feederband wrote:I got hit by a BRS...It was teated twice and I thought it was done with untill I got sick one day and turned yellow and woke up 6 days later in ICU...Liver, kidney and heart faliue...
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/10729-2.asp
The brown recluse venom is extremely poisonous, even more potent than that of a rattlesnake. Yet recluse venom causes less disease than a rattlesnake bite because of the small quantities injected into its victims. The venom of the brown recluse is toxic to cells and tissues.
This venom is a collection of enzymes. One of the specific enzymes, once released into the victim’s skin, causes destruction of local cell membranes, which disrupts the integrity of tissues leading to local breakdown of skin, fat, and blood vessels. This process leads to eventual tissue death called necrosis in areas immediately surrounding the bite site.
The venom also induces in its victim an immune response. The victim’s immune system releases inflammatory agents—histamines, cytokines, and interleukins—that signal specific disease-fighting white blood cells to the area of injury. In severe cases, however, these same inflammatory agents can themselves cause injury. These secondary effects of the venom, although extremely rare, can produce these more significant side effects of the spider bite:
Destruction of red blood cells
Low platelet count
Blood clots in capillaries and loss of ability to form clots where needed
Acute renal failure (kidney damage)
Coma
Death
HOLY COW.......Michelle when she worked for the forest service as a Hot Shot had a team member get bit....by the time she got him to the ER, he had a MAJOR heart attack, the guy lived but.............
NOW.....another story, I WILL NOT post the whole story due to it's graffic nature, my step mother, who is a RN and worked at the local hospital had a patient who had used a "wooden outhouse" got bit on the ummmm, uhhhhhh....man parts!
