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What is the best treatment after getting bitten by a spider?

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Dr. Joseph Bouvier answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Depends: This depends on whether the spider was a medically significant venomous spider and what species or if the bite was from a non-medically significant species - and then any bite may become infected secondarily, so this should be watched too.

Answered 7/18/2013

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