‘UK’s most harmful spider’ left woman, 5, unable to stroll and coated in rashes

A five-year-old woman was left coated in rashes and unable to stroll after being bitten by Britain’s most harmful spider.

Lily Hodgson did not realise she’d been bitten when she complained to her mum a few painful ankle that made it tough for her to stroll.

By bedtime, her face began itching too. Her dad and mom thought it was a response to meals and gave her antihistamines. However, later that night time, her mum Genna Hunt woke to search out Lily coated in rashes.

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Genna mentioned: “I woke her up and she was covered in this strange rash literally head to toe. The worst it got was when the itchy rash was in her hair and all the way down to her toes, which was 24 hours later. Her ankle did hurt the next day and she did refuse to walk on it.”

Genna took Lily to their native pharmacy in Eastleigh, Hampshire, within the morning. Genna mentioned: “I just presumed it was a food allergy and would go away shortly.

“The pharmacist took us into a bit of aspect room and had a glance, and requested some questions. He mentioned he suspected it was a chunk response reasonably than a meals allergy and that he would really like her to be seen by a GP urgently.

“We were taken into a room with an on-call paramedic who covers at the practice. He got out a magnifying glass and said: ‘Yep, it’s a false widow spider bite.'”

The noble false widow is “widely regarded as the most dangerous spider breeding in Britain”, in line with a 2020 paper by Clive Hambler, an Oxford University zoologist. They’re not native to Britain and are thought to have arrived from the Canary Islands in banana bins within the late 1800s.

“We have no idea when she was bitten or what she was doing at the time,” mentioned Genna. “That day she had been at my parents playing indoors, walked the three-minute walk home to ours, and then played indoors at our house.”

She added: “Lily was already on antibiotics and antihistamines for tonsillitis and ear infections, so we were told to keep up with that as that is what he would have prescribed anyway. I do wonder what the reaction would have been like had Lily not already been on antibiotics and antihistamines. Would it have been a lot worse?”

Despite the itchiness and a few discomfort strolling, courageous Lily has coped effectively. Her rashes cleared up after 4 days and he or she’s largely dissatisfied that her chunk did not convey her superpowers “like Spider-Man”.

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