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Skin Lesions Often Misdiagnosed as Spider Bites
Posted 14 Jul 2011 by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, July 14 – Misinformation about venomous spiders and spider bites often leads emergency department and primary care physicians to falsely blame the eight-legged creatures for "necrotic" skin lesions, new research indicates. Necrotic lesions are those in which the tissues of the body die due to a lack of blood and oxygen, and the condition is irreversible. The report pointed out that necrotic lesions on the skin are typically not the result of spider bites and often have more common causes, such as staph infections or Lyme disease, which is caused by bacteria carried by deer ticks. As a result of these misdiagnoses, many patients are being given unnecessary antivenom and are not receiving appropriate treatment in a timely fashion, which puts their lives at risk, warned the authors of the Seminar, published online July 14 in The Lancet. At the same time, the authors, Dr. ... Read more
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