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a healthy youtuber exposed himself to a black widow bite for science because he was doing it with all sorts of other venomous insects he stopped the channel an
by Madmallard 4y ago
a healthy youtuber exposed himself to a black widow bite for science because he was doing it with all sorts of other venomous insects
he stopped the channel and stream for a week because he was seriously ill and went to the emergency room one of the days
"nothing to fear" is not really correct
- refurb 4y agoMy understanding is the reaction to black widow venom can differ a lot between people. Some people end up with a red swelling, itch, pain and that’s it. This is the majority of cases. Others can end up with a large area of tissue necrosis and get very sick. Some require skin grafts.
- Madmallard 4y agoBlack widow venom is neurotoxic so you have CNS effects
- GuB-42 4y agoThat would be brown reculses and spiders of the same family. I am not aware of black widow venom causing necrosis, it is a neurotoxin, causing things like paralysis. And indeed, in both cases, serious conditions are rare. Also, many bites are dry bites, where no venom is injected.
- harshreality 4y agoBlack widow venom is neurotoxic, and pain is its most distinguishing feature. Tissue necrosis would suggest an infection, or a different spider bite (like a brown recluse bite). Black widow venom, on its own, doesn't lead to significant necrosis. All spider bites, and skin punctures in general, can get infected. If infected by flesh-eating bacteria, recluse-like tissue necrosis results. This results in overreporting of brown recluse bites, due to brown recluse paranoia and availability bias.
- refurb 4y agoBlack widow venom contains more than just neurotoxin, but also toxins that attack the tissue. Besides, the main components of the venom of the spider are collagenase, protease, phospholipase, hyaluronidase, neurotoxin, and tissue-dissolving toxin. The secreted venom not only damages local tissue of the bite, but also causes local tissue swelling, degeneration, necrosis, ulcer formation... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8390344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8390344/
- harshreality 4y agoA lot of bites have some localized tissue damage, whether caused by toxins produced by the venomous animal's genome or resident bacteria in their venom glands (aside from bacteria getting into the wound separately, causing some amount of necrosis). Concentration matters, and I haven't seen anything indicating that necrosis is a real problem in black widow bites like it can can be from recluse venom (allegedly) or flesh-eating bacteria. Also, the claim in that (Chinese) paper of necrotic venom isn't well sourced.
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoGot a link?
- naikrovek 4y agoI won't Google it for you. you are on the same internet that I am.
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoI wasn’t asking you. I was asking the person who mentioned the video. Butt out.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoMaking a claim then telling other people to prove it for you is not how evidence works.
- watwut 4y agoI don't think science is the word here. Entertainment is.
- earthling8118 4y agoI think we learned over the past few years that things either kill you or you'll be fine. I don't agree with that sentiment but here we are.
- inetknght 4y ago> I think we learned over the past few years that things either kill you or you'll be fine. You should change that to you learned because we learned that even things that don't kill us could permanently harm us. Just ask all the people who've developed long-lasting permanent injuries from COVID. Long COVID is a thing.
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoWhat? No, that’s not the lesson anyone learned from the last few years.