Preppers and people alike fear spiders for a good reason. It's usually due to their big eyes, long legs, and those intricate webs they make to catch their prey.
If you were to ask a survivalist why he doesn't like spiders, most would say it's because they don't want to risk getting bit by one. Even though most of these creepy crawlers won't harm a person — the bite from a spider usually itches like a mosquito bite — there are still types of spiders that can harm you.
It's important to note that for every spider that isn't harmful, there are still too many that will cause a person grave discomfort. If you haven't heard of a brown recluse, you're about to learn why this spider makes the bravest survivalist squirm.
Why is this? If a prepper got bit by a brown recluse, they would need medical help. However, if a prepper bugs out a lot then receiving the proper medical care may not be possible.
What is a survivalist supposed to do if there's no emergency care available to them?
On the next page check out the steps a prepper must take if they're living off the grid and get bit by a brown recluse. If there isn't any emergency help nearby, it's up to a survivalist to understand how to treat the bite.
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There is an old African proverb. “What do you do when bitten by a black mamba. Crawl to the nearest tree and die like a man.”
Doesn’t sound like it will stop Necrotizing Arachnatism. An auto immune disorder caused by the venom in certain victims.
Lamar, easier said than done in some circumstances. My house which is a pre civil war era house is infested with brown recluse’s. I spray twice a year with 2 types of poison that is the best you can get to kill the recluse, yet safe for pets and humans, but these little bastards seem to multiply while evading the poison. I always try to keep the wolf spiders alive that I find because they also kill brown recluses, but my wife hates ALL spiders, so she stomps those too. They get in our clothes, bed, furniture. They drop from the ceiling. They’re in the attic, crawl space as well. I have a huge supply of activated charcoal handy. Supposedly, once you get bit by one, they leave a pheromone in you that attracts others to you just like a bee does when it stings. I believe it lol.
Put activated charcoal on the bite. Dampen the activated charcoal first. Put a bandaid over it to hold it in place. Change it a few times each day. Brown recluse venom moves slowly. You can buy activated charcoal at any pet supply store. Rite Aide should have it as well. Powder or granules, doesn’t matter.
Has the skin started turning black yet?
Pheromones true.. Im a walking spider man, without the peter parker and super powers lol
Matt it HAS to be Activated Charcoal. It is NOT the same charcoal you grill with.
Any pet supply store should have it. I’ve seen it at Rite Aid as well.
Danny Lee Jenkins
Secondary infection set in. Taking antibiotics. I think I’ll b ok.looking better. I’m goin to buy some activated charcoal to keep handy.
Thank you David
I have been bitten 9 times by desert recluse, the version of the brown recluse found in the American Southwest.
Here is my treatment, it works like a charm.
You will first notice a mosquito bite type bump, but it will be more stinging than itchy. It will develop a head that resembles a blister. That’s when you KNOW you have a recluse bite. If you can recognise the pain before the blister, which will grow, and start treatment ASAP, so much the better.
I use a mixture of charcoal and bentonite clay in a poultice, but mixed with coconut oil. The coconut oil based mixture will not dry out like the water based mixture will. This article cites the first time I’ve heard of only using charcoal for the first 4 hours. I keep this mixture on the bite for 3-4 days to be sure I’ve pulled all the toxins out. If ANY is left, it WILL start back up again.
Now, I also add essential oils to this charcoal/clay mixture. Some people poo-poo oils’ effectiveness, but I know from my own experience they do work quite well. I use DoTerra and Young Living brands. Add a few drops of both lavender and frankincense to combat infection and to speed healing. After you stop using the poultice, keep using the lavender and frankincense. A few drop of each on a band aid or gauze pad, directly on the wound. And you’ll be good to go, all better, in a couple weeks.
I’ve heard that too. I’ve been bitten 9 times.
Is it true they don’t spin webs?
At least it’s not a scorpion
Tree Kuchen
I’ve treated a lot of these…clean it out and a Saywer Extractor comes in real handy…
It will eat a huge hole in your flesh.
You might not make it. Be safe
Chanda Rose
Laura Lenkner
No.
I think I am a mine to them already. We had so many and could not get rid of them and just gave up. But the babies would be in your shirt when you put it on even shaking it first, your hat. They would bit you as the decended wamb! Wamb! Wamb#
Mike Rhodes
This don’t look like anything we got
I heard the venom out of a human penis will cure that go suck one report back in 2 hours let us know how it went
Amputate or at least cut the chunk of meat off and cauterize.
Step one: Tequila.
Step 2: Chainsaw.
Step 3: Bandaid.
Doctor told me mine was the cleanest bite he had ever seen and asked what I did.. I said opposite of what ya tell us to do for$#%&!@*.. I picked at it.. and he said in this case it was the best I could have done because all they would have done is cleaned it best they could and given me antibiotics
Doctor told me mine was the cleanest bite he had ever seen and asked what I did.. I said opposite of what ya tell us to do for$#%&!@*.. I picked at it.. and he said in this case it was the best I could have done because all they would have done is cleaned it best they could and given me antibiotics
Brandon Harrison
Take your$#%&!@*to the doctor. Problem solved. Lol
99% of the time people say or doctor says it was a brown recluse, they are wrong. Just a spider bite. All spiders are venomous. Everyone reacts differently. I love it when someone says, “I saw it!”. They are the size of a pellet used in a pellet gun. They are not aggressive and the farthest North for a reporting was a Boy Scout troop, in Virginia, that just returned from Mississippi. Brown recluse protein doesn’t stop. It doesn’t leave a hole and stop. It keeps going. If bitten outside the torso, amputation is the only way to stop it. There are no survival techniques. Would love to see these people capture one, let it bite them and prove their opinions work.
Medical doctors have no idea how to treat certain bites. They can’t tell one bite from another and without testing, have no idea how an individual will react.
I’ve cured one before but my technique is secret… And a little gross.
Ssshhhhh you’ve said too much lol
Out of all the$#%&!@*that could be in my news feed this is what pops up
Thank you Cuss.
Did anyone realize this is information for those who are living off the grid? If off the grid, how would they read it? If you’re on facebook, you’re far from bei g off the grid!!
Todd Extine stage 2 made me think of you.
This should be of no help to anyone living off the grid. Living off the grid means no access to fb posts!
Yeah, its called go to a hospital.
Carey Tom Clark
Daniel Stewart just so we’re prepared. Eddie said they would be taking over the world soon. Lol
Jeremy Killingsworth
There ain’t no proper steps you get bit you’ve got them sumbitches worse than black widders
If you’re living off the grid, are you still connected to Facebook?
It also bears mentioning that most brown recluse sightings are misidentified as brown recluse.
Secondly, the chance of getting envonomated by a brown recluse are almost zero.
Stephanie Rae Burd
Pretty useless article…if you get bit go to the hospital…if you cant click next page……use activated charcoal…..after that…click next page….use herbal Indian treatment you better of bought before you got bit…..click next page
Some gunpowder and denatured alcohol mixed into a paste will do the trick.