I know I am obsessing about this. but I'm really freaked out about it. I killed a spider about 3-4 days ago by crushing it on my bed. Now I am afraid to sleep there, I don't know if the poison might hurt or kill me, and I really have no ideas about how to clean my bed in order to make it safe for me again. If I turn my bed over would the poisons aerate through the mattress or work there way through the mattress to harm me?
Please don't be afraid to tell me if i am being way too silly. But I am just very concernced and frightened about it. I need to clean it somehow so I can sleep again.
2006-11-13 14:10:32 · 7 answers · asked by NumberCruncher 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The vast majority of spiders have a venom so weak it is completely and totally harmless to human beings. It is venom designed for killing only other bugs about their own size and nothing larger in most cases. In the United States the spiders you generally worry about are the brown recluse spider and the black widow spider. In Australia you would be worried about Sydney Funnelweb Spider. If it was not black and did not have an hourglass red symbol on its back I would not be too worried.
As was previously suggested don't touch it, just remove the sheets at the corners for washing and change to a fresh set of linens. The blood of spiders is not poisonous. Just the venom is very small venom glands which is not a contact poison but a venom that must be injected into the bloodstream to have any effect, generally through the fangs.
2006-11-13 16:22:56 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi, you have nothing to worry about, but if you still are, wash the sheets, IF you can find the place on your mattress where the tiny creature expired, then just take a little hydrogen peroxide, blot the area, good as new, except for the spider, I don't think any more will be trying to climb up your bed any time soon.
Good luck
2006-11-13 14:35:51 · answer #2 · answered by wildmedicsue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Domestic spiders are not poisonous . . unless u stay in a remote jungle. They do not even have sting, these spiders merly catches their prey by using web and spin and leaving it to die. Unlike outdoor, spiders which sting teir prey to incapacitate them.
However if you fear, you may just wish to clean ther area by using a wet tissue or wet cloth with soap.
No worries there are no poison, even if there is, its not so biological in such a way that it could aerate.
Maybe you should try watching lesser horror movies.
Cheers.
2006-11-13 15:48:03 · answer #3 · answered by isz_rossi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The spider was probably not a dangerous one anyway, but even if it was, the venom probably didn't get on the bedsheet, but even if it did, it has to be injected to do any harm. In any case, tossing the sheet in the washing machine should allow you to be 100% certain that nothing remains.
2006-11-13 17:01:07 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just change a new bedsheet. As for your mattress, just scrub with soap and water, then air dry.
Actually, I wouldn't worry about it. it's just a small spider
2006-11-13 14:22:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well to start off you`d wanna get some soap and water and scrub at the spot with an old toothbrush makeing sure its all been cleaned then dry it and there you go but to be safer do that then flip your mattress
2006-11-13 14:14:10 · answer #6 · answered by dylan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know very little about spiders. But strangely, I killed one on my bed last night, too. Nothing to worry about, I'd say.
2006-11-13 14:13:18 · answer #7 · answered by hagbard73 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