OT: Reversing damage from Brown Recluse bite

[Guest guest]

>It's good to know, but these aren't always available. But anyway, how

>much of these is enough for different kinds of bites?

Plain old ammonia works for a lot of them. We used

to get bee stings a lot: the ammonia reacts with

the venom and decidedly helps. I keep some around handy

in the summertime (put some on a cotton ball in a bottle

for hiking).

BTW my dad got a brown recluse bite once. He went camping

with me even with the bite, and somewhere along the line

he was using my towel. I ended up getting this abcess, then

another and another, which the doc said was staph or some such

and put me on antibiotics. 6 months later I used the same towel --

and the abcesses came back. So I think those brown recluse bites

also get infected with some nasty bacteria! This nitro idea

could really be a lifesaver -- thanks for sharing it!

-- Heidi

[Guest guest]

Heidi Schuppenhauer wrote:

> Plain old ammonia works for a lot of them. We used

> to get bee stings a lot: the ammonia reacts with

> the venom and decidedly helps. I keep some around handy

> in the summertime (put some on a cotton ball in a bottle

> for hiking).

Applying honey is also helpful for bee stings.

Roman

[Guest guest]

Heidi Schuppenhauer wrote:

> BTW my dad got a brown recluse bite once. He went camping

> with me even with the bite, and somewhere along the line

> he was using my towel. I ended up getting this abcess, then

> another and another, which the doc said was staph or some such

> and put me on antibiotics. 6 months later I used the same towel --

> and the abcesses came back. So I think those brown recluse bites

> also get infected with some nasty bacteria!

I would have thought that staph is pretty much everywhere, and I don't

understand why you got sick only after using the towel. Some super

virulent strain?

For abcesses, take a look at

http://www.lifebalm.com/page.cgi?newsletter/vol5_12 and

http://www.lifebalm.com/page.cgi?newsletter/vol1_2

Roman

[Guest guest]

>It's good to know, but these aren't always available. But anyway, how

>much of these is enough for different kinds of bites?

>

>Will it work for blood vessel constricting poisons?

I don't know, Chris

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> hee, hee, seems like there is. Hey Lynn, I heard you are getting the

> tongue and heart of the beef, what do you do with the tongue?

I'm going to put the heart in ground meat, and as for the tongue, I

think I'm going to try cooking it. Basically you boil it. It's supposed

to be quite good. If it's not, I have a dog and two cats.

Lynn S.

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[Guest guest]

Lynn Siprelle, Editor wrote:

> I'm going to put the heart in ground meat, and as for the tongue, I

> think I'm going to try cooking it. Basically you boil it. It's supposed

> to be quite good. If it's not, I have a dog and two cats.

Beef tongue is a delicacy in our home.

Roman

[Guest guest]

Yep we have them also and many more kinds of spiders including black

widows.

Ina

Darn, the article I looked at didn't mention this area, and I thought I

was off the hook. I don't think I've ever seen one of these, but I have

seen those wolf spiders, yuck.

Michele

[Guest guest]

<<How can you tell them from the normal run of the mill wood spiders?

The picture looks like a zillion other spiders we have around here.

>>

Good question and i don't really have a good answer. The ones around here

look like what i have always been told they look like--- small body, long

leggy and sort of an odd color. When in the open they are very quick but

they normally are found in quiet, dark places. It's the only spider that

really had me stop and do a double take as the spider stopped, reared back

as if to defend itself, sort of came back at me and i got a good look at

the fairly large pinchers. Just something " odd " about them. But according

to the article what we have are not brown recluse but some other type

<shrug>. Some time back i watched a show ( i think on Discovery) and they

look like one that was on the show.

Kathy A

Oregon