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hi i woke up yesterday and saw a read dot on my hand i felt it but it didnt have a bump on it. today when i woke up it had a bump and was itching. im not sure wat it is but i would like to know if anyone knows if this is a spider bite or not please let me know ASAP! my mom said she would take me to the doctor if it hasnt gone away within a week.
thanks for reading! :)
I have just come back from Australia, and have this crazy itchy rash type thing on my thigh. It is all bumpy and is about as big as the palm of my hand. Does this sound like a bite of any kind, I have never had anything like it and it has been there for about a week now.
I was bitten by a spider three years ago in South-Central PA (Cumberland County). I was bitten on the right hand while I was sleeping. I woke up with a swollen hand and three red marks that traveled from my hand to my wrist. The swelling did not cease and my skin became red and warm to the touch. The swelling started to spread up my arm throughout the morning.
Once I arrived from from school I was put on an antibiotic which helped to alleviate the swelling. However, my hand is still abnormally large, and I know encounted edema of both hands and both feet.
My hands and feet especially swell when I am in the heat and/or an enclosed area.
I have no tolerance for the heat and each doctor I see has trouble figuring out what’s wrong with me because my blood work is fine.
Do you think I really was bitten by a spider? Do spiders bite in “threes”?
hi. About 2 weeks ago my boyfriend noticed what looked like a pimple on his elbow and he pooped it around 8 am and everything seemed to be fine until around 3pm his elbow felt weird and had swelled up it looks like he has a golf ball under his skin.
So i took him to the ER and the doctor said that his pimple had gotten infected and i do not believe that is correct i don’t see how that can happen in such a little time. So the doctor drew out the fluid and the swelling did not go done and he put him on 2 antibiotics which have done nothing. So i took him to another doctor and he said there was a infection and he drew out more fluid and he also thinks it might be bursitis which i do not believe at all i think that he got bit by some sort of spider. If you could help me out anyone that would be great . Thank you
Hello:
Back on 3 June 2008 I was standing at work (I am a bank teller) and had an itch on my ankle. I scratched and scratched and pulled down my sock to see nothing but feel a tiny bump, no larger than a mosquito bite. I thought nothing of it and just tried not to think of it and it seemed to ‘vanish’.
Later that evening it began to itch again but just red from my scratching and continued to ‘disappear’ when I forced myself to focus on other actitivties and only would remind me of it itching every once and a while. It did this all though 4 June 2008, not so much at work but more in the evening when I was getting ready for bed and there was nothing more to distract me.
Come 5 June 2008 (yesterday), I wore a sandal-like shoe to work and about half-way through my day realized that I was scratching my ankle unusually frequently. My co-workers and I looked at it to find it had become more red, slightly swollen, and terribly itchy. The bite spot was the reddest and then the ‘itch radius’ around it was red from my scratching. I still though it was a mere bug bite and just itchy but it would fade away. But it itched and itched and when I got home and took my ‘strappy’ shoe off, my ankle swelled! Not to any baseball size, or anything. But enough to stretch the skin so it was noticeable when I walked. To be honest (and no offense meant!), it looked similiar to when elderly sometimes have trouble with circulation down to their feet. The ankle doesn’t just swell into a ball shape, but it does swell enough to not match the other and look uncomfortable. Did I mention it itched? So I put my foot up all evening and night and placed ice on it.
This morning I went to a doctor and he gave me an antihistamine, antibiotic, some perscription anti-bacterical cream, and told me to get itch cream and ice and gave me a tetnus(sp?) shot. It looks a bit more purple to me at the site of where the bite was and I think the ‘itching radius’ is expanding. It does not itch where the bite-dot is at, it itches in a oval shape with one side reaching down on the arch of my foot and the other towards the middle of the top of my foot. (I took pictures today as I wrote this)
As for specifics, I have no fever, no chills, no stomach problems, no headaches (out of the ordinary, I get some from work and my contacts every once and a while). The only symptoms is the slight swelling and the ITCHING!!! (If I could underline that a million times, I would) I live south of Denver, CO and the only other place other than home (2nd floor apartment building) and my work was on Sunday, 1 June 2008, I was on my parent’s mountain property in the Rockies not far from where I live.
