#venomous bite

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Whumperless Whump Event Day 26 - That's no barn spider: Venomous bite Maybe the snake wasn't in the boots, but it still was somewhere

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Huge venomous snake found on homeowner's windowsill: "Absolute weapon" — Newsweek

September 29, 2022

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Hi! I super love what you're doing even though I've spent the last few months with writer's block apart from the occasional fanfic! I have a two part question! Firstly, if a venomous snake or spider bites your finger, will chopping said finger off actually do anything worthwhile?? Secondly, if chopping it off does work, what kind of problems are going to arise from hacking off your own finger with a machete and then waiting six hours to see a doctor?? Thanking you!! xxx

What?! Wh… no! Why would you… oh dear. Oh no. No me gusta, @galpalswithasnogbox . No. Me. Gusta.

Cutting off the finger will not do anything except hurt,cause irreparable harm to the hand, and fail to stop the venom from enteringthe bloodstream. Plus there’s the whole “bleeding and infection” thing.

And the whole “CUTTING OFF YOUR OWN FINGER THING”. DO NOTDO!!

Good luck with your story!

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

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Aunt Scripty! Theoretically, what would happen if someone injested a necrotoxin, like brown russet spider venom?

Hey there! “Injested” is one letter away from “injected”, which is typically how spider venom enters the body. It is also one letter away from “ingested”, which, unless you eat your spiders (spoiler alert: you do not eat 22 spiders a year, that makes no sense, dumb trope), is unlikely and more interesting.

There is also, to my (and Google’s) knowledge, no such thing as a “brown russet spider”. There is such a thing as a brown recluse spider. So I’m going to assume you’re talking about drinking brown recluse spider venom, because that interpretation is most interesting.

Brown recluse bites, as I’m sure you’ve read from The Wikipedia (hallowed be thy URL), are actually rarely necrotoxic (cause necrosis), and they really don’t wanna bite us, so there’s that too. However, we’re talking about drinking their venom, which could do.... absolutely nothing, or could (permanently) fuck up your day.

The reason I say “could do absolutely nothing” is that I know less than nothing about the chemistry of the toxin; it could simply denature given the acidity of the stomach. 

Assuming it doesn’t, you can expect (per wikipedia):

nausea, vomiting, fever, rashes, and muscle and joint pain. Rarely, [such bites] can result in hemolysis, thrombocytopenia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, organ damage, and even death.

Medline reports cases of kidney failure, jaundice (as a result of liver issues), seizures, coma, and, of course death. (Seizures/coma/death is a very popular triad actually.)

All this is theoretical (and subject to The Disclaimer of Doom), because I have not found any resources on people drinking spider venom.

xoxo, Aunt Scripty