What kind of bite is this?

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hung-solo

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i was at my older cousin's house yesterday to chat and he showed me his arm. told me that it must have happened over night. the shiny stuff is medicine. he the kind of guy that doesnt go to the doc. he said possible spider bites but he is not sure. there are more on the back of his arm.

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I'm not sure, but they are nasty looking. The area of red inflammation around each bite isn't a good sign either. He'd best get to a doctor and have them checked out, especially if the red areas get bigger. The shiny stuff must be antibiotic ointment, but in that situation, it really isn't going to do much.
 
he still wont go unless his arm starts to fall off.. the main reason is that he is not insured. personally i hope he doesnt go to the doc unless death is coming. we are just trying to figure out what kind of bites these are. we only have 2 spiders in NC that are poisonous -- black widows and brown recluses. thats it. the others just bite and it pisses you off and hurts like a mo fo.
 
If they are Brown Recluse bites or even Black Widow bites then the guy needs to see a doc. He didn't feel himself getting bit?
 
dttomcat said:
If they are Brown Recluse bites or even Black Widow bites then the guy needs to see a doc. He didn't feel himself getting bit?
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he was asleep. i doubt they are black widow but the recluse is a possibility. his house is back in the woods and to be honest, not very clean..how long does it take for the venom of the widow or recluse start to be very noticable?
 
Dude, my ex-GF's brother got bit by a widow on the back of his hand while camping and ended up admitted to the hospital for almost a week IIRC. Recluse is worse IMO. If he did get bit by a recluse that many times he could easily lose his arm. Tell him to go to one of those convenient medical clinics if in doubt. Any change in color around the bites (necrosis) or toxic striations (red stripes up and down the arm mean seek medical attention ASAP. A little bullseye around the bites is also a bad sign (maybe tick bites) but usually with a tick it is only a single bite.
 
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dttomcat said:
Dude, my ex-GF's brother got bit by a widow on the back of his hand while camping and ended up admitted to the hospital for almost a week IIRC. Recluse is worse IMO. If he did get bit by a recluse that many times he could easily lose his arm. Tell him to go to one of those convenient medical clinics if in doubt. Any change in color around the bites or toxic striations (red stripes up and down the arm mean seek medical attention ASAP. A little bullseye around the bites is also a bad sign (maybe tick bites) but usually with a tick it is only a single bite.
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yeah i told him if it gets worse he will have to go. i was reading up on widow bites and he would have known soon after something was not right. he felt fine yesterday. i was looking at flea bites as well. surprisingly it could be that. just a more worst case scenerio but my guess is spider. whatever it was it got him good.
 
to me they look like fire ant bites. they very often form a postule like that. spider bites look more like a red bulls eye and are very serious as the brown recluse rots the area around the bite. they say not to pop the postule and just keep it clean and it should go away, but I err on the side of caution and would seek a medical opinion or at the least go on line and do a search to see pictures of the various bites and stings, good luck, Andy.
 
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to me they look like fire ant bites. they very often form a postule like that. spider bites look more like a red bulls eye and are very serious as the brown recluse rots the area around the bite. they say not to pop the postule and just keep it clean and it should go away, but I err on the side of caution and would seek a medical opinion or at the least go on line and do a search to see pictures of the various bites and stings, good luck, Andy.
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i looked that up as well but in our area of NC supposedly they are not around. we have red ants but those are not the fire ants.
 
hung-solo said:
i looked that up as well but in our area of NC supposedly they are not around. we have red ants but those are not the fire ants.
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Hung-Solo, we are not supposed to have puma's around here in Ohio either, but there have been two caught in the last 5 years. I'm with everyone else, he needs to go see a doctor, or at least like dttomcat says, one of the 24-hr. clinics that are everywhere now. Those look like nothing to be messing with. Good luck & I hope it all turns out ok with him.
Be safe.
 
Could definitely be brown recluse. About the same size, and looks just like bites that I posted this about last August:
OwenM said:
Got some kind of mystery bites several weeks ago, though. Made holes up to 1/4" wide(though usually less), and about the same depth as the width. The skin gets inflamed around it, and it looks like the skin right there in the bite shrivels up, so you have to dig out this wad of black stuff with goo around it that's still attached to the meat, but it doesn't bleed.
The biggest one had me afraid I'd been bitten by a brown recluse at first.
Suppose it could be from ticks whose heads got left in there, and not bites at all, but I don't know:confused:
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I had gotten a bunch of ticks in me around that time, and thought it might be an infection from tick heads being left in the skin. My neighbor, a long time nurse who was also in med school, told me they were definitely some kind of "necrotizing" bite, and probably from a brown recluse.
Left holes in my ankle and calf that you could stick a pencil eraser in, but eventually healed, and there is scar tissue where the holes were. Very nice.
 
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Hung-Solo, we are not supposed to have puma's around here in Ohio either, but there have been two caught in the last 5 years. I'm with everyone else, he needs to go see a doctor, or at least like dttomcat says, one of the 24-hr. clinics that are everywhere now. Those look like nothing to be messing with. Good luck & I hope it all turns out ok with him.
Be safe.
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the difference in ants and pumas is that pumas were originally here. fire ants were not. the eastern mtn lion is now officially on the extinct list.
 
OwenM said:
Could definitely be brown recluse. About the same size, and looks just like bites that I posted this about last August:

I had gotten a bunch of ticks in me around that time, and thought it might be an infection from tick heads being left in the skin. My neighbor, a long time nurse who was also in med school, told me they were definitely some kind of "necrotizing" bite, and probably from a brown recluse.
Left holes in my ankle and calf that you could stick a pencil eraser in, but eventually healed, and there is scar tissue where the holes were. Very nice.
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from a recluse? there are different kinds of recluses in America. the brown just happens to be the most poisonous. you sure it was a brown that bit you and not another breed of recluse? the only reason why i am asking is bc according to the pics from browns your ankle should have fallen off lol..


btw thanks a ton for the replies:D
 
That IS a spider bite. If he's not dead yet from an alergic reaction, he should be ok.
 
softrockrenegade said:
Looks like a staph infection to me . He should go to the doctor.
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could a bite lead to a staph infection?

he said the other day (day before yesterday) he felt some itching under his watch so he took it off to scratch it... the next day those bumps were there. he said he did not bother them that much to cause that kind of sore to pop up. he said they hurt at first (sore to the touch) but now they are fine. just ugly. this guy wont go to the doc until he gets pretty damn sick. he is that hard headed. nothing i can do.
 
glockman99 said:
That IS a spider bite. If he's not dead yet from an alergic reaction, he should be ok.
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lol thats what he said... curious of what kind of spider... also i was under the impression that most if not all spider bites have a halo around them. he doesnt have one. the spider bites i have had in the past all had halos around them.
 
Looks like one I had a few years ago from a brown recluse.
Who me, go to a doc from a bug bite. Na that was not going to happen.

(At least not until the tissue around the bite got necrotic and I had red marks all over the top portion of my body.) They had me on semi strong 'roids for over a month before the bite started healing. No way was mine going to heal on it's own. If that tissue starts showing necrotic signs he needs to go right away, if not now.

Tell cous to get his ass over there now. He will have a much shorter heal and less tissue damage.
 
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Is he still alive?

What ever those are, they look bad. They look like small pocks, or something. Does he have an alergy to poison ivy?
 
Tell him if he doesn't want to go see a doctor that's ok!! You have a sure fire cure for poisonous spider bites! A red hot poker does wonders for em!!!
 
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