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What to do if spider bite is swollen, painful without being touched and has a greenish blister in middle but doesn't seem to have spread after 48 hrs?

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Dr. Marsha Davis answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Leave the blister : Intact and get the lesion looked at to see if you need antibiotics

Answered 7/21/2014

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