What will happen if you don't get a spider bite treated?
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Examples of problems that are more serious include:\n\nA severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). Severe allergic reactions are not common but can be life-threatening and require emergency care. Signs or symptoms may include: \nShock, which may occur if the circulatory system cannot get enough blood to the vital organs.\nCoughing, wheezing, difficulty breathing, or feeling of fullness in the mouth or throat.\nSwelling of the lips, tongue, ears, eyelids, palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and mucous membranes (angioedema).\nLightheadedness and confusion.\nNausea, diarrhea, and stomach cramps.\nHives and reddening of the skin. These symptoms often occur with other symptoms of a severe reaction.\nA toxic reaction to a single sting or bite. Spiders or insects that may cause this include: \nBlack widow spider.\nBrown recluse spider.\nHobo spider.\nScorpion.\nPuss caterpillar (woolly slug).\nA toxic reaction to multiple stings or bites from a bee, wasp, or fire ant. \nA bee leaves it stinger behind and then dies after stinging. Africanized honeybees, the so-called killer bees, are more aggressive than common honeybees and often attack together in great numbers.\nWasps, including hornets and yellow jackets, can sting over and over. Yellow jackets cause the greatest number of allergic reactions.\nA fire ant attaches to a person by biting with its jaws, then, pivoting its head it stings from its abdomen in a circular pattern at multiple sites.\nA large skin reaction at the site of the bite or sting. \nA skin infection at the site of the bite or sting. \nSerum sickness, a reaction to the medications (antiserum) used to treat a bite or sting. Serum sickness may cause hives and flu-like symptoms 7 to 14 days after the use of antiserum. \nA virus infection. Infected mosquitoes can spread the West Nile virus to people, causing an inflammation of the brain (encephalitis). For more information, see the topic West Nile Virus. \nA parasite infection. Infected mosquitoes can spread malaria. For more information, see the topic Malaria.
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Everyone who is bit will have a reaction in some way.  I had a mild bite but was still painful.  I did not have any skin deterioration to speak of but the pain was intense for a few days.  Antibiotics are recommended asap.  I waited a week and should have gone to the doctor sooner than that.
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Dear Lord I am scared of spiders and ticks.  I had a cousin that got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite when I was little.  I've been scared of anything with a bunch of legs that looks spider like since then.  I couldn't get in the shower the other day because a spider was in it.  I was late to work because I couldn't get it to wash down the drain.  Sad, but true.
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My friend die from a spider bite. Go see a doctor. Don t stay !!!
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it might be a brown recluse spider bite.  keep a watch on it.  if it continues to get infected you will have to go to the doctor.  let someone older look at it please.
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The doctor told me all spider bites are dangerous, stapf infcetions and such.  You need to get in to see a doctor.  You need antibiotics.  I was bit by a brown recluse and it not any fun.  I have taken care of them at home, but it takes longer to get over them.  I did what the doctor did, I lanced it and kept neosporin on it.  You really do need antibiotics though to get ove it faster.
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Bite me................ Or bite you \n\ncause thats what the spider will do
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No. A infected tick has to bite you.
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If it's not treated, you can bleed to death or die from infection.
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if you don't get it treated you will have very serious consequences that will eventually be fatal
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A spider bite can turn out to be very, very serious.  I got bit and it started doing what is happening to you and next thing you know I have a huge 6 inch red area around it, itchy and hot and painful (heat by the way is a sign of infection!) so don't ignore it as it can get into your bloodstream very quickly and make you extremely and even FATALLY ill.\n\nSo go to the doctor immediately.  You need antibiotics and a cream will help the itch.  DO NOT SCRATCH IT..you will only help it spread...do not pick at the bite if there is a scab you will only help spread the STAPH infection that is in there.  \n\nSpiders are venomous and their bit often contains the staph bacteria or the bacteria can find it's way in by you scratching the bite, especially since you tend to use your feet to do so if it's on your shin.  That is what happened to me and I had to wear an IV around the house for 6 days with a nurse coming to change it every day.  That is how serious it is.  Oral antibiotics were not potent enough.  I felt very weak and "odd" the whole time too.  My whole leg swelled from the knee down and all this happened within 3 days so do not wait.
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sounds like a spider to me I'd call the doctor first and he can tell you like if it is severe enough to go to the doc. If it was like a brown recluse then she will definately need to go. My husbands little cousin had the same thing happen to her and they had to cut out the infection. So just keep an eye on it and I'm sure your little one will be fine.\n\nAnd you are not a bad mother, it really makes me mad when people say stuff like that on here. If you were a bad mother you wouldn't be asking anyone, so you just keep doing what you are doing honey and forgot all those other people who are acting like kids on here.
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Why would you seek answers from here?  This is definitely a condition requiring immediate medical attention.  Infections can lead to multi-system infections.  If it is severe and left untreated, it could lead to the loss of your foot, infection in your blood stream, need I go on?  If insurance or finances are an issue, go to the ER of your local hospital, they can direct you to services for medical assistance to pay the bill.  \nThe longer you wait, the more serious this issue will become for you.  It isn't going to go away on its own.
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maybe you were bitten by a spider or something, if it is gray scabs it may have been a brown recluse, and you need some antibiotics
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spider bites... some spider bites block out the nerve transittion and others over stimulate it... venom of any creature really but it would have had to bite your fingers or your hand.
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Any resistence you can provide will decrease the damage.  Your muscles tear and heal naturally and fast.  Your other organs react by scabbing over.  It is known that the worst thing the body does to itself is become inflamed.\n\nYeah - don't get stabbed, okay?
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well, you might get an infected foot, you might have a scared-for-life tissue and you also might have certain damages caused where your imune system isn't quite as affective