I HATE BUGS!!!

[jojo man]

Hey all,

as none of you have noticed, I've been very inactive as of late on the forums and there's a very good reason for it. Several weeks ago, I was bitten in the foot by a Brown recluse spider. This was the first time I'de ever been bitten by a spider, so I wasn't really sure what to expect when the doctor told what had bit me. Well my foot swoll(sp?) like a balloon and I started to have a bad fever. No big deal right? A daily antibiotic and rest and i'de be good as new right? Wrong. Less than a month later, I'm bitten by a tick. And guess what? The little sh** infected me with Rock Mountain Spotted Fever. That gave me a REALLY bad fever, nausea from hell(I vomited so much that I became dehydrated to the point that I had to be hospitalized to keep my blood pressure from dropping any lower), dizzyness, and icing on the cake: a $500+ hospital bill. Right now, i'm in no mood to appreciate their ecological significance. I just REALLY,REALLY,REALLY hate bugs.

[MalachiDelacot]

On the foot...bummer since it pretty well stagnated you for awhile.

Last spring I was thinning out some bushes and got bit by about an inch and a half to the left of my belly button. Luckily, I was able to have things taken care of at my OD's office. The bite was pretty well swollen up with infection. My Dr hade me lay on the table and said he had to lance it. Said I wouldn't like it. So he lanced it, and it wasn't too bad. I commented on it.

He said, "You really won't like this next part" and he squeezed the thick pus out (ended up about the size of a golf ball).

It hurt like a mutha vulker and I said, "I've fallen down a mountain, been beat by sticks, shot, stabbed, and trampled by a horse and nothing's ever hurt that much and if you keep doing that, I'm taking you off my Christmas card list."

Anyway, to make a short story long, I 've now got a scar to the left of my navel. First time at the pool, somebody remarked, "He's got two belly buttons." My reply...."hey, born again...."

[Praxsia]

Join the club man, join the club...

 

-Dume

[Dark0ne]

If there's only one good thing about England it's that there's very few (or no?) bugs that can cause these sorts of wounds! ;D

 

All I can say is "ouch"...and yup, I hate bugs

[Malchik]

If there's only one good thing about England it's that there's very few (or no?) bugs that can cause these sorts of wounds! ;D

 

All I can say is "ouch"...and yup, I hate bugs

 

Well, except for this one, of course.

 

Lyme disease is endemic in the UK and Europe as well as the USA and other parts of the world, and increasing numbers of cases are being seen as awareness about the disease increases

 

The organism that is responsible for Lyme Disease is a spirochaete organism Borelia burgdorferi which is transmitted by Ixodes ticks. The main host for this disease is Deer, but dogs, cattle, horses, humans and other animals can be infected "by accident" if they are bitten by an infected tick.

 

Once introduced into an animal the organism replicates locally and spreads via the bloodstream (spirochaetaemia) localising and causing multi-organ disease some weeks (in dogs about 4 weeks) after initial infection.

 

In Europe dogs present with the following signs :

 

Anorexia

Fatigue and weakness

Fever

Paralysis of facial muscles - leading to dysphagia

 

In the USA infected dogs develop :

 

Anorexia

Lethargy

Fever

Lameness - with joint pain

Occasionally cardiac disease

Occasionally renal disease

 

In humans serious disease involving multiple organ systems may occur if it is not recognised and treated - including the heart and CNS :

 

Bulls-eye skin lesions - a small red pimple that progresses to form a red ring

Flu-like aches

Joint pains

Fatigue

Dizziness

Shortness of breath

Borelia organisms can be isolated (though it is difficult because they are present in low numbers) from :

 

Blood

Urine

CSF

Joint fluid

Serological tests may be helpful - but high titres are to be expected in animals living in endemic areas, so a positive result does not necessarily mean that the animal has the disease.

 

Treatment is with antibiotics - amoxicillin, tetracycline, cephalexin, doxycycline or chloramphenicol by mouth for 10-14 days. Ticks should be controlled with suitable ectoparasiticides, and secondary organ disease (eg cardiac or renal) should be treated as appropriate.

There are specific parts of the UK where the disease is more common than others.

[MalachiDelacot]

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Hoo wee.... I bet you would be a real hoot in a thread "Foreign Objects in The Food We Eat".....

[Vagrant0]

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Hoo wee.... I bet you would be a real hoot in a thread "Foreign Objects in The Food We Eat".....

I think we can be happy enough without such a thread. For me, not too many poisonous/dangerous insects in the immediate area, about the only thing that has me bothered at the moment are ants. Been finding a few black ones running around the house the last week or so, several of them around my computer (already cleaned). There are few things as unsettling as seeing this little thing crawing up onto your desk while you're trying to do something. Spiders, no problem, they tend to stay clear of me, ants however don't seem to have any problem with crawling up onto my mouse hand while I'm working.

[Carah]

Oh my, I've seen what a bit from one of those spider's can do to a person. It's pretty nasty. We (here in canada) were give a warning about it when going out into the garden.

 

I hate spiders

[Sativarg]

I am sorry you got bit.

 

I was bitten on the ankle by a brown recluse 12 years ago and it still bothers me. I was lucky because I knew what happened right away. I was in a lady's shed cleaning out some old boxes. That evening I found the bite. The tell tail rash was barely forming. I took 2000 MG of vitamin C, Two of my one/day Vitamins and soaked the bite with WD40 and put my foot up. I got sick. I took 1000 MG of C every three hours and drank as much water as I could stand. I ate three cloves of garlic one every three hours till I was out.

 

The next day my ankle was swollen buy didn't hurt. The rash was bigger and the whole aria felt vaguely itchy. Within a week a blackish-brown nasty soar began to heal. It only got to the size of a dime. But that spot is always itchy now and the whole leg tends to swell and ache a bit at times.

 

If I had had money or a doctor I would have gone to the hospital but I was living in my car and broke. Who knows if I did the right thing but it was what came to me to do. OH yea I prayed too. Maybe that was the most important thing I did??? Who knows.

 

Any way, I suggest that you make sure you are getting good nutrition. If you can find it Theragran-M Active has a good formula or OneSource Pure performance is also good. Extra Vitamine E is important for reducing free Radical (chemistry)as well as Coenzyme Q10. I hope you recover well and that you can limit your hatred to the truly bad "bugs" and

give the rest of them a chance.http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/1125/beedi5.gif

[jojo man]

Yeah, For two days the spider bite looked like nothing but an in-grown hair, or a mosquito(sp?) bite. Nothing like what you would expect a BR bite to look like. Then it hit me all of a sudden. I just woke up on the third day and found my left foot to be twice the size it had been when I went to sleep. It hurt like crazy too. That made me miss two days of work, but as bad as that was, it was nothing compared to the Spotted Fever. It turns out that it wasn't being properly treated for about 4 days because I thought I had a stomach virus. The only reason They found out what it really was, was because I insisted that they draw blood and test it when I went to the hospital because I was so dehydrated.