I’m not too worried about my flesh decomposing or anything, but I was just hoping to figure out what the heck bit me!!! I would love to get this itching to stop, too! I haven’t been this irritable since chicken pox! Thanks!!
I live in Indiana, just north of Indianapolis. This bite I have I must have gotten early Sunday morning while I slept on my couch. It started turning red and itching pretty severely that same afternoon. Now, on Friday, it is red, pink and a little purple and it itches and burns now. My muscles are a little tense, but the bite is not feverish. The puncture wounds are about 1 cm apart and the “bruising” (for lack of a better term) is just under 2cm across. I’m not too worried, but I’d like to at least know what spider bit me.
Hi I woke up 5 days with part of my upper lip swollen. I noticed there were to two small bumps. My family thinks it is most likely a spider bite. It was fairly small bumps which started scarring day before yesterday so i figured it was not cold sores. It didn’t hurt too much but there was little bit of pain and sensitivity.
Later the other I saw a spider on my bed. It was a small spider. I don’t usually see spiders in my room. This was one of the few times.
Do you think it is a spider bite??
Do you think spider bites are contagious?
What if someone else came in contact with it like if I kissed a baby on the cheek or my boyfriend on the mouth.
How can I make it heal faster because I keep messing with my lip.
Hey guys,
I have included a picture below which I think is a spider bite. I happened to be in the hospital this pass weekend. A coworker sent me your web site which indeed helped me Identify that I have a spider bite.
The Doctor still can’t say what bit me. But I have compared your pictures with mine and they look identical. I am still recovering, everything is
looking good in my arm.
Great web spider site it help me a lot more of what I have thought.
Thanks,
Rhina
New Jersey
My friend has what we think/thought was a zit on the back of his left arm, about an inch or two above the elbow. It’s a little smaller than a dime at the surface, but radiates out to larger than a quarter. It’s hard to the touch. There is some pain.
We’ve squeezed it and have gotten some acne material out of it, which is why we thought it was a zit. Friday, when I squeezed it, I could see there was something harder in there. I squeezed it enough to bring it over the surface and pulled the piece out the rest of the way with tweezers.
It was a large chunk, almost the size of a small pencil eraser. It didn’t appear there was anything in it. (He works around metal, so we thought this could be caused from a metal splinter.)
Today he was told it was a spider bite, someone even suggested a brown recluse, but I knocked that idea down because they’re rare in this area. He also said it feels like there’s more stuff ready to come out.
Does this sound like a spider bite?
I am from central pa i think that i have been bitten by a spider at first i thought it was a mosquito bite but like an hour later i realized that it was a hedge welt on my leg about three inches wide in a circle and the next day it got really stiff and hot like a fever
Hi,
I’ve a question about spider bites. I am not sure I’ve got a spiderbite, but I think I have… I’m a little bit scary about the eventually suites…
Is it true (my sister tells me) that you can have eggs of the spider in the spiderbite??? Or is this completely nonsense (I hope so…).
My 3 year old son started out with red bumps on his knee and now has what appears to be a pus-filled protrusion surrounded by a red area as shown in the picture below.
Any ideas?
I’m not sure if I have a bite(s)? The other night I was standing there when a small black and yellow spider was tickling my ankle. I kicked it off and squished it. I woke up the next morning and my ankle hurt.
There are two little red holes right next to each other. One on my ankle, one on my calf. About an hour ago my ankle and calf started to hurt really bad.
I don’t know if I have a spider bite and that’s why it hurts? The bites are reddish/pink but not swelling or anything. But my leg HURTS!! I think it was a garden spider that I squished.
