White tail spider bites

**Slunnie** · 10th December 2009, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by crump

Simple, it doesn't, its not possible, its an old wives tale.The annually recurring sore theory is crap.The only way you could get something to happen after the bite had apparently healed would be a latent infection.( I have had this happen after a Perentie bite, a few weeks after the original wound appeared to have healed, my hand got infected.)I went to the doc, got some antibiotics and all was well.I have been bitten by hundreds of goannas, snakes,skinks , dragons etc over the years and it has never happened and never will.Trust me on this, my parents told me the same stories as well.

Crump do you have a medical background? As far as I know relapses are not uncommon - a friends dad used to have them with Malaria.

**zulu Delta 534** · 10th December 2009, 07:00 PM

White tail spider bite = white King bleach.....not in your eye though!
Regards
Glen

**crump** · 10th December 2009, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by Slunnie

Crump do you have a medical background? As far as I know relapses are not uncommon - a friends dad used to have them with Malaria.

yep, I've spent a lot of time in therapy.

No. I was making reference to the bullrout/stone fish comments, which is also (fictiously) applied to most non venomous reptile bites.As for malaria, a blood born parasite, yes it does reccur, that IS documented, but the bite site doesnt magically reappear on its anniversary.

**THE BOOGER** · 10th December 2009, 07:08 PM

Google recurring necrosis has some info about the recluse spider and other bites etc

**crump** · 10th December 2009, 07:16 PM

spider bite necrosis is documented, I know that, what I am saying is that none of these things reoccur.If you have necrosis or infection from any animal bite, you have it,its doesnt go away and come back on its anniversary.

**LOVEMYRANGIE** · 10th December 2009, 11:26 PM

Mrs LMR here.... I had a white tail bite about three years ago - you dont feel the actual bite I just woke up with a sizeable blister on the front of my foot, had been a big night so did wonder what it was. Through the course of the day it became quite painful, and stoopidly I popped it! That made the pain unbearable.
Being a Sunday I didnt bother about a dr. By Monday I had to sit at my desk at work with my foot up and ice on it- my boss marched me out to the dr. My Dr took one look and sprung into action - was a white tail bite. The next week was spent at the dr's surgery each day having the wound packed with medication gauze and I was on very strong oral antibiotics. By the friday she was threatening hospital.
Thankfully it started getting better from her treatment, but the pain was pretty intense the whole week. To say it looked gross is an understatement. My health was less than ideal for about six months - and I still have a small scar and some muscle deterioration in my calf...
Those that say these arent THAT bad have not experienced this particular nasty little bite...

**LOVEMYRANGIE** · 10th December 2009, 11:28 PM

Woohoo!! Got her to finally post!
She always said "nah! I not posting anything, what would I know about anything on there..."

Well, whitetail bites for one!

**V8Ian** · 10th December 2009, 11:50 PM

At one stage there was speculation, by spiderologist/medical experts about the possibility of an unclassified subspeces(?) of white tail.

**LOVEMYRANGIE** · 11th December 2009, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Nope!!

Sorry Mrs LMR but unless you saw the spider and actually got it identified there is no way you can say, it was without a doubt, a white tailed spider. Nor can your doctor.

I have also seen tick bites end up necrosed and requiring surgical debridement and hospitilisation

There are many things that could have bitten you

Really?? What makes you so sure about that???

Sources for those that wish to know....well I have none. Just general conversation with doctors after caring for patients admitted with necrotic conditions post bites by something unidentified

Ahhhhhhh.....

**amtravic1** · 11th December 2009, 06:00 AM

I find it interesting that some people on here refuse to believe others about the effects of a white tail spider bite.
In my own experience, I know it was a white tail that bit my father, I was there, I saw the spider and I killed it. I also saw the damage this spider bite did to my fathers arm. He was lucky because it bit him on the elbow where I assume thicker skin may have prevented more damage however I saw the mess it made of his arm and as my father worked for me and I saw him nearly every day I know what the re-occuring effects were. These continued for years, but as time went by the effects slowly wore off.
Just because it is not written in a medical journal somewhere does not mean the spider does not cause the symptoms described to some people. I would have thought the evidence of those on here who say they have had a bad experience with this particular spider would be enough for those disbelievers to start to think that maybe they should think again about how the spider bite can effect some people.

I also know of another case of this spider bite that ended in tragedy after a girl was bitten and eventually lost her leg and she could not cope with the constant pain and life without a limb.

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