Alabama: Child dies 14 hours after brown recluse spide bite

[Emily]

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/mom_describes_daylong_descent.html

Albertville mom describes daylong descent to death of her son after spider bite
By Mike Oliver
on November 28, 2014 at 9:58 AM
ALBERTVILLE, Alabama - Immediately after being bitten by a brown recluse spider on the shoulder blade, 5-year-old Branson Carlisle complained but didn't seem too bothered, running around playing, eating a breakfast of pancakes and sausage.

"He ate his breakfast and was feeling fine," said his mother Jessica Carlisle, 23.

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As Jessica waited outside ICU, she soon heard loud voices. They were yelling for O-negative blood, she said.

"Doors started flying open and people started coming running from everywhere," Jessica said. "I've never seen so many doctors in one room."

"The nurse came out in the hallway and sat down," Jessica said. "They told me his heart had stopped."

It was 11:30 p.m.

Jessica said the medical staff were doing everything they could to make his blood clot. She said she was told his organs were bleeding...

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/brown_recluse_spider-bite_deat.html#incart_river

By Mike Oliver
on November 28, 2014 at 9:58 AM
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Unlike black widow spiders which inject a neurotoxin, brown recluse spiders venom is called a cytotoxin, Howell said. It causes the skin and what's beneath the skin to erode.

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But Slattery said in some severe cases, the venom can go systemic resulting in "the breakdown of red blood cells."..

Here's another fairly recent case:


http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2012/10/17/rapidly-progressive-fatal-sequelae-of-brown-recluse-spider-bite-case-report/