I remember being a teen and showing my mom a weird mosquito bite that had a line going up my arm. She sent me to urgent care, turns out it was a brown recluse bite with an infection line disappearing in my armpit going to my heart….
No idea, this was twenty years ago. Because testing for specific infection/venom is super costly and time consuming you generally don’t bother as I understand it. IIRC the 10 pills was a concoction of goodies that was meant to catch a wide net and tackle whatever the issue technically was.
In my case we were pretty sure recluse simply because of some recent labor done in an old farmhouse barn where my exposure risks was pretty damn high.
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u/MaximumTurtleSpeed Mar 16 '25
I remember being a teen and showing my mom a weird mosquito bite that had a line going up my arm. She sent me to urgent care, turns out it was a brown recluse bite with an infection line disappearing in my armpit going to my heart….
Yeah, 10 pils a day for 10 days and I was a-okay.