INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR NURSING STAFF REGARDING APPROACH TO A PATIENT WITH SPIDER PHOBIA AND/OR BITE | ||||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||||
| Article 19, Volume 46, Issue 1, April 2016, Page 167-178 PDF (5.76 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2016.88966 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| MAHFOUZ AHMAD AL-AGROUDI1; SALWA ABDALLA MOHAMMAD AHMED1; TOSSON A. MORSY2 | ||||
| 1Military Medical Academy, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Spider bites are uncommon medical events, since there are limited number of spiders worldwide with fangs strong enough to pierce human skin, and most spiders bite humans only as a final defense when being crushed between skin and another object. Thus, most lesions attributed to spider bites are caused by some other etiology. The spiders that can cause medically significant bites include widow and false widow spiders (worldwide), recluse spiders (mostly North and South America), Australian funnel web spiders (eastern coastal Australia) and Phoneutria spiders (Brazil). Acute spider bites most commonly result in a solitary papule, pustule, or wheal. Systemic symptoms can accompany envenomation of widow; funnel web, and Phoneutria spiders, and less often, those of recluse spiders. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Spiders; Medical importance; Nursing; Control; General review | ||||
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