Spider bite

*Grace* · 11-06-2002, 04:03 PM

I just got bit by a brown recluse on the foot. Do I need to call my doctor since I am pregnant? Or can I just deal with this myself? Thanks.

Jen · 11-06-2002, 04:12 PM

I am no nurse but here are my

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I got bit by one about 3 years ago (on my face!) and did not go to the doctor til a day or so later. By that time, my cheek had turned black and was very very nasty looking! I was given some creme to put on it (and I believe a shot) and it *finally* healed.

Here is a web site that I found--it is from arizona but I believe that a brown recluse is a brown recluse.

http://ag.arizona.edu/urbanipm/spide...sespiders.html

Jen · 11-06-2002, 04:15 PM

Here is one more---

Brown Recluse

Liz&NicksMom · 11-06-2002, 04:23 PM

You might just want to call the Dr's office just to be on the safe side. It is always better to be safe than to be sorry

*Grace* · 11-06-2002, 04:23 PM

Thanks, Jen. I guess I am doing the right thing. I have it on ice.

Ouchywoo · 11-06-2002, 05:00 PM

Don't have brown recluse's in

but I'm sure you treat a bite like any other, with antihistamine. I'd go to the drug store, wouldn't bother going to a doc unless you were hallucinating and/or getting a severe headache

*Grace* · 11-06-2002, 06:05 PM

Thanks, Genie. I am not allergic to spider bites. Steve had some topical poison remover for stings and poison ivy that I used. It is no longer stinging. From what I read on the pages Jen sent, it's just a localized poison unless it gets it really bad and i get a fever or something. I am blessed in that I am not allergic to stings and bites from insects.