Brown Recluse Bite - Home Remedies?

[pnuner]

The web site about using nitro patches was interesting. In Southern Oklahoma we have the brown recluse everywhere. A local doctor who did a lot of hunting on S. Africa came back with a treatment that was used there. Electric Shock from a stun gun of at least 40K volts. Painful? A little, but it worked like a miricle. He would shock around and through the bite. For example if the bite was on the leg he would attach a wire to one prong on the stun gun and then with the other end of the wire on one side of the leg and the stun gun over the bite he would shock in a circle around the circumfrance of the bite. Usually about 5 or 6 zaps is all it took. Within 2 or 3 days the bite would be almost completly healed.
The thing is it must be done within 72 hours of the bite.
It was also supposed to work on snake bites, but I've never seen it used for that.

Unfortunatly that Doctor passed away a few years ago and it's a little more difficult to find someone that knows how to do this. Before he passed away he tried to get this AMA approved with no luck.

I am no doctor but I have seen this work many times. I have the instructions on how to do it and have used it on myself when I got bit by some type of insect I didn't know what was. Don't know if it helped that bite or not but the day I shocked it was red and swollen the next day it was gone.

 

[Hakim]

Pruner,

I do not doubt that the essentials of this treatment are true, and probably work in various situations. HOWEVER ...

NO ONE should attempt to treat themselves with a stun gun.

The treatment you describe can be accomplished under medical supervision of an Acupuncturist, Naturopath or similar practitioner who has access to transcutaneous electro-nerve stimulation tools.

There are devices which "deliver" the electrical stimulation in highly controlled "dosages." It is absolutely best to seek a trained practitioner for this type of treatment.

Most medical doctors either will not perform this type of therapy, or doubt the underlying theory. Chinese and other "natural" healing practitioners use it all the time.

Hakim Chishti, ND
Naturopathic Physician

 

[YanmarFever]

I Zapped myself just a month ago with a stun gun because i got stung by yellow jackets, /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
I DID NOT zap my head (scary) but I did do my leg & arm
and the next day(gone) but my head continued to hurt.

I know it sounds like mumbo jumbo but it works.
Ernie <><

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I caught me a brown recluse this morning. Little puppy was in my parts box full of terminal lugs. You know, those little crimp on thingys for doing automotive electrical, blue, red, yellow, etc.

He-she was playing hide and seek into some little clear bell shaped butt splice connectors. In the morning light I saw that fiddle bigger'n the little thing it was.

Now I don't like spiders. Snakes make me nervous only if they surprise me. Spiders can make me nervous even if I see them and have two cans of hornet spray for each hand.

It was tricky but I backed that little bugger into one of those butt spice connectors and then tossed the connector into an empty water bottle.

Right up front I think you need to know he-she has one heckuva bad attitude. Overly sensitive to the point of being down right surly and very very angry.

I'll see if I can get a picture of the monster tomorrow.

Burrrrrrrrr, give me the willies by the dozen.........

 

[1bush2hog]

Glad you got him before he got you!

I'm still feeling the after-effects of the bite. While the original bite has healed, my skin is still purple/black around the bite area.

I also had a weird place pop up on my bicep (same side of the body). Thought it was a pimple at first, but within a week it became a lesion about the size of a dime and was filled with infection. I home doctored it with peroxide and scrapped the infection out and it is healing now(after the 4th week), but very much like the original bite - same look / same pain.

I still haven't felt 100% yet either. Symptoms seem very much like herpes or other similar virus.

Guess it will take some time to get over .

In the meantime caution everyone you know (especially children and elders) to become familiar with these rascals and their cousin the black widow. Know what they look like and where they like to live, etc. The best solution to a problem is to prevent it in the first place!

Don't be like me and think it won't happen to you.

I still feel very fortunate when I see all the other more severe cases out there. These suckers can really inflict some damage to their victims.

Send me a pic of the one you caught when you have a chance - stuck to the bottom of your boot. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[dinnar]

Just thought I'd let you guys know that last night I smacked a brown recluse spider with my bare hand.

I leveled up in my career track of spider killer.

 

[jonyyuma]

Okay, my turn to contribute..my working buddy came in after being bit by the brown recluse, then he was bit again the next week???BTW,the bite is painless, when the spider gets you.. They were nested behind his headboard of the bed..So now that gives you another place to look.I have the folding glue boards on both sides of our beds.I buy new glue boards every 6 mos. replace the one's one year old, they can be turned over on side every couple months and used more. I buy the folding type made for mice ond other pests. Wally world has them..You will not believe what you will catch crawling around and my house has been sealed with foam caulking.

 

[brin]

Here is an article I found on the brown recluse...for Georgia but it is interesting in that all bites are not serious...Scientist: Brown Recluse Spider Population in Georgia Not So Bad | Fox News

 

[1bush2hog]

Here is an article I found on the brown recluse...for Georgia but it is interesting in that all bites are not serious...Scientist: Brown Recluse Spider Population in Georgia Not So Bad | Fox News

and She's from CA too

I lived in GA 20 years before I ever had an encounter with a Brown Recluse. Never even thought about them before I was bitten.

 

[brin]

and She's from CA too

I lived in GA 20 years before I ever had an encounter with a Brown Recluse. Never even thought about them before I was bitten.

Well, how are you doing now ? What ever happened about your bite...?