Dapsone has been used, but it has significant toxicity: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/772295-overview Need to make sure there is no G-6-PD deficiency.
Russ#3 On Oct 11, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > I don't remember now what the healer did. But my techie has a good-sized > white spot on his arm where the spider bit. > > I think you need not worry overmuch. They really are *recluses.* They wish to > be away from humans. > > > On Oct 11, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > >> Pamela, >> >> I stand corrected and warned. >> >> Given that the Hospital here is such a mixed bag, I wonder if the collective >> wisdom of this list might produce a “spider bite center” in the country >> which one could call into if needed. I am terrified for the children. What >> did the healer do? Does your techie still have his hand? I found the >> loving descriptions of progressive necrosis on the web particularly >> alarming. >> >> Nick >> >> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf >> Of Pamela McCorduck >> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:02 AM >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Name this spider >> >> One of my computer techies was bitten by a brown recluse in El Dorado. All >> the rest is true--no help from the hospital, a wound that grew and grew. >> Finally he found a local folk healer who helped. He was very skeptical but >> by then desperate. I've been banging my open hand first against anything I >> needed to probe into, from the wires behind my computer (which is where his >> was lurking) to the woodpile, to... They are shy and would rather run away, >> but if startled, will bite. >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 11, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: >> >> >> Carl, it never occurred to me to confide in my spiders. I will reconsider >> that policy on your recommendation. >> >> According to my books, the brown recluse doesn’t make it beyond the 100th >> meridian (blood or otherwise). She has a local cousin, “desert recluse” or >> some such whose bite is not a problem. >> >> What I learned from the brief reading on the I-net and elsewhere is that >> there are no medical miracles to deal with these bites. I had always >> assumed I would rush down to St. Vincents, and if I got there soon enough, >> they would give me a shot, and that would be the end of it. Apparently not >> so. Particularly if children are bitten. >> >> Nick >> >> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf >> Of Carl Tollander >> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 10:23 PM >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Name this spider >> >> Black Widows - Shiny long legs, hourglass on back - worry some, as they can >> get agressive and the bites are persistently painful. Ubiquitous and the >> big one's can be resilient against 2x4's. They make more. Lots more. >> Brown Recluse - All brown, hides in slight creases on a newspaper - worry >> more due to cellular toxins. >> Wolf - Short legs, big body - not so much worry, just don't mess with it. >> They do bite, but they keep to themselves unless molested. I call the one >> over my front door "Kong". From the description, probably what you have. >> Everything else, leave 'em be, they're beneficial, bites not fun but not >> dangerous, probably. Good listeners. >> >> On 10/8/10 7:59 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: >> Hoping there's someone on this list that knows something about spiders in >> New Mexico... There were two of these hanging out just on the outside of my >> house in Santa Fe. One had made a large somewhat circular web about 2 ft >> across. At night it would sit in the middle, during the day it would hide >> in a corner. You can get an idea of the size from the tines of the dining >> fork. I think they are big. I've not yet been successful in finding >> anything online that seems to come any where close. Any ideas on what type >> it is, should I be worried? >> >> Let me know if you'd like a higher res. image. >> >> Thanks, >> Robert C >> >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> >> "How quickly weeks glide away in such a city as New York, especially when >> you reckon among your friends some of the most agreeable people in either >> hemisphere." >> Fanny Trollope, "Domestic Manners of the Americans" >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > "How quickly weeks glide away in such a city as New York, especially when you > reckon among your friends some of the most agreeable people in either > hemisphere." > Fanny Trollope, "Domestic Manners of the Americans" > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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