People fear spiders around the world for a reason. It's usually because spiders have many eyes, legs, and have the capability to create complicated webs that are creepy yet stunning. However, when you ask a prepper what it is they fear about spiders the most, they'll likely say it's because they can bite.
However, even though spiders can bite doesn't mean every spider bite or spider for that matter is dangerous. Luckily when a person has to deal with a spider bite, it's usually only as painful as a mosquito bite.
There are a few spiders in the world that can cause grave discomfort for even the strongest of preppers, however. The brown recluse spider is one such spider that makes just about anyone uneasy. If a survivalist were to get bit by this venomous spider not only would they need to go to the hospital, but receiving the proper treatment is vital.
However, if the collapse is taking place what is a prepper to do?
On the next page, it's in your best interest to uncover what steps you should take if you were to get bit by a brown recluse spider and don't have access to a nearby medical facility during SHTF.
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I got bit on my shin 4 times. I developed necrotizing fasciitis, and had to have emergency surgery. The doctors had to excise the necrotic tissue, and put me on a massive regiment of antibiotics. I had a picc line in my neck, and was on IV antibiotics for two months. The doctors said if I’d waited 2-3 hours I would’ve died. The doctors saved my leg, but I was in, and out of the hospital for a year. That necrotizing fasciitis is no joke. I was far beyond herbal remedies, or charcoal. It’s crazy how a little spider like that almost killed me.
No experience with brown recluse bites (& hope I will ALWAYS b able to say that) but have used baking soda paste on some other nasty bites from unidentified spiders & also other insect bites like bee stings. Last 1 caused whole right side of my face to swell up then after a few days, weird bumps under the skin, & eye ticks for awhile after that… I read that doctors really cant do much for most spider bites (& have had some flaky experiences with Drs over such things, such as 1 trying to tell me there r no poisonous spiders in Wa after my daughter was bitten & her thigh swelled up the size of a basketball. They tried tontell me the swelling was all due to infection and not due to any venom in the bite. I call BS on that 1!) , so figured I was best off to try & treat it myself. Its not always a problem of being unable to access medical care, or of the entire grid or infrastructure going down, sometimes its a problem with the medical “care” thats available, being compromised for various reasons, & therefore potentially more dangerous than whatever is ailing you…
We used vinegar immediately on any spider bite. I react to any spider bite and once was bitten during the night on a finger. By morning was swollen to the elbow. Soaked brown paper strips in vinegar and wrapped arm and hand keeping it being at soaked. Down by evening. Choctaw way when bitten in the woods with nothing available-pee on it immediately. Same acidic action as vinegar. And yes I’ve done that and yes it worked better than the vinegar actually.
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I got bit on my hand once…me being a horse person always had tincture of iodine around…poured it on and soaked a gauze with it and taped it to the wound…gone in a day…the trick is to fight the bacteria from the venom i guess.
Comfrey root poultice
good article
Sounds less painful than my method. I use a mixture of meat tenderizer in warm water to kill the venom and stop it from destroying tissue, then keep it clean until it heals. It’s basically like pouring salt on an open wound.
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yeah… Camomile is a painless way to draw it out.
Corey Gibbard is this true
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Raymon Cook
take a sharp sterol razor blade, and cut out all of the effected area up to healthy flesh. get rid of all signs of infection. the infection holds the toxin that allows it to keep eating away. keep it clean, use peroxide to flush out after cutting it out. keep clean and dry and allow air to get to it so it dries to heal. do that as soon as possible. the sooner you remove the toxin, the sooner it stops spreading.
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I was bitten by a recluse on the back of by head. Since the flesh is not thick or deep on your head, The doctor cut a silver dollar size hole out down to the scalp to make sure the poison was completely cleaned out. Thank goodness it worked