I have been bitten by a spider, and I can tell you that what most people think is a spider bite, isn’t. A little itchy red bump – that’s not a spider bite; that’s a mosquito bite. How about a white, searing hot, prickly bump the size of a tennis ball? Yeah, that sounds about right. Here’s what you should do if you’ve been bitten.
If I got an itchy red bump on my skin that felt like a mosquito bite, but it was the middle of winter and I couldn’t remember being bitten, people would invariably tell me, “Oh, it’s just a spider bite. No big deal.” I never believed them, and you shouldn’t either.
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