Is this a brown recluse bite?
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usually brown recluse bites get very red & blistered but if you don't feel well, you may have been bitten by some other spider or bug that made you sick & should go to the doctor-- antibiotics often treat bites well.
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A Brown Recluse bite eats away at your flesh. This not seem like that. If you start feeling sicker you should see a doctor.
Brown recluse spider bites often go unnoticed initially because they are usually painless bites. Occasionally, some minor burning that feels like a bee is noticed at the time of the bite. Symptoms usually develop two to eight hours after a bite. Keep in mind that most bites cause little tissue destruction.
Victims may experience these symptoms:
Severe pain at bite site after about four hours
Severe itching
Nausea
Vomiting
Fever
Myalgias (muscle pain)
Initially the bite site is mildly red and upon close inspection may reveal fang marks. Most commonly, the bite site will become firm and heal with little scaring over the next few days or weeks. Occasionally, the local reaction will be more severe with erythema and blistering, sometimes leading to a blue discoloration ultimately leading to a necrotic lesion and scaring.
Blistering (common)
Necrosis (death) of skin and subcutaneous fat (less common)
Severe destructive necrotic lesions with deep wide borders (rare)
Doesn't sound like a brown recluse; large areas of skin and flesh start looking bad.
I have seen two people with brown recluse bites and it doesn't sound like you have the same thing they had.
Please go a doctor, though. It may have been some other kind of spider.
You should see a Doctor to be on the safe side because if it was a brown Recluse the bite where the spider bit you then the skin would be rotting away. You should get it checked out.
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