I vacationed in San Antonio a year ago. Had a great time, except..I noticed my finger began to have pain and swell up.. . It swelled up more and the skin peeled back. I could see the bite in the middle of the swollen finger.The skin peeled all the way around my finger. Being from midwest, the doctors had no clue what this was. I am sure doctors from Texas would know what this was. Was this a spider bite? If so, what kind. I still to this day have no clue what caused this.
2007-09-27 15:05:46 · 7 answers · asked by mia 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ San Antonio
AS you did not see the injury, or remember the point of time when it occurred it would be hard to give an exact answer to your question.
However, as Lalana has suggested the possibility of a brown recluse bite would definitely be in the differential diagnosis in San Antonio, especially with the localized tissue damage as you described. The bites can be extensive and severe, so you may have been bitten by one, or sustained another injury with a similar point of entry type of presentation, and resultant symptoms. I'm glad that it eventually resolved without major tissue damage. I have seen people have amputations due to probable brown recluse bites.
2007-09-28 00:25:32 · answer #1 · answered by US_DR_JD 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a genra of spiders that are basically suggested as, "leaping spiders" they arrive in numerous distinctive hues and sizes. Then there is the Wolf Spider which extra heavily resembles your spider, they're community to mandatory Texas, yet are common all for the time of the southwest, they too are available distinctive hues and sizes, the Wolf Spider not in basic terms like the leaping spiders will chew and could reason some gentle discomfort on the positioning of the chew.
2016-10-20 04:43:01 · answer #2 · answered by gustavo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am very sorry that you were bitten by a (maybe) spider. Here we have a large variety of spiders to include the Brown Recluse and the Black Widow. We also have cow ants, fire ants, scorpions. Along with those we have all four the poison snakes as well. Believe it or not I have even seen a large black hairy legged tarantula. With out seeing the bite no one should assume that the bit is from a Recluse spider it might have been and again maybe not. It does sound cool to say that you were bitten by a Brown Recluse, the choice is yours.
2007-09-27 16:53:30 · answer #3 · answered by ffperki 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't know the answer but it sounds like a good band name - San Antonio Spider Bite
2007-09-27 15:09:24 · answer #4 · answered by Dave 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like a recluse bit you.
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html
They are not just in the San Antonio area, but we do have them. Not everyone has the same reaction. Sorry, you did.
http://www.brownreclusespider.org/brown-recluse-spider-location.htm
2007-09-27 15:32:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
dont you worry and instead be happy if its a spider bite for you know you might be the next spiderman
2007-09-27 16:17:08 · answer #6 · answered by Joscoro F 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
oww
2007-09-27 15:12:49 · answer #7 · answered by Bre :) 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