Recluse Spider bites and VM

[Joelene9]

  Sounds good!  Have your Dr. contact the "poison control center" nearest him.  They might have info on the insect bites, treatments and reactions.  Mine is the Rocky Mountain Poison Control and Drug Center.  This was the go to place on poisonings, drug interactions, animal and insect interactions nationally for quite some time.  Their info on the brown recluse spider, as well as other venom bites has save lives in the past and was chronicled in the local press.  I don't know if this center will respond to international calls though. 
  Joelene

[SandraJane]

Then again...if the antiviral cream is working and the sites are crusting Shingles it is. Keep the cream handy for any future eruptions, and dust away the cobwebs. Glad yer feeling better!

[LordKAT]

anti viral cream? wish doc here would have heard of such a thing.

I hope you are doing better Virginia.

[V M]

The cream is not an antiviral cream, it is the same cream I've used for bites for a few years... There is no crusting, the bites are dissipating as in fading away... The med.s for shingles are pills which did nothing other than make me sick as a dog, dizzy, throwing up and want to sleep all the time 

[SandraJane]

Whatever, Brown Recluse Spider Bites, Shingles, Valtrex, sounds confusing...

[SandraJane]

To LordKat...yes there is such a thing as antiviral cream/ointment, Zovirax (Acyclovir), better than taking pills that make one sick.

VM...what is the bite cream you are using? Neomycin, Bactracin?

[V M]

VM...what is the bite cream you are using? Neomycin, Bactracin?


Betamethasone Dipropionate... It is a prescription cream I got for bites a few years ago... I get a refill at least once a year

[SandraJane]

Thanks, and may you have a speedy recovery!

[V M]

Thank you all again   

*Update*

The bites are barely visible and all but gone now