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To: Rambi who wrote (66091)	12/6/2004 9:41:41 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Well, I should have also mentioned that the Brown Recluse isn't considered to be all that dangerous. I guess that the bite vary from something quite small, to something more, but perhaps that's more a matter of the victim's reaction to the bite -- there's some variation to how most venoms work from person to person.

To: Rambi who wrote (66091)	12/6/2004 9:49:39 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Regarding staph infections of skin, I think they are actually considered fairly common these days. When I was a teenager, I stepped on some tacks that one of my brothers had left lying on the ground where he was making a toy boat (grrrrhhhh!!!). A couple of days later, I started to have a lot of pain walking, and within another day, I was in obvious trouble. We ended up at the ER and it turned out that I had gotten a staph infection (probably S. aureus) in my foot. It was a major mess. Had to go on antibiotics for about a week and the thing got bigger and had to be lanced. I had to stay in bed with the foot elevated for about 2 weeks while it drained and healed. I had a horse at my cottage that summer and couldn't ride it for about 3 or 4 weeks due to all of this. Needless to say, I wasn't exactly thrilled with my brother who left the tacks on the lying on the ground.

To: Rambi who wrote (66091)	12/6/2004 9:54:20 AM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

Here's a short factsheet about Staph skin infections from the KidsHealth website. You will probably have already seen it or similar. I don't think S. aureus is really bad if its caught early enough. The problem is more when it becomes systemic -- it was actually getting to that point when I got it in my foot as there were red lines going up my ankle from where the infection first occurred. Anyhow, if the doctors are onto it already, it will probably be okay, but you really can't ignore this sort of thing. kidshealth.org