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PubMed2001

Use of stun guns for venomous bites and stings: a review.

During the past 2 decades, articles suggesting that stun guns be utilized to treat venomous bites and stings have appeared in both the lay and medical press. Although never widely considered to be standard therapy for venomous bites and stings, stun guns are still considered to be a treatment option by some medical practitioners and outdoor enthusiasts. A Medline search was performed using these terms: venomous bites, venomous stings, snake bites, spider bites, electrical, stun gun, high voltage electricity, low amperage electricity, direct current, and shock therapy. Articles selected included laboratory-based isolated venom studies, animal studies, and case reports involving humans in which a stun gun or some other source of high voltage, low amperage direct current electric shocks were used to treat actual or simulated venomous bites or stings. We concluded that the use of stun guns or other sources of high voltage, low amperage direct current electric shocks to treat venomous bites and stings is not supported by the literature.

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PubMed1998

Bites and stings of the arthropod kind. Treating reactions that can range from annoying to menacing.

Bites and stings from arthropods are largely inevitable because of the number of offending species and their distribution throughout our environment. Wasps, bees, ants, mosquitoes, gnats, chiggers, and fleas are found all across the United States. Thus far, Africanized honeybees are limited to southwestern states and fire ants to southern states. Brown recluse spiders are found most often in the Midwest and south central region, but the black widow spider is found in all 48 contiguous states. The dangerous Centruroides species of scorpion live mostly in southern states and California. Fortunately, in most people, bites and stings from arthropods produce only self-limited reactions, which can usually be managed with cold packs, analgesics, and topical agents. In the few encounters that produce serious reactions, prompt diagnosis and appropriate treatment result in a good outcome in nearly all cases. The number of stings and bites can be reduced with use of a few basic avoidance and protection measures.

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PubMed1981

Bites and stings of uncommon arthropods. 2. Reduviids, fire ants, puss caterpillars, and scorpions.

Arthropod bites and stings may cause intense pain, sometimes out of proportion to the size of the lesion. Severe reactions may arise from prior exposure and buildup of antibodies. Diagnosis often can be made from the clinical presentation if the physician is familiar with the effects of the uncommon bites and stings. Some uncommon bites, such as those of reduviids, can be treated symptomatically, but others, such as those of poisonous scorpions, call for antivenin therapy.

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PubMed2004

A review of venomous animal bites and stings in pregnant patients.

This is a review of Medline and PubMed articles on venomous animal bites and stings during pregnancy reported in English literature from 1966 to 2002. Eighty-five venomous snakebites were reported in pregnant women. Although there are frequent anecdotal reports of scorpion stings in pregnant women, few case reports are documented. Other venomous animal bites or stings to pregnant women that have been reported include spiders, jellyfish, and insects, and these are described. Adverse reproductive and teratogenic effects of venoms on gravid animals are also briefly reviewed. Although uncommon, venomous bites and stings during pregnancy may have significant adverse effects on the fetus and the mother.

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PubMed1990

Stings and bites. Tips on coexisting comfortably with the insects.

Many stings and bites can be prevented if an individual has some knowledge of insect behavior. However, persons known to be allergic to insect stings should carry an epinephrine injection kit to use as a first aid measure. Those who travel far from medical facilities should additionally carry prednisone and oral antihistamines. The bite of a brown recluse spider may cause a minor reaction or it may evolve into extensive soft-tissue necrosis with a potentially fatal outcome. If necrosis occurs, a course of oral dapsone is recommended.

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PubMed1993

Venomous bites and stings.

Travellers to tropical countries are often extremely concerned about the risk of bites and stings by venomous animals. This fear prompts many enquiries, usually at the last moment before departure, about the possibility of carrying first aid kits and antivenoms. In fact, these accidents are extremely rare because most travellers wear shoes and are far less exposed to venomous animals than indigenous peoples for whom bites and stings may be important causes of death or morbidity.

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PubMed1989

Medical grand rounds. West Virginia University Health Sciences Center. Bites and stings. Part 1. Spiders.

Most animals can bite or sting. In narrowing the kingdom down to those that harm humans, the field still is vast. It would be interesting to explore the rich variety of pathology produced in us by moray eels, lionfish, sea urchins, jellyfish, sting rays, fire ants, kissing bugs, flies, lice, mosquitoes, ticks, mites, fleas, puss caterpillars, centipedes, snakes, dogs and cats, camels, and myriad other creatures including homo sapiens (not a trivial biter)--but for this grand rounds, the topic will simply be spiders (Part 1), bees and vespid (Part 2). Vespids are the wasps, yellow jackets and hornets.

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PubMed1970

Bites and stings.

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