pimple. I was running late so never got a good look at it. I could just feel it on my face (middle jaw area). I tried to pop it but it wasn’t that. there was little sorta crystal piece that feel off. And for the next few days it would sting. I assumed it was a spider bit, and a co-worker thought so too. I didn’t think much of it. a few days later a little tenderness was felt from them back of my jaw below my ear. i could just feel it was when I reached for items or when i layed down to bed. Then I felt a lump and it was getting bigger. It wasn’t visually but you could feel it. I finally went to the doctor and it was a gland that is there probably absorbed the contents of the bite. So now i am on anti biotics and anti inflammatory 3X’s a day!! Still have so we will see.
I live in Central California and I’ve recently been receiving bites on a regular basis by what I believe to be spiders. I originally started getting the bites at night while I sleep which led me to believe I had bed bugs, however while at work I was receiving bites and I found a small bug in my shirt so I trapped it and took it to my local pest control company.
They identified it as a spider and he told me that I must have a nest in my room to get as many bites as I did. The spider is small, about the size of a pin head, its body is black and it has brown legs. I’ve tried everything to get rid of them, I’ve fumigated my room twice and cleaned it all out but I think there are still spiders in it.
I believe they have gotten into my clothes because I continually receive new bites whenever I change clothes. I’ve washed my entire clothes collection twice, but still receive bites when I change into new clothes. However these things are so small I don’t feel the bites and I’ve only been able to catch two of them.
It’s pretty hard to describe the bites, it’s better to look at the pictures to see them. I don’t know how long they take to show up after a bite, but they itch like crazy and swell up into big welts before going back down in about an hour.
I have the exterminator coming tomorrow, but these things are driving me crazy. Can anyone help identify what kind of spiders these are? Because I thought spiderlings weren’t capable of biting and I also thought spiders aren’t prone to biting so why are these things hiding in my clothes and biting me every chance they get? It’s like they’re feeding on me it’s disgusting.
Here are the pictures of what the bites are like:
I have a red circle on my thigh about the size of a nickle with a lighter red around it about the size of a golf ball. It keeps getting bigger with a lump under it and a little tender there is no blistering or pus is this some kind of bite?
Hi i live in utah and got a red mark on my hip then it started to swell it has gone down but there is a rash and it looks like a pimple there are black widows at my house and i am a little worried please tell me what kind of spider bit me i have two bite marks not a cm. apart small red spot not the size of a dime but a little smaller
Been bit by a spider – dime size bite – around it a purple ring (size of softball) – – swollen feet, fever and headache – anybody know what it could be?
These are Jun’s spider bite pictures (8 days old). You can see how bad this is from the pictures below!
If you see a spider in your room, kill it first before it eats you alive :)
i recently noticed i had a bite on my back, looked at it in the mirror and it was a little swollen and looked like a pimple, it hurt so i popped it, and this semi hard thing was in there about 9mm big, not sure what to make of it, it doesn’t look bad or anything, just swollen and the mystery hard thing is creeping me out, anyone know what it is?
Greetings, I found this website most helpful (and fascinating!) and thought I’d take the time to attach the photo below which I believe to be a spider bite for your review since my regular doctor can’t see me today and I dread the emergency room…
I woke up Tuesday morning with an extremely itchy spot on my lower-inner thigh and when I touched it through my sweatpants, I felt a hard, raised spot. When I looked, I was horrified to see a small black puncture mark within a red circle that was surrounded by a ring of pale skin surrounded again by a gigantic bruise ring. I do bruise easily and I am sensitive to insect bites, but today I seem to be feeling systemic effects: stomach cramping, mild nausea and headache, achiness, all that seem to be relieved when I lay down and stay still. The swelling and bruising has subsided somewhat today when I took the attached photo.
Because of the severity of the bite visually, it’s difficult to dismiss the possibility that the symptoms I’m experiencing are related to the bite as I am a normally healthy person.
Any insight you may have would be greatly and gratefully appreciated!
