Brown Recluse Spider Bite

 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

Example of a dermonecrotic L. reclusa bite.

 

 

 

 

L. reclusa bites may be slow to heal, but lesions heal with little scarring.  Surgery or medication is not required to treat most bites. [1]

 

[1] Anderson, P.C. 1998.  Missouri brown recluse spider: a review and update, Missouri Medicine 95:318-322.

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