I woke up a few nights ago with what appeared to be spider bites. There were about 5-10 bumps that look like bites. They itch and are swollen. Also I am the only one in my house to get bit by spiders. I found one in my shirt this morning and also on my towel, I was doing the laundry that I didn’t get to last night and I checked every article before putting it away and I only found the 2 in my items. Does anyone know if there is a certain scent that spiders are drawn to? Or can they smell your blood and know if it would taste good? I know it’s weird but I’m curious why I’m the only one who gets bit. Please help if you can!!!
Is it possible to make a house spider-proof, and would this mean more other bugs, flies etc in the home?
I was bitten by what i think is a spider. I never saw the spider and did not even know I had a bite until I was going to bed and as I turned over I had this itch, but it was also painful. I started to scratch but it hurt to do so, so I stopped. It felt like a mosquito bite and when i looked at it I knew it wasn’t. It is red with little pus heads in the middle and is swollen and hard like a mosquito bite. it has been 5 days since i noticed the bite and it is getting redder and there is a light red circle now surrounding it. I would take a picture but it is on my buttocks. I have not seen a Dr. I live in Okc,Oklahoma
I was bitten in my sleep so I have no idea what bit me. I am trying to submit a pic and cannot figure out how!!
my husband was bitten by something that left a quarter size bump with a bunch of small blisters on the bump it is very painful to the touch and very warm when you touch it,we live in the woods in Oklahoma,please help
My husband was bite yesterday after a few hours it became swollen then hot with pain. Today its more swollen very hot had small pus head and he says it hurts going up his arm.
See the picture of the insect bite below:
I’m unsure what type of bite and if immediate medical assistance is necessary? Thank you for your help.
Cathy
I had something bite me on the inside of my lower arm last night. There was one red raised spot about the size of a dime.
Tonight there are two more red raised spots about 1/4 – 1/8 inch from the first spot. All three spots are raised. At first I thought I had a mosquito bite but now I think it was a spider. Am a little concerned as to why it seems to be spreading.
Okay, I live in South Carolina and I was at school yesterday. We went outside before lunch and I walked through a spider web. I wiped off my arms and stuff and no one told me if there was a spider on me or not. So I thought there wasn’t one. Then in science I started noticing little itchy bumps on a red welt or whatever. It was swollen and itchy. It started hurting, but not a lot.
We went outside during science and I looked back down and it was huge!! About…maybe 7 minutes later I looked down and the welt was like yellow-ish and pink-ish. In fourth period (right after science) i noticed it looked like the state of South Carolina. Seriously. lol. It was still yellow, but had gone down a bit.
When I got home, it was just a red lump. But around 10pm or so, i noticed it was all pus filed like an ant bite, so i popped it. Now it just has this hole in it or whatever. My science teacher said it wasn’t a spider bite if it didn’t have like bite marks in it. It looks like there is some, but i can’t tell if it’s just my pores being enlarged from the swelling. It’s now a swollen lump with the hole in it, and feels kinda warm.
I don’t know what to do about it. I have put various anti-itching creams on it(not all at once) and it itches really bad! My nurse said to rub it, but that hurts. What do I do?? I go to the doctor for a check-up next Thursday, May 29. I’m pretty sure it’s a spider bite, it looks like some of these pics on here. Any suggestions?
I might send in some pics of it later. I’m really scared that my arm will end up like some of these peoples fingers and legs where it’s all nasty!!! So yeah, I need to know what to do! It’s getting on my nerves and I don’t want to die!!! lol.
I receive a spider bite about every 2 months. It seems as if they crawl in my mouth when I am sleeping and settle in. My mouth gets swollen and all along my jaw line, on the outside, I break out with little blistery duo bites. I seek medical attention.
Presently I have a double chin my face is so swollen and those red irritated marks along my jaw. I will not go out in public like this. We bomb our home; use an exterminator;and check our dogs extra good when they come in at night (I have seen one get off of my dog in the living room once…that’s all it took to make checking the dogs mandatory).