Take care,
~ Nina S.
Malibu, CA
Update 4/4/08 – Hi, Jim…
I went to the doctor on Monday to have my supposed-spider bite checked out but all symptoms had subsided by that time – the bruising had almost completely faded and the puncture wound looked like no more than a flea or mosquito bite. I showed him the pictures taken when it was fresh and described the systemic symptoms I had experienced and he chalked it up to coincidence… He stated that the severe “cosmetic” reaction I had could have easily even been caused by a mere flea depending on what compound in their saliva I’m allergic to. He did run a Lyme Disease test since I was there for blood work anyways, but told me it would be extremely unlikely that I had contracted it without being aware of when or by what I was bit.
I will follow up with results, and I do appreciate your insight and concern!
Cheers!
A few days ago I was out in the woods with my cousin, we were just playing around, and we sat down on tree stumps. With all the mosquitoes out right now (Mississippi is swarming with them), I thought I’d been bitten by a mosquito that day, so I didn’t really think much of the raised white mark on my inner thigh.
I originally thought the bite might even just be a pimple left over from like, sweat or something. So typically, I squeezed it. Well, over the past two days it has swelled into a small sore type thing with a large ring of red. The bite mark is hard, almost like a scab, though it is sickly green and yellow, with a tiny black dot in the middle. The skin directly around the mark is hard and tight, and the entire bit where my leg is red is tight and the muscle aches and throbs. See the picture below:
My parents are taking me to the doctor tomorrow. We’re pretty sure it’s a spider bite(from my mom’s perspective, who’s had three pretty bad ones) though we’re just worried it might have been a brown recluse. As a dancer with a solo coming up for a show, it’s totally gonna suck if it leaves me unable to move much on my leg. Eh.
Update: 3/27/08
So I went to the doctor yesterday, and it indeed was a spider bite. He couldn’t identify exactly what kind of spider it was, but based on the symptoms he said it was most likely brown recluse.
He told me that if I had waited any longer, the medication he gave me might not have worked as well. I’ve got an antibiotic ointment, pills that I take four times a day for ten days, and I was given a shot to help speed things along. Apparently I have some sort of immunity or at least resistance to spider venom, and after like, five days, there’s still been no necrosis or anything. My doctor told me that if there was any necrotic tissue, it would be about the size of a pencil eraser at most and that I might not even scar.
The redness is almost completely gone now, and the only thing I really feel is a bit of tightness when I’m walking/stretching and a dull itch. Anyways, to anyone reading this, I urge you to go to the doctor if you even THINK that you’ve got a spider bite! I got off lucky, apparently. Don’t freak out, just be sure to get it checked out.
I was bit by something last Thursday not sure what it is but i believe it is a spider bite. It is located on my arm, it hurts and looks like a pimple; I am a worry wart so I’m scared. I have not been to a doctor yet but a friend told me to take baking soda and add water to make a paste and apply it to the infected area. I did the application and it seemed to be working but now it is getting worst!
Please tell me what to do.
Thank you!
Hi all,
Well the other day.. Saturday (It’s Monday now. I notice two little bite marks on my hand (well one bite but two little punctures. Now it does not hurt or anything like that, but should I still be concerned. I get very paranoid and worried and sometimes i get symptoms because i think about things so much that i actually make myself feel sick.
Now there is no redness except on the actual punctures and i have been getting headaches but obviously my problem is that i do work myself up so i don’t know if its just me or a symptom..
That is the approximate size of the bite, my camera did not show the mark so i had to just draw them on. (note, picture did not make it, resending)
please let me know
I have had problems with spider bites before and ended up going to a dermatologist not knowing what it was. The dermatologist told me I had a severe reaction to spider bites, more than normal. He also told me that a spider does not stay on your body, but will go around and bite you in many places and that it can take up to three days before all the bites will appear.
