[at-l] ticks and spiders

[zach1235 at yahoo.com (Zach)]

Sounds like a spider bite, it may get worse before it
gets better. I'm not sure if there are Brown Recluse
spiders in Europe but a bite from those things looks
like rotting flesh for a long while.

But enough about ikky creepy bugs. We demand more
trip/trail reports from Europe, vicarious vacationing!

Godspeed, Zach

--- Kajsa van Overbeek <k_vanoverbeek@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> Just a quick question about some creepy crawlies,
> considering that some of you had some experience
> with
> them.
> Last weekend I was hiking in Luxembourg (Europe) and
> wanted to demonstrate a climbing move on the rocks.
> I
> grabbed a grip underneath a tiny spiderweb.
> 
> Right after I came back down, I felt like I had been
> bitten by something between my fingers.
> At first a bright red strip occurred, then you could
> see something like a white circular bump (same as a
> mosquito bite kind of), both of them disappearing
> after that and then resulting in my hand swelling up
> like crazy, to the point where I could not bend my
> fingers anymore.
> The swelling occurred over a period of a day or so.
> 
> Now, I know I can react quite allergically to
> certain
> mosquito bites, but still.
> No antihistaminic would work and because my doctor
> didn't trust it one bit, he prescribed some
> prednison.
> Now, very very slowly the swelling seems to go down.
> 
> What do you think, does this sound like a typical
> spider bite or could it also have been a tick? Since
> I
> didn't see what bit me...
> 
> Ciao,
> Kajsa
> 
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