Apology for the lengthy post, but its been a long month of healing with this Recluse Bite. Back in Nov while camping, I touched my stomach one night and popped a sudden blister. I didnt give it much thought as it was along my waist line, could have been from anything. I felt coldish the following day, and since I do bring my daily oils camping with me, I thought that since it was chilly out all weekend, I was coming down with something. So I took my flu bomb shot(in a shot glass of water since I did not have empty capsules available), 3 times over the next 3 days. As you can see in the pic, when we got home, I noticed the wound was starting to form on day 2. We showed the pic to a physician who suggested a desert recluse bite, and said to watch for fever, flu symptoms, or anything else out of the ordinary that could signal infection or toxicity. Never felt anything like that, just tried to care for the wound. I continued to topically apply my diluted flu bomb blend around the wound, followed by cypress, then a layer of immortelle. But the bandages caused a secondary irritation around the site from tapes and such. I used an all purpose salve to calm that redness whenever I could. Where I went wrong was I stopped the internal oregano after day 3 when I didnt feel any sickness. On day 16 we noticed the green seepage. Clearly the poisons were coming out and the wound was infected, but very localized. In light of upcoming travel to a warm moist tropical climate in 3 weeks, I needed to act quickly to get the wound to close up and heal, and kick and remnants of bad goo out of my system. I did visit my doctor, to get further wound care suggestions. That was on day 17. She complimented the localization and care of the wound that generally could have been much much worse. Recluse bites have a tendency to get necrotic and destroy large swaths of tissue. The location was the worst enemy and best friend of this bite, as it was not right into muscle but did face daily irritation along the waistband. I did get a tetanus shot(its been 16 years). We started wet packing since these heal from the inside out, with sterile saline, a maxi pad stuck to the inside of my waste band to avoid using adhesive on the skin, and I backed down to just an all purpose salve(coconut oil, Shea butter, vitamin e, beeswax, lavender, melaleuca, lemon) followed by light frank. The rapid healing began and I switched back to just immortelle on day 27 and soothies breast pads for protection....just working on scar healing now that the wound is no longer showing signs of infection. Moral of the story is the quick application and ingestion of my oils definitely helped minimize initial damage, systemic infection, and really kept this to a dull roar.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:14:08 +0000
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