<p>^ I am sorry, but you are incorrect. A lady in our area just died recently from a brown recluse bite. If not treated, a recluse bite can eventually lead to death. So start worrting, guys.</p>
<p>i heard that's just an allergic reaction to the sipder bite....</p>
<p>wait so u dont turn into spiderman if bitten by a spider? effff, that sux</p>
<p>Justinian,</p>
<p>Not true. In many cases, when there's a necrotic wound, doctors will say "brown recluse" even if it's not verified. </p>
<p>So I guess I should be more clear: no verified brown recluse bite deaths.</p>
<p><a href="http://spiders.ucr.edu/necrotic.html%5B/url%5D">http://spiders.ucr.edu/necrotic.html</a>
<a href="http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html%5B/url%5D">http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html</a></p>
<p>Oh my jeepers... I looked on Wikipedia and followed some links to more pictures. Fascinating... but now I'm frickin' paranoid and I can't go to sleep! Recluses are in Texas, and I can't sleep. Before I was on the lookout for lice and bedbugs, but now it's recluses, and now I want to slap the OP for making me live a life of fear...</p>
<p>Did you not read any of the links I provided?</p>
<p>They're all myths, I swear... And I'm allergic to A LOT OF THINGS (ie. Milk, chocolate, chicken, eggs, strawberries). I look like a monster with mosquito bites. Imagine what I'd look like with a recluse bite! Mommeeee!!!!</p>
<p>...sigh.</p>
<p>Fine, live in fear. :p</p>
<p>Disgusting</p>
<p>That picture is fake. The spider isn't even a brown recluse--on a recluse the "guitar" marking is whiter. Also, while the bite causes lesions, it doesn't make the entire finger rot away, lol. </p>
<p>I think that type of wound is caused more by allergic reactions to hobo spider bites, and only a tiny percentage of the population is allergic to them. Chances are you've been bitten by a hobo spider at least once.</p>
<p>No no it's not fake, it's true, alright look at this [url=<a href="http://www.highway60.com/mark/brs/linda_bite.htm%5Dcase%5B/url">http://www.highway60.com/mark/brs/linda_bite.htm]case[/url</a>] I mentioned earlier. . . just 5 days later, look what it became . . </p>
<p>SCAR DID NOT COMPLETELY GO AWAY UNTIL 3 YEARS later
!!!</p>
<p>Maybe it's possible that it wasn't that bad until the doctor cut thru the infected skin, and all of that decaying was underneath
Sorry, didn't mean to make anyone scared, but it's REAL and could happen to any of us. Actually I knew diseases/bites could get really bad, I was more interested that there is no effective antibiotic for the venemous bite . .</p>
<p>At a couple of my summer camps I've been to, people have been bitten by brown recluses and black widows....most of them see it happen and go straight to medical...but one kid didnt and later on down the week was rushed to the hosptial.</p>
<p>I can believe the pic, if he didnt go to the doc right away, if you dont get any treatment for a recluse bite, they get naaassstttyyy. lol
But that picture at the top could be a brown recluse, some guy at camp one year managed to catch one and the 'violin' is on the bottom side. The pic only shows the top.</p>
<p>Its very hard to diagnose a spider bite from something very poisonous like a recluse or a black widow, because of the tissue damage done. The only way you really KNOW a recluse did it, is if you've seen it happen, and usually by then you've been to the doc and are on some **** for it.</p>
<p>I find it ironic that on Spider Man 1, the spider that bites Peter Parker looks similar to a Black Widow. But who knows, perhaps me eyes were deceiving me.</p>
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<p>90% of recluse bites lead to NOTHING.</p>
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<p>Widow bites don't cause necrosis of tissue. Widow venom is a neurotoxin, and causes painful contractions of muscular tissue. In fact, the antivenin is more likely to cause tissue damage than the toxin itself.</p>
<p>And again, read this:</p>
<p><a href="http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html%5B/url%5D">http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html</a></p>
<p>Unless you are living in the Midwest, you have NO REASON to be worried about the brown recluse. And if you are in the Midwest, you probably aren't worrying about them, since they're so common.</p>
<p>here is another link to CORRECTLY identify a recluse spider...
<a href="http://spiders.ucr.edu/recluseid.html%5B/url%5D">http://spiders.ucr.edu/recluseid.html</a></p>
<p>and : "The spider that poses the greatest health threat to humans in California is the black widow spider, Latrodectus hesperus. Before antivenom was available, bites from these spiders caused death in about 5% of the cases. Currently there are adequate medical treatments; deaths from black widow bites are virtually NON-EXISTENT." (<a href="http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html%5B/url%5D">http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html</a>)</p>