My 14 year old son is petrified of spiders. He has nightmares, the whole nine yards. The last one I saw bite me was black with white on it’s back and white near the tips of it’s front legs. It wasn’t very large. I often mow our back property and before I start I walk the area I am going to mow and use a stick in front of me to get down any webs.
It is 2a.m. here and I cannot sleep from the pain. Is there anything anyone out there thinks I am missing? I keep closets closed, turn down the beds w/lights on, sleep w/ night lites. Beside the ugly scaring on my face…I’m concerned. My husband only gets one bite a year.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I don’t know if this helps. Every time I go to the doctor they say it is the worst reaction to a spider bite they have ever seen. Your thought on this is greatly appreciated.
I was bitten by a blackish grey spider. It did not have any markings that I was able to see. I’m not sure what kind it was. After I killed it I couldn’t find it to take any pictures of it but I have taken a picture of the bite and have included it below.
This happened Friday morning on May 16 in Oklahoma. The only symptoms I have had are a slight swelling and redness and moderate itching .
I just noticed that my daughter has something on the back of her leg…It has a small black/bluish middle kinda the size of a fat black marker (bigger then a pen mark) The black mark has red around it, kinda swollen,itchy and kinda hard…Does this sound like a spider bite of some kind? Or Tick….Not sure what to do, I’m concerned.
If you’ve been bitten by any spider, SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION. I cannot believe some of you are waiting – you could experience serious effects – even death. My cousin was bitten by a black widow, and came through, thank God, because of quick medical attention. Somehow, she even had the presence of mind to catch the offending creature and bring it to the hospital with her. Please don’t wait if you have serious symptoms…it could mean your life!
hello Racine
i was bitten by a spider three days ago i did not see what bit me but its like what you are describing.
I have a bump on my back, right on the shoulder blade, that might be a spider bite, but I’m not sure about it. I saw it the other night when I was getting ready for bed, but I figured it was just another mosquito bite, because I was in south Florida, but when I woke up, every time I move that arm, or use that muscle, it hurts. I live in Orlando, Florida in a building that is pretty bug free, but I’m just wondering if this could be a spider bite.
i woke up this morning and i couldn’t bend my last finger of left hand…
that i realize that its getting bigger. my husband told me its spider bite…
i m really scared as it look kind off red and swallown … any cure?
Right when I woke up, i had a itch on my leg. I itched and saw that there was a little black spot. I assume I got bit by a spider or something. I squeezed out the black part and now it is slightly swollen and a little red. Doesn’t hurt much. Anything to worry about?
Hello,
After coming out of the shower a couple days ago, I noticed a weird black, circular wound with a red ring around it on my ankle. I hadn’t remembered bumping my foot or anything, and the center part of the tissue was blackened and scabbed – like the tissue had just kinda died or narcotized as shown in the picture below.
It had an unusual appearance, but no pain at all. I suspected it was possibly a spider bite, and after looking at a few images of spider bites on the Web, I concluded that it probably was.
My wife and I did a spider hunt and initially found this guy lurking around – Top spider in the picture below. Then today, I found another (different species?) spider lurking in my bathroom sink – bottom spider in picture below.
To the best of your knowledge, what species of spider would you say these are? And, of course I’m curious as to which one, if either, could be responsible for the bite?
I live in Walker Valley, NY – a somewhat rural upstate area, at a rather high elevation in the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains. I’ve attached a map in the picture above.
Any info will be much appreciated. It’s not a life-or-death situation; I’m mainly just very curious.
Best,
JohnB
My son (2 1/2 yrs old) got bit this past Friday as shown in the picture below.
He did not complain at all until late Saturday evening. Took him to ER and was given antibiotics. Yucky stuff is coming out of it and with warm compresses it makes it ooze. He’s been in lots of pain and has been taking Tylenol for several days in a row.
It would be nice to know what it is to make sure we’re doing the proper thing. Looks like the picture 4 of the small pictures (the one with the nickel) any help would be great.