In the middle of the night while asleep something bite me all over one of my feet and I scratched it to the point in the morning I couldn’t tell if it was a spider bite or what. Today on my leg there appeared more bites but the thing that has me baffled at the moment, I can’t seem to see the two bite holes left by spider but I can see one indention in the middle of the bite. Has anyone ever experienced a bite that had only one indention in the middle instead of the usual two for a spider, and to your knowledge was this a spider bite or do you know of another creature that causes one indention in the middle? I don’t think these are flea bites as they are larger than flea bites in the redness and I don’t remember flea bites having a thing which I’m calling an indention in the middle.
Any help appreciated.
Got a large, purple blotch little bigger than a quarter on my face, and a smaller, red blotch about a quarter inch beside it. I’ve got a fever, a really bad headache, and I’m kinda dizzy. Also my skin feels raw, everywhere. Here is a picture of the blotch:
I got it sleeping, kinda wanna burn my bed now =/
So, I was in Florida last week with family, and on the drive home noticed an itchy bump on my neck. Thought it was a mosquito bite or similar, but I am lucky to be one who RARELY reacts to mosquito bites (thank you, camping and boating as a child!). Then, as I am scratching it (I know, I know, stop that!), I notice a smaller pea-sized bump about 1″ away just at my hairline, see the picture below:
Now, the larger one is about 1.5″ long, .5″ wide, red, raised, puffy and itchy/sore (like a cut or burn), but the small one is just a tiny pea-sized bump under the skin with no color, but rock-hard and very sensitive like a bruise or injection site from a shot. Odd… just woke up with them, bit in the night I guess. Any clues? It has been 4 days since I found them and not much change… which is really what worries me. Thanks and good luck to all with bites!
Just remembered that I did step on a large brown spider (short legs, kind of fuzzy, fat round abdomen) that was carrying an egg sack and heading towards my 2-year old son, after he dug her up in the sand in Florida, in the garden. Don’t know if that has anything to do with it or helps. I KNEW I should have washed off my shoe, but now am wondering if really could have any relation (most likely not- this was 2 days prior to the bite and I don’t think eggs or dead spiders bite).
3/23/08 Follow-up: OK, so I went to the doctor, since after the bite, my throat and neck started to feel sore and bruised. No big deal- definitely a bug bite, maybe spider. He recommended a little Benadryl topical, and gave me a prescription for an antibiotic, but only if it got worse. The Benadryl helped a lot with the swelling and pink spot, and now it’s not so itchy. Better safe than sorry, and he had lived in the Florida region where I was staying, and said there are plenty of bugs/spiders that could have caused it. Looks better already! Thanks to Jim for the post and photos, and quick response! Good luck to all others who have become spider prey :)
Hi, I am from San Diego California and about 5 days ago i got bit. Even though it doesn’t look like much it hurts like you wouldn’t believe! It’s like a scabbed up rash about the size of a quarter. It is tender all around the bite area. See the picture below.
I believe this could save a limb or even your life if you are ever bitten by a spider such as the brown recluse.
“IF” you can get a doctor to prescribe the LOWEST milligram dosage of a nitroglycerin patch- take the patch and cut it out to cover your spider bite. Make sure its not ANY bigger than your bite. Put it on your bite and leave it there. No matter hat stages your bite is in (the earlier the better) but even if it has ulcered it will heal. I’m most confident this will work! Good Luck!
Hi. I live in the Chicago suburbs and was bitten several times on the torso in a movie theater. At first they looked like mosquito bites, but 3 days later, the red areas around the bites are spreading and it’s itchier than ever. I do not have any black marks, whiteheads or blisters. It it possible though, that fang marks are visible. I am going on vacation and have no time to see a doctor. Anyone know what kind of bite this is?
looks like a bruise but has a dot in center with dry patchy area. about as big as a dime but bruise is length wise about as big as an inch
I was in cancun mexico all last week but early last week while there i noticed the start of a half dollar sized rash on the back of my hand starting. also there was two little blisters protruding from it. as the week went on the blisters started to heal but the rash got worse and turned a deep red brown like a birthmark. its been a week and a half since and its still there.
could this be a spider bite and will this go away?
slight burning with itching sensation about 7pm. 3/9/08 progressed quite rapidly to oozing pimple like bumps in a circular pattern buy early next morning. started to swell in that section, no fever, no heat to area, no pain, only tight due to swelling. doctor has prescribed antibiotics and topical steriod cream, has anybody heard these symptoms before?
