Spider bites!

[mikalikat]

Sat down at the computer the other night and was nailed three times in the left arm--don't know where the little bugger disappeared to, but my arm is hot, the three places are huge and ugly and today I feel very yuck.

DH heard on the news this week that August is spider month in Central Oregon and Tuesday night, we had one about 1/2 the size of a golf ball on the screen to the sliding door. He pinged the screen and it flew 1/2 way into the yard. Apparently not a poisonous one, but GINORMOUS. We have three little frogs that come out each night to perch underneath the bug zapper and I need to talk to them about getting with the program and cleaning out the spiders!

[VersysRyder]

Ewwww...how are you feeling today?

[jacee92]

Get some benadryl cream to put on the bites. It works great. My daughter gets reactions like that to mosquito bites. The bite swells all up and it's just hot as can be.

If i'm out of the cream i will also use vinegar. It helps reduce the swelling and itching.

[mikalikat]

Got the cream--helps a lot. I took some Tylenol to get rid of the achy feeling. I just had to scratch the crap out of them to break the tops. That yucky clear stuff that dries comes out and gets rid of the poison. Sorry to be so graphic, but that's how you get spider bites to heal. My arm is hot to the touch and you can feel the mounds. Stinking spiders........allegedly over 1/2 of the homes here also have Black Widows. Joyous.

[vmoon]

If you see a ring form around the bite see a Dr. ASAP!

[mikalikat]

Just checked--no rings. Even the swelling and red is going down. I have assaulted them with alcohol pads and Calamyne lotion today and it looks like two of them are on their way to drying up. The worst one is still a bit red and hot, but no ring.

[Carl]

I have heard that jewel weed is good for lots of things if you have it in your area. Brushed up against a sting nettle the other day. Rubbed the leaves from a jewel weed plant on the site and the itching went away like now!

[Carl]

Here is a link to the jewel weed we have in Michigan

http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/hydro/jewelwed.htm

[mikalikat]

Interesting--I had never heard of it! My whole left arm kind of has this dull ache today from the bites down. I think having three big spots in such a close proximity concentrated the poison--two on the outside right above the elbow and one on the inside on the same place.

[mattfivefour]

I've got to tell you that as an arachnophobe I am sorta creeped out by this thread! Thank you Lord for not sending me to live in an area with spiders that actually attack people! :woah:

But the talk of spiders hit me today as I read Spurgeon's daily meditation for the morning. While his text refers to spiders, his subject relates to the apostates and the phonies that we warn about on this site.

Here it is:

"They weave the spider's web."—Isaiah 59:5.

See the spider's web, and behold in it a most suggestive picture of the hypocrite's religion.

It is meant to catch his prey. As the spider fattens himself on flies, so the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and even the more judicious cannot always escape. Philip baptized Simon Magus, whose guileful declaration of faith was so soon exploded by the stern rebuke of Peter. Custom, reputation, praise, advancement, and other flies, are the small game which hypocrites take in their nets.

A spider's web is a marvel of skill. Look at it and admire the cunning hunter's wiles. Is not a deceiver's religion equally wonderful? How does he make so barefaced a lie appear to be a truth? How can he make his tinsel answer so well the purpose of gold?

A spider's web comes all from the creature's own bowels. The bee gathers her wax from flowers; the spider sucks no flowers, and yet she spins out her material to any length. Even so hypocrites find their trust and hope within themselves; their anchor was forged on their own anvil, and their cable twisted by their own hands. They lay their own foundation, and hew out the pillars of their own house, disdaining to be debtors to the sovereign grace of God.

But a spider's web is very frail. It is curiously wrought, but not enduringly manufactured. It is no match for the servant's broom, or the traveller's staff. The hypocrite needs no battery of artillery to blow his hope to pieces, a mere puff of wind will do it. Hypocritical cobwebs will soon come down when the broom of destruction begins its purifying work.

Which reminds us of one more thought: that such cobwebs are not to be endured in the Lord's house. He will see to it that they and those who spin them shall be destroyed for ever. O my soul, be thou resting on something better than a spider's web. Be the Lord Jesus thine eternal hiding-place!

[mikalikat]

Truly, I am an arachnaphobe, too, but your post was INTERESTING--thank you!

[mattfivefour]

Truly, I am an arachnaphobe, too, but your post was INTERESTING--thank you!

[pistache]

*shudders*

*doesn't know why she clicked on a thread with the word "spider" in the title*

[bghtnpd4]

Lor, do ya'll have Brown Recluse spiders in your area? When you said spider bites, I got concerned about this particular spider because it can (in rare cases) be fatal if not treated. Hope you're feeling better, sister, and that the bites aren't serious.

[BuzzardHut]

Interesting--I had never heard of it! My whole left arm kind of has this dull ache today from the bites down. I think having three big spots in such a close proximity concentrated the poison--two on the outside right above the elbow and one on the inside on the same place.

Clearasil helps draw and dry out the poison too

I made the mistake of watching "spider bites" on youtube once

[mikalikat]

Lor, do ya'll have Brown Recluse spiders in your area? When you said spider bites, I got concerned about this particular spider because it can (in rare cases) be fatal if not treated. Hope you're feeling better, sister, and that the bites aren't serious.

Yes, we have Brown Recluse's and Hobo Spiders, too, both of which are hideously poisonous. I am not an outdoor person to begin with, but even less of one because of that fact. The bites are finally going down but boy, the areas around them are sore.