This was day 3 after a spider bite.
and its not me.

Bear with me please.

try again

Right this is day 10 there's other pictures but i'll cut to the chase you 'll get the idea. Don't no what happened in the end .

That almost made me sick:puke

:puke

i've seen those before...if i remember correctly, it was the bite of a brown recluse spider

Well thats a good reason to kill the little bastards.

This was caused by the " Brown Recluse or Fiddleback - Loxosceles reclusa " A fairly harmless spider until it bites you. Fortunately this affliction only affects 10% of its victims.



Fortunately for us it live in the mid-western states of the United States like Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. It is not aggressive.

"The spider's venom contains an enzyme that destroys cell membranes in the wound area with affected tissue gradually sloughing away, exposing underlying tissues. Within 24 hours, the bite site can erupt into a 'volcano lesion'" This specific reaction is called loxoscelism.


You can read more about it here. http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html 

Fortunately we dont miss out as we have our own called the White Tail or Lampona sp. and another around Adelaide called the Loxosceles rufescens.

[Above] -Lampona sp. is an urban spider found in most parts of Australia it also uses Necrotising Arachnidism . The have a cylindrical body with either white or Grey on the tail. Blister and redness is the most common side effect and few bites result in ulceration but when this occurs little can be done to prevent it.

"The majority of alleged cases of necrotising arachnidism in Australia are based on circumstantial evidence at best."

Their are sevel species of White tail and it is not know why the skin reacts the way it does. Most healthy people will suffer slight skin irritation and then some will uncerate and suffer continious on going illness. Black widow, black house spider and wolf spiders are also suspected of necrotising arachnidism. This last image is of a suspected wolf spider bite onto a forearm.



I love being a social / physical scientist - you can imagine how interesing my lessons get. We just finished an introduction of WWII for history - how interesting was that for the kiddies from a volkswagenist point of view!

[Edited on 8-7-2003 by The_Bronze.]

Well, bronze I am impressed:thumb:thumb:thumb

I aim to please

Their are heaps of web pages but the best and easiest to read for the layman is this one -

http://www.avru.unimelb.edu.au/avruweb/wtspage.htm 

if you really really want to be grossed out go have a look at

www.rotten.com

Some of the photos are really foul so beware, some are plain classics.

That site is not for the squeemish and don't go there before sleeping.

I'll advise you not to post their pictures on this forum as if people want to see them they can open a browser. My wife want to be a forensic photographer so she is regulary at rotten.com. Their are some really funny pics their two. Look at it for long enough and you start to feel a bit depraved yourself.

After being bitten in both foot then hand by a redback in February the ambos told me that the infections from the spider bites is actually more dangerous than the invenomation. (I didn't get any infection - heaps of antibiotics while in hospital - bu the pain from a redback bite lasts months!)

Even a lowly huntsman can do enormous damage if the wound isn't cleaned properly and anti-biotics used if necesasry.

Yeah, It's actually the bacteria that clings to the spider that often cause such bad wounds. That's also why the severity of bites will differ between people.
Some pretty pictures there though, I can't even imagine how damn much that would hurt! I'm sure you could do some pretty cool party tricks with it though.........:repuke

"Ya call that a scar lad - here - This is a scar!"

YUUUUUCK:puke:repuke