This post was so good and can help so many, that we had to create a page for it, see our page on Staph Infection for details.
Hi, I am in London UK, and was bitten by a brown recluse (I believe) as killed 3 of them in 6 weeks. I’m putting anti-ant powder down but my hand keeps swelling up but no pain – I am taking antihistamines and have done for 3 weeks but soon as I stop taking them, the swelling comes back on the hand. I’m amazed this is still swellingand wonderinf if I ought to change antihisamine and if anyone else is having success. I have no blistering etc YET and hope to avoid that. It’s a very weird experience, I’ve lived here all my life and never come across these spiders before. They like the dark, so I leave lights on all the time.
I’d like to know how the got to the UK?
woke up with two small red bumps on the back of my upper knee…just wondering if this is a spider bite? and if it is…is it the kind I should be worried about?
Hi there, fellow bitten ones….I live in Oregon and get bit and stung many times a year, and as I get older the wounds and pain and swelling all tale a lot longer to heal.
First of all, dont mess around with bites of any kind or self treat or ignore your illnesses. (think Jim Henson)
However, I now feel comfortable using these “treatments” on myself, and they seem to help me.
What I have found that works for me for bites and stings…..
1. Cold treatment. Soak the area in cold water or use ice or frozen peas wrapped in a cloth to prevent frostbite, as soon as possible.I will rub an ice cube directly on the sting/bite immediately. Just keep the area as cold as you can stand without freezing. Buy a couple of the cheapest frozen peas in a bag, so you can rotate them in and out of your freezer. Ice in a ziplock bag will work too. Remember to not freeze your skin,so remove the pack as soon as your skin goes numb. .
2.Benadryl pills to fight the allergic reaction/swelling .Take as the instructions say.
3.Caladryl lotion or anything with camphor in it.
4.DO NOT SQUEEZE, SCRATCH, POKE, PROD, OR ANNOY THE AREA!
I know it feels good, or you just like to watch the “show”, but all you are doing is prolonging your agony and risking infection.
5.See a qualified doctor. Dont listen to friends about diagnosis or treatment, even old farts like me.
I have observed first hand the quickness a yellow jacket/hornet/wasp can sting you, leaving double punctures that look like a spider bite.
My body reacts pretty much the same to a bite or sting. Pain, swelling, blistering, etc.
A lot of the pics posted have the same appearance of my yellow jacket (bee) stings. If the bee strafes me , I get the row of blisters like in the previous post.
A lot of the pics appear like my flea or chigger bites.
A lot more look like my poison ivy or oak, where I had the oils on my hands and scratched myself.
I use the same treatment on all, and am doing so right now as I just got bit yesterday on my finger. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr thanks craig
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Yesterday aroung 1PM I noticed a small white itchy circle on the top of my hand. By 7 PM it was painful red and itchy and slightly swollen. Over night my whole arm was sore and a long red trail of a slightly raised red rash appeared going all the way up and passed my elbow. Also during the ngiht the bite swelled up to the point where my knuckles are no lnger visible and my entire hand was about 1 inch swollen and very red, itchy and painful. The muscles in my forearm are sore and slightly spasmatic. I am leaving in about 40 minutes to seek treatment.
No cortisone will work, and it just seems to keep spreading. I never saw the spider or felt the bite. I havent taken pictures yet but I wil, and I will post them. Now it is even hard to type andalmost impossible to write. I havent read or seen anything that gives a clue as to what bit me, there are no bite marks to be found. No bullseye, no blisters, etc. I do feel very weak, sweaty and slightly dizzy like I am slightly tipsy. I have the worst luck I tell you….
