The trouble with doctors, is that you can finish at the bottom of your class and still become one.

So many of them should not be practicing.
And that is the trouble, so many of them never stop practicing.

Hope it all works out ok for you.

I found this information which may be helpful

The white-tailed spider (Lampona cylindrata), and bites from some other spiders, such as the common black window or house spider (Badumna species), the cupboard or brown spider, and (in the US)the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa) and hobo spiders (Tegenaria agrestis), have been infrequently implicated in the development of the so-called necrotising arachnidism syndrome, in which a near-painless bite progresses to painful cutaneous blistering and inflammation which may progress...

www.anaesthesia.med.usyd.edu.au/resources/venom/spiders.html

Hope your boy gets well soon.

My cousin was bitten by a redback years ago, 2 days in hospital from it, only because it got her above the eye. Docs will proably lance it, and give a shot of antibiotics and probably send u home still. Cover it up and dont let any of the fluid leak out.
Hope he gets well soon.

Wow smicko that looks nasty. I wish the little fella a speedy recovery.

Been bitten twice by redbacks. Believe me, he'd know if he'd been bitten by a redback. Humungous pain starting almost immediately.

Holy hell that is nasty - nothing worse than seeing your tin lids in pain. What was the final diagnosis?

PS - nice wedding ring .....I don't wear one but do you get teased wearing it

Can't see it it's under a dressing, but the redness hasn't spread any. He doesn't seem any the worse for the ordeal, still nuts.

Sausage, are you inferring that my lovely has man hands?

Be careful, or I'll tell her and she'll hunt you down and strangle you with them
They're actually quite petite, it's the fact that the lad she's holding is only two that make them look like this

Good to hear,

I am a prat and my wife does not have man hands. She is an amazing wife and far superior to me in most ways although I do have superior man hands to her.

edit* get your own login Manhands.

Hey smicko how's your boy doing now? Been a while since the last update

Did the Docs work out what it was sort of spider? Glad he's alright now.

There is NOTHING special about white tail spiders.

A study of their venom shows they have nothing which can cause necrotising arachnidism. No Australian spider venom has been idetified which can, unlike the fiddleback in the USA

The ONLY clinical study of their bites was done in Newcastle maybe five years ago. Several hundred people who came to emergency departments WITH THE KILLED SPIDER THAT BIT THEM were studied. They sent the dead bits to spider-ologists to confirm identification of all spiders. Not surprisingly, there were all sorts of spiders, some of which were white tails.

White tails did nothing special. A bit of redness and not much else.

Not a SINGLE case of ulceration from any spider bite in the whole study.

When case reports of ulceration following white tail bites are checked - in NONE of them did anyone see the spider. What happened is someone got an ulcer of whatever cause, and then people decided it must have been a white tail bite. And hence the myth perpetuates.

I see this happening all the time in my work.

While the blisters here are cool, there is no way any doctor could positively identify the type of spider by the bite.

The ones which can be positively identified? Redback (severe pain coming on within seconds but usually not immediate, localised sweating and the hairs standing on end near the bite site). Funnel web and relatives - sick patient, severe pain immediately (they have acidic venom), localised twitching of muscles

Sorry to be a party-pooper

Got bitten by a white arsee bastard, was about 2 years ago during my sleep..... Felt the bite and slapped the monster and found it dead on the mattress. Had a bad itchy spot, it is still itchy now!