What is the best treatment for a BRS bite?
The Brown recluse venom causes tissue necrosis . The enzyme primarily responsible is sphingomyelinase D (or phospolipase D), which disrupts cellular membranes. Various other enzymes in the venom may act as foreign antigens to trigger the victim’s immune response and contribute to necrosis. There are mixed theories on the proper treatment for a Brown Recluse Spider bite and varying degrees of success. Also every bite’s severity is different. A factor seems to be where the bite is located on the body. You can search for bite reports by severity and the part of the body bitten. Please take a look at the Treatment Information pages and search on treatments/medications to read about their success. You can review the “Frequency of Prescribed Medications” report that shows how many times each medication has been prescribed as reported in MyBite messages. A reader called our attention to the following article by Dr. Kenneth Burton, “The Brown Recluse Spider: Finally Stopped In Its Tracks”. Dr.