3 days ago i woke up while scratching at something and found that i was rather wounded in two lines each an inch and a half long on my tricep, each line consists of about 7 bite areas though its hard to tell. See the image below.
There are other bites on a vein on my inner forearm and another couple by my elbow.
They itch more and more and sweat out a clear and yellowy sap which dries in flaky patterns not quite like a scab around the wound.
My arm is also sore in a dull way, and i have had headaches on and off since i got them.
It is incredibly itchy and distracting.
What does anyone think?
I live in southern California if that helps and there are pictures here.
Hi.
I have a mark on my arm that looks like some of the pictures you have posted on this site… but I’m not really sure about it. I have a small bump with a white head. There is a perfect red circle all around it about the size of a quarter (it was the size of a dime earlier)
I really didn’t think anything about it until today, because earlier there was no perfect circle around it, and I haven’t messed with it at all. Someone notify me of what the heck it is please…
Hi – hoping you can help me.
I currently live in Oregon. I travelled to Columbia, SC on 2/24. I believe that during the night of 2/24, I was bitten by a spider (perhaps a brown recluse). On the morning of 2/25 my left cheek was a little red & you could see two puncture marks. By 9:30p.m. my face was red, the area was hard & my neck on the left was stiff & red. My gland was swollen & sore. I went to the ER. At or about 3am they gave me antibiotics IV & sent me hope with a prescription for antiobiotics. I still have a bright red area on my cheek. What do you think? Thanks!
my father got bite by a spider he don’t know what kind can anyone help?he has fever,chills ,night sweats and his mouth hurts !the bite is about the size of a nickel now.it don’t have a hole it’s just bumped up looks like the might be pus in it but it won’t come out!we live in conyers georgia.
thank you
victoria smith
This spider bites in a row leaving a welt like bump that itches intensely. Have never seen one and it seems to only happen at the beginning of spring.
My daughter noticed a bite on her arm yesterday. It’s tiny, red with a small pimper type bump in the middle. Today it started looking like a burise was apprearing around the bite. It does not itch. What do you think?
the bite is on the arm. about 3 inches down from the bite it looks like a terrible rash with hives. the bite itself is a little puffy and the mark of the bite is looks like a 1/4 of an inch long. is this a spider bite? what kind? is it dangerous.
February 26, 2008
Minnesota
I don’t’ have a picture but wondering what bit me and what I can do about it. I was taking a nap down in our basement rec room. When I woke up, behind my knee hurt. I have a perfectly round red spot about the same size as a nickel behind my upper calf. That was two days ago. Now it has a visible bump in the middle that is lighter in color, almost yellow. It itches but only hurts if I somehow hit it on something. I worry because I have never seen anything like this and do not have insurance to go to the doctor. Anyone have an idea on what this is from, spider or insect? What can I do about it?
I live in Portland, OR. I’m not sure what I was bitten by and I never saw the spider.
The bite is on my forearm and its a red welt about 10cm in diameter with a hole in the middle that is turning white. The areas where I have viens are turning red and I can see that the redness is slowly creeping up my arm through the veins. I have a dull headache and neck pain. Any idea what would cause this? Does it require a doctor’s attention?
About 2 weeks ago, I noticed a spider bite on my leg. I squeezed the pus out of it, and it wasn’t sore anymore. Then about a week later, it started getting really itchy. I squeezed more pus out of it, and then put anti-biotic on it. Then it got really itchy. My mom put anti-itch cream on it, and then a red, raised circle of itchiness developed around it, about the size of a quarter. Does anyone know what kind of spider this would be?