Hello,
On Tuesday night, I picked up an ice chest that had been sitting in my car port for a while. I opened it up to look inside. I saw a small, black spider with white spots (kinda black with a white frosted look) crawl from the handle area to the inside of the cooler. I didn’t think anything of it. I mashed it and went on.
The next day at work, I had what looked like a small ant bite came up on my right index finger. On Thursday, the finger was a little red. Me and some buddies had plans to go to Tennessee on Friday. By Friday afternoon, the finger was still red and started swelling. A nurse was with us and I had her look at it on Saturday morning. She said it was definitely a spider bite and I needed to get it looked at. We left coming home on Sunday, a day early. On Monday morning I say my doctor.
The finger was red and severely swollen. He did some cutting around the bite area and prescribed some antibiotics. On Tuesday the finger started turning black and the wound was oozing clear liquid. By Wednesday morning, I was in agony. The wound was oozing a solid yellow material and my hand started turning black. I went back to my doctor and he immediately referred me to the hospital. A surgeon looked at it and within one hour I was being prepped for surgery.
He cut my finger from the first knuckle to the second and scraped all the infected tissue out. The wound was packed with gauze because he wanted it to heal from the inside out. The surgeon told me he would be surprised if I got all the motion back in my finger because the infection was so severe. He said he was very close to amputating the finger.
I was in the hospital for four days hooked up to I.V. antibiotics. The dressing on the finger was changed daily. On Sunday I was released from the hospital with a prescription for a super strong antibiotic. Did physical therapy every day for the first week. Then three times a week for the next two. I’m going on my fourth week post-op now.
The wound is almost healed and I have nearly all the mobility in my finger back although it is still swollen.
If you have any idea as to what kind of spider this might have been, please let me know.
Thanks!
Hi,
I’m currently living in Oregon, near Portland and have a spider bite that I’m curious about. At first, about two weeks ago, it appeared to be a bruise because my right thigh had what looked to be a purplish bruise. It was painful at first but now just itches a lot and the bruising has gone away. What I thought was a mole, on the spot of the bruise is actually the spot where it bit me. It looks as if there are two or three darker dots on the spot. Should I be concerned at all? And do you have any idea what sort of spider may have bit me?
Thanks,
Katelyn
Around April 7th I noticed a small spot on the back of my neck that hurt and I thought it was a zit. It continued to swell and become very painful. I just assumed it was some type of spider bite, but didn’t worry about it since I have had them before.
The areas became so swollen and painful that I couldn’t put my head on my pillow at night. The swelling and pain starting to go away after a couple days. During this time I had extreme abdominal pain and nausea for about 3-4 days, but didn’t associate the two at the time.
About 2 weeks after the bite I was rubbing my neck and noticed I had a bald spot near the site of the bite. In the last two weeks the spot has grown significantly. The bald spot is completely smooth, no signs of new hair growth and it about an inch in diameter.
Could this have been a black widow? Any ideas?
I was driving 72 hours ago in my car and started to feel funny, funny taste in my mouth, light headed, felt like my face was swelling, and my airway was closing off. I started to shake. I am a nurse, and had no idea what was happening, I drove myself into emergency, and was their for 6 hours. They did two sets of tests cardiac and 2 ecg’s no changes.
With some O2 I was okay and they gave me an epi pen and told me to see my Doctor. I thought at one point I was going to die. I also have had a rash since visiting Costa Rica in Nov 07, it comes and goes.
Post episode, within 12 hours I noticed a lump under my chin, like a big pimple it was itchy at first, but now it is just hard, I would say it is 3cm circular. I will making an appointment for an allergist, but in the meantime one of the nurses in my office thought it might be a spider bite.
The lump in under the right side of my chin, and now I am experiencing a funny sensation in my right ear as if it is blocked….. Any comments or suggestions…. many thanks
My husband was bit by something on Easter of this year. It started out looking like a small bug bite that was itchy, but over the last six weeks it has grown. The original spot is now the size of a silver dollar and has hard lumps, then surrounding it is many red pimple looking lumps. He has been on antibiotics and creams from the dr but nothing is helping.
