5-Year-Old Killed By Spider Bite

[RyanJayG]

my sister was bitten by a Brown Recluse back when she was in middle school... she was sick for a while, and had a nasty looking almost rotten area of skin around the bite. she still has a scar (although very small) to this day

 

[Natey]

When I got bit it was on the back of my leg, in the crook of my knee. Three years later, the thing still looks like a really old zit that never quite healed, and about once a year it gets all infected again and I have to Neosporin the crap out of it.

My wetsuit seems to aggravate it, too.

 

[REMillers]

That is sad and indeed most people do not really die from the bites. But really knowing what to look for in this spider is not a exact science, most doctors aren't preped to see the signs.

Think about it you can work on a car right? But can you spot and fix trouble signs on all types and makes?
To some degree this holds true in humans, doctors aren't miracle workers and they can't always plan for every possible senario. This often gets tricky to when you start talking about what area, what doctor they went to (was it their family doctor? or a hospital?).

Vets and medical doctors are completely seperate and it is not easy to compare one misjudgement from a vet to a misjudgement from a doctor.

There are times when they do make gross errors, like with my aunt who was not given a heart stress test before gall-bladder surgery. The doctor felt it wasn't needed or something...hmm not needed for a overweight, highly diebatic, heart disease history. As a result she had 4 heart attacks on the table, in a coma for 2 months, is barely functionable and not expect to live much longer as the stress of it is shutting her body down.

 

[Wiggles6983]

spider bites sucks, when i was about 2 or 3 i got bit on the top of my head by a spider on a camping trip and my face was swolen for about 2 weeks. never found our what kind of spider. since then i've been bitten about 2 more time in my life by spiders never had a reaction like the first though.

 

[mp3girly]

Vets and medical doctors are completely seperate and it is not easy to compare one misjudgement from a vet to a misjudgement from a doctor.

Only in that vets are usually fueled more by money than anything else, and don't care so much about mistakes. The emotional factor is not so different.

 

[laracroft]

i've been bitten twice and now carry and epinephrine pen because of that and my allergy to hornets. i used to be a boy scout and for the past few summers i have worked at a camp in the woods. as a boy scout we went camping and a bear got into out stuff and disturbed an in ground hornets nest. well that night while playing flashlight tag, i fell in it and was stung 43 times. was given epinephrine by my scoutmaster and rushed to the hospital. i almost died of suffocation from the body just swelling up.

the spider bites occurred about 2 years ago at the summer camp. was yelling at my campers to go back to bed one morning before wakeup and i felt a sharp pain followed by a burning sensation on my foot. thought it was one of the kids pokin me with pine straw or something until it started burning really bad. limped to the nurses hut and was taken to the hospital. the next summer it happened again but in the middle of the night. was bitten on the left side of my stomach. for some reason i didn't feel it till about 45 minutes after i was bitten cuz when i finally felt the pain it has already started to eat the cells around the bite and the skin was turning black. was really gross looking. was again rushed to the hospital and now i have about 6 epi pens stratigically placed so if i'm out or at a relatives house i have one. also keep one in my car at all times. really sucks knowing that one little spider and the smallest hornet sting could kill me. anyways, i'll stop blathering

Have you seen that movie Pure Luck with Martin Short? If not, you need to. lol And have you ever MAYBE considered dropping the boy scouts or at least NOT going outdoors............possibly not for the rest of your life???? That sucks, sorry to hear about your 'run ins'.