How can I tell the difference between a spider bite and a mosquito bite?
Question:
Yesterday I realized that they could be spider bites, because I have found spiders in the bed I sleep in at my parents'
Today I noticed that two of the bites have what I can only describe as holes. It's a single hole in each bite, and the bites are big and red. 2 of them seem to me bigger then the average mosquito bite, but maybe I'm just being paranoid
also, I dont remember having mosquito bite itch this long and this much.
Are there any over-the counter things I can do? I really dont want to go to the doctor...
Answers:
I live on the gulf coast of Texas, so I know a thing or two about mosquitoes and spiders. First all spiders are poisonous. Some just don't affect humans the way they do their prey. A mosquito bite will be red with a raised bump in the middle. If you don't scratch the bite too much the skin should not be broken. I don't ever recall ever seeing a hole in the skin from a mosquito bite. It is possible to have mosquitoes in the house without realizing it. They could have come in on someone or followed them into the house. They are small and if there aren't a lot of them, they are sometimes hard to see.
I am not very allergic to them and so I don't itch or swell very much. But my son is and he will get a hive about three inches from one bite and he itches very badly with them. I will open up a benadryl capsule and make a paste out of it with water, it seems to help with both the itching and the swelling.
If the bite in the picture looks like your bite and you are still having symptoms, go see your doctor. Mosquito bites shouldn't itch for more than a couple of days and there should never be an open spot unless you have scratched it so much as to have broken the skin and caused an infection.
Either way, spider bite, you did say that you woke up with spiders in the bed, or infected mosquito bite, you need to see a doctor to have appropriate care. My daughter receive a spider bite on her lower back once. We did not realize that she had been bitten until she started running a fever and vomiting. She ended up with an area of about a half an inch rotted out of her back before it was all over. Spider bites are nothing to fool around with.
Just a little added trivia: It is the female mosquitoes that bite. If you let the mosquito drink its fill and don't hit it, the bite is supposed to not itch as badly if any at all.
Good luck
They are probably spider bites. mosquito bites don't turn into holes. My ex told me that spider bites turn black in the middle though.......
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