Any suggestion’s would be greatly appreciated
hello,
i think i might have been bitten by a spider 4 days ago, or my roommates think so. i was at a music festival at a polo field in the desert near Palm Springs, CA and i noticed a bump on the side of my forearm that didn’t hurt or itch.
Oer the past four days it’s started to hurt a little more (at first only when i poked it) but now when I’m using my arm a lot it hurts as well. it’s not red or discolored in anyway and it has not really grown much in size from the first day (it’s been about a centimeter in diameter the whole time).
It’s not like a typical bug bite where there is a distinct spot, but looks more like a tumor that is under the skin (it is a gradual raise up). it’s very hard under the skin and getting a little hard in the area very close to it.
does this even sound like a spider bite? is it serious? I’ve been feeling sort of nauseous and not hungry, but it might be related to a medication i started yesterday. please let me know if i should see a doctor or do anything besides wait for it to heal itself.
Thank you!
Reply to #6 and #7. It sounds like chiggers or bed bugs…
hello i am from around the quincy, ill area. i just noticed today around 10 in the morning that my index finger had a red spot then a little later it has this white spot kinda looked like a pimple or something so i squeezed it and it just hurt more.
I went to the nurse at my school, she doesn’t know what it was for sure, but my friend got bit by a spider and it looked like this at first. well now its been about 7 hours since i noticed this mark, it is a bit bigger but not to big, and it is red around this like blister it looks like and it is white.
I have been having pain through my whole hand too. the white isn’t very big at all. it isn’t even a centimeter in diameter, but i have no clue what i got bit by, if a spider bit. please let me know anything to help. I am really freaked out!!!
HI…a friend of mine had a glass of water by the bed with a straw and he sipped it and felt something bite his tongue…it was a spider…the whole day, he had stomach spasms…is that normal? and what kind of spider would do that? thanks.
Hello,
I have included a picture shown below:
This spider bite is on the finger of my 5 yr old daughter, she was bitten at about 8pm 22/04/08 by want i can only assume was a black house spider but obviously i could be wrong.
Her spirits and behavior were fine no fever, sweating or vomiting only pain in her finger where she was bitten. Took her to our GP next morning who prescribed IALEX 5ml 3 times per.
My question is that the the bubble that formed an hour after she was bitten keeps growing in size following the length of her finger. When she woke up this morning it was longer protruding further from her finger and filled with white looking stuff.
It looks like a big blister like when u burn yourself but instead of the liquid being clear it is white/yellowish. Any info would be greatly appreciated as I’m concerned this blister thing will keep growing in size.
Should i get a 2nd medical opinion? Thank you for your time and consideration.
Regards Jay.
I live in San Diego and I got bit by a spider on my calf back in February, it did not hurt at first. It was just a small hard purplish colored bump , it did not itch or hurt. But a few days ago it started burning, it turned red and it HURTS! I have included a picture below:
It has become much larger and I have no idea what to do, nothing is helping… any help? I don’t even know what kind of spider bit me, right now I am not sure what it is?
Does this sound familiar? Months without pain or redness and then all of sudden OUCH!
I live in Winder Georgia and i spent the night with my friend and we were out side a lot and we spent the night in a camper and my leg was starting to itch but there was no mark except for a bump so i just thought it was a mosquito bite.
When I woke up my friend said Olivia look at your ankle so i did and my leg was puffy and red and there is a red bump in the middle of it. It’s really big, swollen and red but I didn’t feel anything bite me and it doesn’t hurt at all.
I have a dual-pronged spider bite, one of the two is slightly larger, they’re about a centimeter apart. I’m pretty sure it’s a spider bite, and i did see what I believed to be a brown recluse in my room (of course I smashed it to bits). The larger of the two bumps throbs with pain every now and then.
