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Old 06-12-2007, 09:57 PM   #1
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Default Spiders? Be prepared w/this poultice remedy!

When ds was a toddler, he was bit by a baby brown recluse spider. I happened to see and catch it, watched ds's bite get huge and terribly frightening within 2 hours it was unbelievable. Took him immediately to the ped where he got a gamma globulin (?) shot and strong antibiotics both topically and orally and even then it was like 12 hours before the wound stopped growing. Super scary stuff - brown recluse spider bites cause necrosis - they kill the tissue/muscle/everything and keep on going.

After that incident, I did a LOT of research and found out that one of the most powerful things to treat a brown recluse (or any dangerous spider/insect bite) with is a poultice made of high quality dried bentonite clay and liquid colloidal silver. I purchased these items (they're not cheap) and hoped we would never need them, but after seeing what could happen and so quickly, still felt glad to have them on hand just in case.

Two weeks ago, ds got bit again by a brown recluse! We didn't see it until he started complaining about his leg hurting, and then were horrified to discover TWO bites on his shin. The skin was hot, red, hard, and had the typical red rings kind of apppearance from a brown recluse bite, with the rings actually spreading before our eyes within minutes. His leg was so swollen, we couldn't believe we hadn't noticed it!

I immediately ran to the cupboard and grabbed the bentonite clay and colloidal silver, mixed them in a glass bowl with a wooden spoon to a thick poultice consistancy, and got ds situated on the sofa with his leg elevated on a towel, where I applied the poultice nice and thick. I was supposed to cover it with a towel but forgot that part and left it open to the air. I gave ds some OJ with echinaca and goldenseal plus a Vita C 500 mg chewable for immune boosting and anti-inflammatory help, and dh scratched the other part of his legs for ten minutes when ds complained of intense itching (which is a common reaction from this type of poultice treatment).

About two hours later, we rinsed the poultice off with tepid water and the skin was red everywhere the poultice had been. At first I freaked out, thinking the bites had continued to spread, because the poultice was covering way outside the original bite/red area. But then we realized that the skin was no longer hot/hard and the actual bite areas were nowhere near as swollen as they had been. Within an hour, the bites had reduced to almost nothing and the skin was back to a normal color/state. Dh was amazed and I was incredibly grateful to have been prepared and known (for the most part) what to do. If you have brown recluse spiders in your area/home, these are must-haves that could really save your family a tremendous amount of suffering!

These are the exact products that I used:

Therapeutic Living Dry Powder Clay (I have the TLC 8 oz. jar which was plenty for a nice sized poultice and there is still half a jar left)

FutureBiotics Advanced Colloidal Silver (This is the 4 oz. bottle which is plenty, also very very important that it is a 10ppm solution)

I'm sure any high quality bentonite and 10ppm colloidal silver would be effective. And both of these products can be used for a wide variety of natural health and healing - just excellent stuff to have in your healing pantry! I can't say enough about how well this poultice worked on my little boy and how grateful his daddy and I were to have them on hand that night! Hope this info might help someone else have the same reassurance if ever needed.
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