You’re Bugging Out and Just Got Bit by a Brown Recluse Spider. Here’s How to Effectively Treat It.

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Spiders are feared around the world for a reason. It's likely because they have many legs, eyes, and make intricate webs that look creepy yet beautiful. However, when you ask a person why they fear spiders, they might tell you it's because they bite.

Even though spiders can bite doesn't mean all of them are dangerous. Usually, when a person gets bit by a spider it's only as painful as a mosquito bite.

There are a few spiders that can cause discomfort in even the bravest of survivalists, however. The brown recluse is such a spider and can make about anyone uncomfortable. Get bit by this venomous spider and you would need to go to the hospital. However, if the collapse is taking place you'll be out of luck.

After the break find out what you should do if you get bit by a brown recluse spider when SHTF and there's no access to a medical facility.

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148 Comments

  1. Bryan Smith said:

    Sure always blame the brown and the black spiders !!! The next thing you know they’ll be saying the white spiders are racist !!!

  2. Terry Weyer said:

    Here Barbara Price-Schafer this is the one to watch out for…

  3. James W Thomas said:

    Tennesse is full of these suckers such a little spider can do so much damage from. Bite!.

  4. Paul Mobley said:

    I was bitten by one when I lived in missouri while I was sleeping. I slapped it and it ended up biting me twice on my inner thigh. Ended up having to get the rotting flesh cut out and flushed with saline. Was sick for over 2 weeks.

  5. Tonya Chandler said:

    My daughter was bit by one. It started out looking like an ant bite, 4 days later you could see her bone in her big toe. It took lots of steroids and meds and months of healing. We didn’t know what bit her until they tested her, and I am sure many others don’t know either for them to prevent the chain reaction of the bite.

  6. Ron Barlow said:

    Have been bit few times they are not as bad as tge media makes them out to be

  7. Laurie Villers said:

    Unfortunately they are all over here in Wisconsin.. the white ones ate freakiest

  8. Nathan Foutch said:

    Man…I was bitten on my butt cheek. I went a week thinking it was a festering hair. Squeezed it, then it changed to a boil. Popped it, then it went necrotic. I had 15 foot of packing placed inside the cavity. Surgery.
    Luckily, it was my butt…less capillaries to spread the infection.

  9. Sean Allen said:

    I’ve been bit twice here in Ohio by those bastards they will eat you from the inside out if toy don’t get to a hospital I just did another job last week where there were hundreds of them even caught in sticky traps but I did not get bit..but I was told to use rubbing alachol 90+% an it dryed out both times

  10. Paul Adams said:

    We used to deal with these bastards while working for the van lines. Black Widows never bugged me but these ones I was always skeptical of. If you found one there were plenty more in the load. Widows we would find from time to time but not in bunches like these bastards.

  11. Ed Lebeau said:

    Google “Brown Recluse shock treatment” long ignored by medical profession and actively suppresses by the FDA. Also, plantain poultice are known to pull out infection and toxins and is used by some herbalists.

  12. Collette Ringstad said:

    Microhydrin powder made into a paste actually will help pull the toxins from the bloodstream/body. My grandpa figured this out when one of his friends daughters was really sick from a bite. My family uses it on hobo spider bites if you don’t take care of those your skin will crater really bad and you can lose a limb because of it.

  13. Carol Henry Madding said:

    There are documented cases of people having amputations due to brown recluse bites. In a SHTF scenario, it could be quite dangerous. And black widow bites are horribly painful.

  14. John Fiske said:

    I know all about it. My mother’s entire calf was eaten away by a brown recluse bite. The smell is horrible and the pain is unbelievable.

  15. Glenn Lilly said:

    Jeri Baker. Look at this spider. Look Christopher real good for bites.

  16. Phil Gasaway said:

    I felt it right away! Burned like hell! Rotted a hole in my thigh big enough to stick my thumb in.

  17. Phil Gasaway said:

    I used Prid drawing salve and washed/brushed the dead skin away twice a day. It was very painful. Doctor told me there was very little else they could for me that I wasn’t already doing.

  18. Phil Gasaway said:

    Put a can of this in your bug out kit. It won’t make it go away completely but it will help. Mine never got larger than my thumb and the doctor told there was little they could do other than pain meds and high powered debridement, I used a toothbrush and hydrogen peroxide. The salve had a soothing effect after each cleaning.

  19. Teri Harmon said:

    Makes sense to me. It’s what you drink when overdosing on pills. Absorbs it. The ER uses liquid charcoal. I’ll have to check and see if it can be bought at a drug store

  20. Jason Owen said:

    Echinacea tincture great for rattlesnake bites as well. Look it up.

  21. Wayne Eckwright said:

    cut an x on the bite and find some maggots…they will eat the decaying flesh so it doesn’t go septic

  22. Danny Howell said:

    tech that’s lye…. When u add water to charcoal.. It makes lye.. Which would dry out any venom.

  23. John Parker said:

    Them Fellers spiders you’re talking about I see bites from them and even been bit by bit rot your skin a little bit underneath can be a whole bunch but it is basically about your skin and it goes away in about 6 months it seems

  24. Howard Adkison said:

    Got bit last year for the first time by one never want to have another one

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