Laura,
My son had a similar bite on his chest when he was 3 months old and then when he was 1 yr old. It got swollen and hard underneath and we took him to the ER. It ended up being MRSA. It is a resistant bacteria Staph Infection. It can be very serious if not treated properly. The only antibiotic that will treat it is Bactrim which is a sulfur drug. They have to in most cases, lance it open and drain the pus and then pack it with gaze so it stays open and heals from the inside out. As well has putting them on an antibiotic. I would if you haven’t already done so or found out what it is, take him to your dr or to the ER and ask them about the MSRA. Hopefully your son does not have this, but it sounds like it could be. Even if they drained the pus out, but didn’t leave it open to heal it will close up and form pus again and you will be right back to square one.
I live in Key Largo, Fl…I woke up this morning and noticed a silver dollar sized bruise looking thing on my left leg just below the knee on the calf muscle. It hurts constantly, but occassionaly there are very sharp, stabbing pains. I live in an old wooden house, surrounded by woods, and spiders and giant centipedes are everywhere…Anyway…the affected area isn’t swollen, but it’s tender to the touch, and the skin wrinkles when I push on it… it’s all purple and slight greenish-blue tinge to it…Kinda like it’s necrotic…I hope like heck it isn’t a brown recluse bite…I just got out of debt from a surgery over two years ago…with no insurance, I just can’t afford a doctor visit right now. Seems to be alot of folks on here in the same boat.
I think I was bit by a spider – there are two small scabs the size of finishing nail heads right next to each other. The bite is on my middle finger knuckle – it is swollen and there is pain around the knuckle and up through my two middle fingers. It almost feels like I jammed my knuckle or arthritis.
Thanks for any response!
The image below is of my bottom. I’m not sure what insect bit me, but I’m a little confused about it because it is the size of a baseball but not all of it is red.
I am not vomiting or have stomach pain or anything but I did have a temputure of 99.2, the highest so far. Any wisdom anyone would like to pass on? I am kind of worried.
This is day 3 and I have been using creams and pain reliever and fever reducer. The bite doesn’t hurt all the time just when I sit down.
Any advice would be appreciated!
I don’t know what I have, after talking with a few folks they think I’ve got spider bites on my face. Please see the image below.
A theory here is that I walked into a spider web on Wednesday and collected spider eggs. Went home, slept, took shower in the morning (Thursday). Thursday & Friday, asymptomatic. Saturday morning my forehead hurt. By Saturday afternoon, this started forming. So (in theory) I could have picked up some spider eggs on Wednesday night, deposited them in my bed, then they hatched on Friday night and bit me through the night… is this even possible?
Today is Monday.
Is a doctor visit in order?
Do these look like spider bites? I have no fever or anything, but the area hurts. Doesn’t really itch, just hurts. Also my neck on that side hurts.
I hope Cindy did something about her bite. My husband was bitten in the scrotum whilst sleeping. Within a couple of days, he was feeling most unwell and the site of the bite turned black. Necrotising fasciaitus had set in. He underwent drastic surgery to remove the skin and underlaying tissue. Drastic measures but saved his life. We have no idea what kind of spider caused it. We live in the UK and get more than our fare share of large house spiders….which I now exterminate whenever I see them.
Hi I live in Germany and my husband was bit by something. The bite left almost pimple like pustuels (sp?) and itched terribly. Then in the morning after his shower around the bite was red with a red line going from the bite down to his armpit.
We took him to the emergency room and the German Dr.s don’t know what it was that bit him. They put something on the wound then cast his arm. We thought it to be a Brown Recluse but after looking at some pictures it doesn’t look like that at all.
He’s not feeling ill, no fever, but the area is very tender and his arm hurts if he moves it. We live right next to a forest so it really could be anything, and I’m not quite up to date with German wildlife. If this sounds like anything you have seen please let me know.
Now I have to go through the house and hopefully (I’m not sure I want to) find this thing.
UPDATE 2/20/08:
We found out what it was, it wasn’t a spider bite. I was a staph infection. We saw a picture on your site that looked similar to the thing on my husbands arm, and several people left comments to this person that it looked like a staph infection. So thank you for having a site that gave us the answer. We were able to take care of it and the infection is healing nicely.
Thanks for the help and for having the site!!!
