Barney wrote:[


We in Australia have red necks, from NZ, trying to breed with our native species, or what ever else stands still long enough.

I thought the Americans suffered fom rednecks breeding with others. ...............lol

Khun Paul wrote:

Barney wrote:[


We in Australia have red necks, from NZ, trying to breed with our native species, or what ever else stands still long enough.

I thought the Americans suffered fom rednecks breeding with others. ...............lol

Are you sure that is correct?

I understood that it was because they didn't breed with others

Shado wrote:Not a Red Back spider but a venomous species (Brown Recluse) from North America that bit a Thai man. Today's television news said the victim was in a coma after his leg was amputated.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/4 ... pider-bite

Cannot find any update on whether he came out of the coma,when reading about the brown recluse they say it is next to nil for anyone to lose a foot or leg and yet it has happened here.Not the most photo friendly creatures.

Professional Medical Colleagues of mine back in Australia are Hyperbaric Consultants in Hobart and successfully treated spider bites with the tissue necrosis , as described above. Published their work years ago...

FYI, - Hyperbaric medicine is the preferred treatment regime for Ulcers , tissue necrosis , acute sporting injuries for knees, ankles, as the treatment increases the Saturation of Medical O2 to the tissues .

Cannot find any update on whether he came out of the coma,when reading about the brown recluse they say it is next to nil for anyone to lose a foot or leg and yet it has happened here.Not the most photo friendly creatures.
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pomps udonmap.com Posts: 297Joined: May 18, 2014, 6:38 pm

According to the attached link the man died a few days ago. The article mentions a Brown Tarantula spider rather than the Brown Recluse. The tarantula part may be incorrect. Same person though, for sure.

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/spider ... -hospital/

its not the acute venom intoxication in these cases, but the tissue necrosis that develops later and then causes some nasty side effects , Kidneys are unable to filter these waste products , metabolic metabolism , and organ failure and death

Challenge if the patient was even given dialysis in the early stages.

Probably would have survived in a higher level of clinical care and hyberbaric treatment

Ok here we go,

Tasmania, has hit the headlines,

This is probably what this patient had

http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasma ... 7014708016

Strange no hyperbaric treatment ?????