Brown recluse!!!

[Deucedano]

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So I just finished taking the boards TODAY and I had three messages from my dad asking me to call him back. I assumed it was to wish me good luck/ask how it went, but no....

He is in the hospital with a possible BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER bite!!! Another interesting little fact is community aquired MRSA cellulitis is commonly misdiagnosed as brown recluse spider bites or there is a secondary infection of MRSA after a brown recluse spider bite.

Luckily he is okay and it caused very very minimal tissue damage, but they werent taking any chances with the MRSA and ran 4 courses of IV antibiotics. Dont know which ones cause he says "they all sound the same" (haha, if he only knew).

Oh and he lives in Southeastern, PA west of Philly.

 

[MilkmanAl]

He is in the hospital with a possible BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER bite!!! Another interesting little fact is community aquired MRSA cellulitis is commonly misdiagnosed as brown recluse spider bites or there is a secondary infection of MRSA after a brown recluse spider bite.

Uh...so...you're looking at the fact that your dad got bit by a really dangerous spider as a medical curiosity? 😕

 

[Deucedano]

No I dont I just thought it was crazy... besides not all brown recluse spider bites end with amputation/mass necrosis. He says its not that bad and the doctors are just taking precautions.

Clearly I dont think its a good thing that this happened, but he is okay. I thought people would appreciate some context so they can recognize it in the future and prevent serious complications. I thought wrong I guess...

 

[MilkmanAl]

No big deal, it's just phrased a little bit strangely. Good thing he caught it early before any of the real nastiness set in.

 

[aashkab]

dang, i never made it to the brown spider part in goljan audio. lol, i hope it doesnt show on my test

 

[mq123]

dang, i never made it to the brown spider part in goljan audio. lol, i hope it doesnt show on my test

You might want to know that it makes a sound like a violin playing before it bites. High yield for sure. 👍

To the OP: sorry about your dad... hope he's doing better 🙂

 

[Deucedano]

Yeah hes fine... even told me to bring him a beer last night haha... but yeah he didnt even feel the bite... kinda scary which is why I thought I should share so it can be recognized and treated early!

 

[Doc176]

You might want to know that it makes a sound like a violin playing before it bites. High yield for sure. 👍

To the OP: sorry about your dad... hope he's doing better 🙂

well I just got a brown recluse spider bite question on UW. They didnt say anything about the violin part. The only thing they said that a woman was cleaning her garden and was bitten by a spider they asked what will happen and all the different necrosis types were in the choices. I had never heard of brown recluse but the thing is they never even mentioned it in the explanation so I thought that all spider bites will cause coagulation necrosis which was the correct answer. The term brown recluse was mentioned only in the topic of the question that we see when we load a test for review.


and Deucedano glad to hear that your father is ok