Sara
I think that I have been bitten by a spider but I am not sure what kind. The bite area is hard and alot of pusy white stuff came out. It looked like a mosquito bite with a whitehead on it, and I have three of them on the same leg. A little white ball came out of one of them, and theother two, the skin came off of it and it looks funny. I do believe it is a spider that is doing it.
Yesterday my one year old daughter was sent home from daycare because of some kind of bite on her stomach. It was a little larger that quarter in size pink circle with brown center. The colors were very light at the time. I took her to the doctor and he said it looks like some kind of insect bite to just take her home, and if it gets worse to bring her back. This morning while getting her dressed I looked at the area again, today the brown spot is much larger but almost looks like a burn that is scabbing over. The pink area surrounding is not as large and is also a little darker in color. There is no pus, and of course she can’t tell me how it feels. I do know she is very clingy now and wanting to be held and tired.
feb 14 2008
i live in chicago and saturday i got bit by a spider.i was at work and i didn’t feel the bite.i felt something running up my leg so i sqeezed what was in side my pants. didn’t pay much attention till i felt an itch.i saw a white dot on my knee.nothing was hurting at the time till a day later.it began to get red and the white dot started turing purple.went to the doctor and gave me anti-drug but the pain got worst.im in my fou day of getting bite and i have a something that looks like a bullseye now.the pain got so bad i could not walk right for one day.do you think it was a brown recluse.i’ll send you some pictures…
Hello,
I live in South Dakota…were there are just basically daddylong legs and those kind of spiders…I am 13 and I just recently moved downstairs where there are more spiders…….
I recently just notise a little red spot on my chest, it is a bit itchy, and I don’t think it is swelling up (as much as I can tell) but earlyier today it had a little bit of white stuff on it..I think it was scabbing over (or pusing) so I put some medication on it and it went back to normal..whenever I take a shower or bath it looks and feels a lot better….no other symptons… so I’m pretty sure its not serious but I just want to make sure its not something to worry about..please repley back…I also do not know any spider of this….??? so please please repley back
I live in Ft Worth TX. Four days ago I awoke with burning on my neck.
Looking in the mirror, I saw a puncture, (or maybe 2 tiny ones together) and the beginning of little blisters. I took a couple of Keflex that I already had and put some anti-biotic cream on it. On the third day, I went to the doctor, who told me to keep up the same treatment.
It kept getting worse, hurting more, and spreading. I called the doctor back, who was off work that day, and she returned my call and told me to go to the emergency room at the hospital. I was seen after a 7 hour wait, given a shot, and stronger antibiotics. Today, I awoke, with sores in my hair, all the way around the back of my neck and now creeping up on my face, toward a spot that had stitches removed last week. (4 days before the bite) I presume it was a spider, as I am plagued with spiders in my home.
My home is being fumigated tomorrow, but too late to solve this. Meanwhile, I am beginning to panic because of the location of the bite. Have been to a doctor, been to the hospital, and don’t know where to turn next.
Can you please advise me. I am terrified! Kathryn Hamby
Woke to an intense stinging in my armpit and upper inner arm, no redness,no evidence of a bite. For days had several episodes of flashing sting-like sensations in the area. Thought I had shingles. That has subsided but the area is sensitive to clothing yet the tissue feels numb. Never did see a spider….dead or alive. I live in Maryland and it’s winter here so no open windows. What kind of spider/insect bit me? Will the problem resolve?
For the past two days me and my little sister have had a red lump on our face kinda like a pimple thats swollen but on opposite sides (she has it on her left and I have it on my right) there is also a bit of swelling on my jaw (outside) I studied up a bit on white tails and read that they prey on other smaller spiders.We’re not sure when we’ve got bitten but I’ve seen little black spiders in my room.(they might have nested over the holidays because we were overseas.) Im not sure if its a white tail thats been in our room (we share a room) or the little black spiders itself that could of bitten us.There is no bite marks just a round pus filled circle in the centre.
PLESE HELP!