A man from Ottawa, Canada, woke up to pain in the Morning, violently sweating, with severe abdominal. He urge is felt to urinate, could this give way but to use the toilet. The Doctors in the er sent him, in spite of the condition of the home. Although he had made it to an insect bite carefully.
Due to his poor Constitution of the man went to the hospital of Ottawa. He explained to the Doctors that he think to be on the eve of an insect-bitten, and as the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine reported. He had sat in the high Grass and the insect therefore does not see.
The Doctors examined the patient’s urine and found traces of blood. They diagnosed him with a renal colic. This is often caused by kidney stones located in the ureter, and often spontaneously self-abandonment. Therefore, they prescribed him a painkiller and sent him home.
It went from bad to worse
Only a few hours later the man was again in the emergency room. He complained that his abdominal pain unbearable, and he’d be getting increasingly worse. Meanwhile, his eyes were want eyelids swollen and his blood pressure is unusually high.
Again, the Patient is made, the Doctors on the insect bite carefully and reported that the bite had begun after a few hours of pain.
The poison attacks the nervous
The Doctors examined again to his abdomen and discovered that approximately a Liter of urine was in his bladder. This was drained with the aid of a catheter. Also they took his note on the insect bite is more serious and moved to a toxicologist.
As it turned out, he was of the poisonous Black widow bitten. The spider with the bite of a poison that attacks the nerves. He was treated then an inpatient, and his condition improved after only a few days.
Doctors expected in the future with more bite
The Doctors justified their initial incorrect diagnosis that the bites of the Black Wittwen in Canada are extremely rare. Therefore, they had given the note on the insect bite in the beginning little attention.
Even if the Black widow is one of the most poisonous animals in the world, do not need to be your bite absolutely deadly. Are particularly at risk of lung and heart sick people, as well as children and the Elderly. In the case of a bite it is for everyone Concerned, however, at first, to be about six hours of clinically supervised. Typical symptoms of a bite pain in the stomach area, sweating, Nausea and vomiting as well as high blood pressure.
Originally, the Black widow, lived mainly on the East coast of North America as well as in southeastern Canada. As a result of climate change, doctors expect but with a further spread of the spider, and thus, with growing n the number of mouthfuls.