I live in Ontario Canada. I was sitting in my living room three days ago (Thursday) and felt something crawl up my hand. I had my hand underneath a laptray working on my laptop pc. Before I got my hand out from under the tray something stung me (thumb). I thought it was a bee (it is winter here). A luggage bag had been brought up from the basement earlier in the day. It was so painful and sharp I was sure it was a hornet of some kind. I could not find one. We took the couch apart...lifted it up...vacummed the entire thing...swept the hardwood and the curtains and never found the supposed 'bee' culprit. I had a dot looking like a bee sting, surrounded by a white elevated ring, surrounded by redness. This subsided by the next day...completely. Then Sat night the area became hot and red and looked as if I was just bitten or stung again. The white edges are now gone(Monday) but the dot came up to a blister and opened. It is still has erythema around it and a hard area around it.
2007-01-29 13:02:58 · 5 answers · asked by GAIL C 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ First Aid
It IS probably a spider bite. It does not sound like a brown recluse, so it's really nothing to worry about. If it should get more cruddy and infected, you could see a doc, but right now it sounds like it's gonna be ok.
2007-01-29 13:10:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apply hydrogen peroxide to clean the area and apply some neosporin to keep away infection. It could have been a spider bite...probably a wolf spider, or European house spider, as they are very common in Ontario...it would not be the poisonous hobo spider or brown recluse because they are not found in Ontario. Resist the urge to pick or squeeze! And if you are worried about it, or it seems to worsen, or if you come down with flu like symptoms such as fever or nausea then see your doctor.
Also, if it were a tick bite...the tick would be visible...you won't get Lyme disease if the tick didn't latch on...I doubt the person below is a real EMT. And a spider bite does not always present with two distinct fang punctures, due to the fact that the spider is so small and his fangs so close together...a snake bite would show two punctures.
2007-01-29 22:03:38 · answer #2 · answered by Redawg J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can go to you regular doctor and get it checked out - you may need an antibiotic.
Since you are still alive and have not lost your arm to gangrene yet, suffice it to say you have not been bitten by one of the dangerous species of spiders such as black widow or brown recluse. Anything else is the same as if you were bit by another non-poisonous insect.
If you find that you can now climb walls and shoot webs from your wrists, then you were likely bitten by a radioactive spider that had escaped from a research lab.
2007-01-29 21:08:24 · answer #3 · answered by littleturtleboy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is hard to tell if it is a spider bite. what i am worried about is possibly a tick because spider bite usually presents with two not one puncture mark. your description also greatly matches that of a tick bite. IF YOU DEVELOP FLU LIKE SYMTOMS SEE A DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY this is an indication of lime disease a very bad disease carried by ticks and can cause paralysis.
2007-01-29 23:28:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anthony V 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ya get it checked out by a doctor
its definately not poisenous because within 24 hours you would of at least seen your arm start to "rot" away and you would of definately freaked out and seen a docter :P
anyways its not to serious in fact it may be a fire ant they tend to do that (pain, more pain, itchy, blister, itchier, blister opens, pain, then its gone; in that order for me anyways)
2007-01-29 21:14:10 · answer #5 · answered by adr k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