So, I got bit by a spider. WARNING< GRAPHIC PICS INSIDE

[n_cole]

@Jammer

MRSA

I’m telling you this, please listen.

See an infectious disease doctor. The Albany area only has a few.

Nurses and doctors mis this diagnosis all the time, especially in the capital region. They hate to admit it though. It may be too late now to test properly.

web snippet: MRSA and Staph infections can be easily mistaken for a brown recluse spider bite which can have a very similar appearance on your skin. Unless you saw a spider bite you, chances are good it’s community-associated mrsa (CA-MRSA) instead.

According to Tom Frank, Pharm.D., B.C.P.S., an assistant professor of family and community medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, if you think it’s a spider bite, get a culture test because what you are seeing is probably community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA).

According to Frank, of all the patients who believe they have a spider bite, “77 percent of patients presenting with soft-tissue infections are showing up with MRSA on culture.”

If you believe you have a spider bite, consider visiting with your doctor or an infectious disease specialist (an I.D. doctor) to get a bacterial culture test to confirm what is causing your condition.

Everyone can keep saying brown recluse all they want, if it were me I think I would get checked out, screw taking chances.