A Person is Off Grid When He Gets Bit by a Brown Recluse. Here’s How He Can Effectively Treat It.

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People are fearful of spiders throughout the world for a reason. Whether it's due to their appearance and how they walk or their eyes and the precision in which they build their webs is unknown, but the fact is people fear spiders for a reason.

The good news is that there aren't a lot of spiders that pose a danger to humans. Luckily even if a person should bite you, the bite is usually as painful and itchy as a mosquito bite.

However, there still are a few deadly spiders that should result in the most unsqueamish person to pause. If you've heard of the brown recluse spider then you're likely afraid of this spider as well. After all, if you were to get bit by this spider you'd need to go to the hospital.

But what if there's not a hospital nearby and a survival situation is unfolding? If you're bugging out or trying to escape danger a hospital likely isn't an option.

On the next slide learn about what it takes to treat a brown recluse spider bite, especially when there's no emergency help available. 

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133 Comments

  1. Steve Shock said:

    When are people going to finally stop spreading the old BS about the recluse? Almost ten years ago the medical community finally accepted what arachnologists had been telling them for decades. That the bite of the recluse is nowhere near as dangerous as the hype would have you believe, and it never causes massive tissue damage in healthy people who are not allergic to venom. The cases of tissue damage that were blamed on the recluse are now acknowledged to have been misdiagnosed cases of afflictions like necrotizing fasciitis or cutaneous anthrax. The overwhelming majority of recluse bites, upwards of 80%, produce nothing more than localized minor pain and swelling. Systemic effects are exceedingly rare.

  2. Nelson Eugene Begley said:

    Never read article but have been bitten several times by those and others. Running hot water as long and as hot as i could stand the heat changes the chemical of the poison into less damaging chemical. Heals without any problems every time

  3. Alex Floyd said:

    I already knew this treatment but everyone needs to read. Otherwise trust me this little spyder will eat your tissue n rott it.

  4. Bellinda Rose said:

    I did vicks and hot water washrag wraps. . . nasty$#%&!@*had a month and a half hassle with it. .

  5. Roy Dean said:

    Plantain, hot clay, and charcoal. If the bite continues to rot, try honey. I was bit on the butt cheek and couldn’t sit for 3 months. I tried everything and while some things helped, the only thing that made it start clearing up was antibiotics.

  6. William Turner said:

    Is it possible for a person to develop an immunity to brown recluse venom? I could swear i was bitten by one on my back porch when I was younger, with no adverse affects.

  7. Jeff Baker said:

    We natives know that mother earth provides your food,.medicines and needs without chemicals..why kill your mother?..live.naturally. .

  8. Mark Counts said:

    Evidently you’ve never been bitten. There are treatments. I remodel old houses. I deal with them on a regular basis.

  9. Megan Dominy said:

    That pic is NOT a brown recluse. Plus they can only bite if they’re pushed against the skin

  10. Jack Blevins said:

    I too have been bitten twice by this little monster. Both times admitted to the hospital for 7 days,then 8 days. Remember, every person reacts differently to a brown bite. I’ve seen some a lot worse reaction than mine. In the head hair was the worse, hair fell out and two black eyes,she looked like a raccoon. Bless her heart. Both spiders were tiny ones. Learned a lot from those two in counters.

  11. John Slaughterbeck said:

    Got bit by one once. Got to the size of a golf ball before I sliced it open, squeezed it with plyers from a few directions and poured peroxide then alcohol into it. I don’t let bites swell up that much anymore.

  12. Brian Lemoine said:

    extract as much as possible venom and pack it with powder charcoal to draw out any more venom.. Change and disinfect charcoal dessing 3 x’s a day…

  13. Neihana Tipuna said:

    I wonder if this treatment is suitable for whitetail’s. They’re nasty little fuckers. Especially the females. Their venom eats the flesh and makes you sick as a dog.

  14. Anji Cymbaluk said:

    I got bit by one last summer not cool. Got the old residue out and look care of it…bast things

  15. Jeremiah Diehl said:

    If you flex really hard while getting bit, it will force the venom back into the spider and cause it to explode

  16. Jeremiah Diehl said:

    There are a number of spiders that look very similar to brown recluse. You have to consider the possibility that it was not a brown recluse that bit you.

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