6:15am: Alright, I?m having some new symptoms, my heartbeat and pulse are erratic, I shiver / twitch every now and then (rather frequently). I?m dreadfully nervous, and a RESPONSE would be greatly appreciated! I?m begging anyone!
i live in California and i was up in the canyons last night and i felt something sting the bottom of my leg. I knew i had got bitten by something. this morning i woke up and my leg is in SO much pain.
It’s not swollen or anything it just still feels like a very intense stinging pain. the area has about 7 little red dots like i got bit a couple times. what could this be???
It’s kinda freaking me out!
Please help, thanx
I got bit in five places on my arm, two of the bite areas became red, swollen and hot to the touch. In the morning the bite was large and red but as the day continued, the redness spread around my whole arm and it was very hard and warm to the touch. Surprisingly it didn’t hurt though.
I went to the doctor who said I have cellulitis and gave me three injections, an antibiotic, a pain reliever, and an anti inflammatory. I was also prescribed prednisone and ibuprofen. So I stopped sleeping in my bed for awhile and when I returned got bit again, twice on the arm and once on the neck.
These bites too became red and swollen however they weren’t hard or warm. I’ve been taking antibiotics prescribed to me after having dental work done as I read on the internet most insect bites are treated with antibiotics. I found a large, brown spider in the kitchen sink this morning, it was not a recluse but I’m sure its the culprit.
Not sure what bit me. I took a photo from my cell phone because it was the closest will try to post photos.
I woke up with a 1 inch by .5 inch bump on my elbow
2-3 days later, my elbow, forearm and upper arm were itching
4-5 days later, the bite itself broke and started oozing a clear liquid that would harden. There was no bleeding of any kind, but itching resumed.
9-10 days later (now), the bite seems to be healing, but there was never any bleeding and no scab seems to be forming. The itching is still present, but of less intensity.
What should I do? I am from northern california, lower SF bay area, and have never experienced anything like this before. Any help is appreciated1
thought I would share pictures of my son’s spider bite with everyone. The healing process is still ongoing.
It all started when he stuck his hand inside a shoe that he hadn’t worn in a while, it was in his closet, and that’s how he got bit. The first 2 pictures, are within 1-2 days. He knew he got bit, but not right away, because of the swelling and the white pimply looking spot.
The second picture was taken on the 3rd day and still not
treatment. Urgent Care saw him on the second day and did nothing.
The emergency room and JMH in Festus, MO saw him on the 4th day and did nothing. The 3rd and 4th pictures where on the 4th day and were taken while he was at a different hospital ER.
The hole was to the bone by this time and the plastic surgeon stuck surgical scissors in the hole and scrapped out some of the infection and packed it with gauze! That’s what is sticking out of the hole.
The last two pictures were taken yesterday, which was about the 8th or 9th day. It is healing, but still very serious. He has been on antibiotics since last Thursday, the 3rd of April and the bite happened on the 28th of March. He is going to see the plastic surgeon today. There is still a lot of infection in the wound, but it is draining.
Barb
I haven’t seen any posted questions about OLD bite trauma. I can try to get someone to help me upload a photo. I live in Columbia, SC. Near the end of March 2007 I was barefooted, seated at the computer, when I became aware of the top of a toe itching furiously.
That’s all it did for about two weeks: ITCH! I expected it to disappear gradually. Instead, as the itching diminished, a whitish spot appeared under the skin. It began to look like I had a tiny pearl on the toe, deep under the skin.
I saw a podiatrist last July and I pointed out the bump. He inspected it, said he’d never seen anything like it, looked intently at the x-rays again, said the bump is only skin deep and said I should see a dermatologist. He looked relieved! The center of the orb is now darker than the surrounding skin, is as hard as a rock, and doesn’t bother me at all except when I press on it.
I plan to have a dermatologist remove it when the weather’s warm enough for me to wear sandals all day. Have you ever heard of such a bite or seen one? Thanks!