RE: SPIDER BITES
From: "Patrick Orr" <PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com>
We have the brown recluse spiders out here in AZ too. The skin around the
bite keeps dying away. I had one bite me on the back once, and later on
while trying to scratch away the itch around the bite, the dead skin around
it dislodged and came clean away with my fingers - along with a lot of gross
liquid stuff.
Although I went to the doctor and got stuff to put on it, my neighbor told
me of a perfect remedy that worked for her. She said she took a fresh leaf
off of an aloe vera plant and smeared the jell from it on the wound. She
did this several times a day with part of a FRESH leaf each time (aloe
medicine apparently dies a few hours after being harvested), and the wound
healed without leaving a scar.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Gmbeasle@aol.com>
To: <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT: Spiders
> From: Gmbeasle@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 10/01/1999 12:14:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> erni@midwest.net writes:
>
> >
> > We in the Midwest have some nasty little anti-social critters called
Brown
> > Recluse Spiders. Their bite is highly poisonous if you happen to
invade
> > their hidey holes while cleaning or searching through areas that are
seldom
> > disturbed.
>
> It also wastes away the flesh I think. We have them here in the east
too.
>
> > We also
> > have harmless (?) field spiders that grow huge and weave humongous webs
and
> > glare at me through beady little eyes.
>
> I've been bitten by a big field spider, and it took a long time to heal.
At
> least I think it was a field spider - it fell out of a cedar tree down my
> back when I was mowing the lawn. It bit me when I went to get the itchy
bits
> of cedar out of my pants and inadvertently got the spider trapped under my
> watch band.
>
> So almost any spider can bite and the bites are painful. I didn't think
that
> the harvesters had a big enough mouth to actually bite anyone though.
>
> RosalieAnn in southern Maryland (daughter of Rosalie Figge)
>
> >
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