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When She Woke Up From Sleeping, She Noticed A Strange Mark On Her Arm. What It Ended Up Being…
When a young woman in England woke up one morning, she discovered a huge spider bite which quickly formed into a large blister and open wound.
It was March 24, when Carelle Mowatt, 24, woke up to find a large blister a spider bite on her leg.
At first the country singer decided not to go to the doctor and self-medicated herself with antihistamines. But the blister continued to grow. Then it suddenly burst wide open.
As it continued to get worse, she finally decided to visit a doctor and get her leg checked out.
“The next day, I plucked up the courage to see a doctor who told me it looked like a spider bite and was infected,” Mowatt wrote in her blog. “I started a course of antibiotics and had it bandaged every day.”
“The pain was absolutely unbelievable. I became nervous about anyone going near my leg. I wasn’t sleeping as I associated my bed with the bite.”
Two weeks after the bite, she was rushed to the hospital where she was loaded up with antibiotics and injected with morphine to ease her pain.
“We put my pain down to a bad allergic reaction to a regular house spider bite,” she said.
But a month later, her condition continued to worsen. Doctors were baffled.
“I had an actual hole in the side of my leg,” Mowatt said. “The bite had become necrotic. This is when your body can’t recover a trauma, when there is inadequate blood supply and the cells have totally died.”
That’s when a dermatologist scraped away the dead skin so new skin could grow in its place.
“The pain was unbearable,” Mowatt said. “I had five people pinning me down. Unfortunately, the necrotic tissue was firmly glued to my leg. I was facing surgery.”
But a spider bite specialist and plastic surgeon told her that the wound was healing and any surgery might risk further infection.
“A week later, the surgeon contacted me to say I should start letting air get to the bite and start showering too,” Mowatt said.
“This felt like Christmas – an actual shower!” she added.
But the doctor did need to perform surgery to remove the dead tissue.
“The pain was crazy,” she said. “Then, my superhero alter ego kicked in. ‘Take it off now!’ I said. All I recall is the intense pain. But the necrosis was gone.”
She was likely bitten by a venomous spider and now urges anyone with similar symptoms to see a doctor right away.
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When a young woman in England woke up one morning, she discovered a huge spider bite which quickly formed into a large blister and open wound.
It was March 24, when Carelle Mowatt, 24, woke up to find a large blister from a spider bite on her leg.
At first the country singer decided not to go to the doctor and self-medicated herself with antihistamines. But the blister continued to grow. Then it suddenly burst wide open.
As it continued to get worse, she finally decided to visit a doctor and get her leg checked out.
“The next day, I plucked up the courage to see a doctor who told me it looked like a spider bite and was infected,” Mowatt wrote in her blog. “I started a course of antibiotics and had it bandaged every day.”
“The pain was absolutely unbelievable. I became nervous about anyone going near my leg. I wasn’t sleeping as I associated my bed with the bite.”
Two weeks after the bite, she was rushed to the hospital where she was loaded up with antibiotics and injected with morphine to ease her pain.
“We put my pain down to a bad allergic reaction to a regular house spider bite,” she said.
But a month later, her condition continued to worsen. Doctors were baffled.
“I had an actual hole in the side of my leg,” Mowatt said. “The bite had become necrotic. This is when your body can’t recover from a trauma, when there is inadequate blood supply and the cells have totally died.”
That’s when a dermatologist scraped away the dead skin so new skin could grow in its place.
“The pain was unbearable,” Mowatt said. “I had five people pinning me down. Unfortunately, the necrotic tissue was firmly glued to my leg. I was facing surgery.”
But a spider bite specialist and plastic surgeon told her that the wound was healing and any surgery might risk further infection.
“A week later, the surgeon contacted me to say I should start letting air get to the bite and start showering too,” Mowatt said.
“This felt like Christmas – an actual shower!” she added.
But the doctor did need to perform surgery to remove the dead tissue.
“The pain was crazy,” she said. “Then, my superhero alter ego kicked in. ‘Take it off now!’ I said. All I recall is the intense pain. But the necrosis was gone.”
She was likely bitten by a venomous spider and now urges anyone with similar symptoms to see a doctor right away.