A lot of things get blamed on spiders: pimples, infections, parasites, other bugs, you name it. About.com First Aid gets hundreds of pictures of various lesions that may or may not have come from nefarious spiders.
Sometimes lesions are caused by spider bites and sometimes they're not. Whether a spider is to blame doesn't matter as much as whether it's time to see a doctor and get aggressive treatment. These are some possible spider bites, shared by the victims themselves.
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Oozing Spider Bite on Knee
I think it was while they were fishing with their dad or while he was asleep later that night. But he didn't say anything until Wednesday after school..I notice he was limping when he got off the bus…
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Spider Bite on Middle Finger?
Felt something on my leg, swatted it down twice. I think it must have got me either one or both times when I swatted it off my leg. Soon after, I felt some pain on my middle finger, the top joint of …
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Painful Boil Might Be a Spider Bite
I was on my way out of town with my mother on a Monday night and when we got to our destination I noticed a bite on my leg and it was itching so I figured it was a mosquito bite, but the next day it …
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Swelling Gets Worse when I Lie Down
I woke up with my eye swollen shut, and it was itchy. I suspected it was a insect bite. I checked the bed and found a daring jumping spider under the pillow. I killed the spider and looked up what ki…
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Bumps
I found every single one by them itching so bad. First it started on my foot and over the last 3 days I've just been finding more. Each one I find comes in sets of two. I'm the only one in the house …
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Boil: Skin Infection or Spider Bite?
Felt tenderness and inspected the area, found bullseye like swelling red spot. It is getting more painful to the touch and I am getting a little worried. There is light red circular area of hard tiss…
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Spider Bite on Arm
She was sitting on a chair that had been closed up thru the winter and went fishing. She felt a pinch on her hand and looked down and it was a brown spider on her hand/wrist. She blew it off and call…
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Animal, Mineral or Vegetable: What Caused This?
Simply woke up one morning (approx. 46)and my thumb was swollen and red. Over the next four week skin kept peeling off my thumb. This has finally begun to subside after weeks of covering my thumb dur…
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Ankle Biter
I'm not sure how I got the bite, just noticed my foot started swelling up and pain started coming to the point to where I couldn't walk on it. So I look at my leg I se something that looks like a bit…
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Flip Flops: Out!
I was at a school festival for my grand daughter & I honestly didn't even feel the bite happen. I was walking around enjoying events. I sat to rest & felt a little burn. When I looked at my foot it h…
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Something Bit My Daughter
She got bit on 4-14-12 while playing outside in grassy area. She started to itch like crazy.On 4-15-12 I noticed a dime sized-bulls eyed bruise with purplish color and red lesions inside the ring and…
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From Chemo or Spider?
Ok I am going through chemo over hep c type b1 I'm craving fresh fruit my lil girls b-day is coming up and she asked for a garden of fruits ad vegs that way we both could enjoy it so I got the plants…
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Skin Boil from What?
found on my leg when I returned from my Swaziland and south africa vacationfor the moment it's an open ? for the belgium doctorsFiber.bigger every day.Under my skin. In the middle dark grey and red a…
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Spider in My Shoe (I Think)
I was working outside in my lawn with loose fitting moccasins on. I came inside and laid down to rest when I saw a bright red spot on my right foot. On closer inspection there was a red spot about 8m…
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Scabs from Critters or Not?
Have been battling this since Aug 2011, at varying degrees of intensity. Like different (life cycles) maybe?? I dont know? I chose to come to the internet because every where I go, I am told I am cra…
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