A young man has shared a photo showing his
discoloured neck after suffering a bite from a false
widow spider.
The man suffered horrific injuries to his neck after he
was apparently bitten by a venomous False Widow
spider while collecting washing from his parents'
garden.
His neck swelled up before turning black and the skin
began to peel as he was left in agony.
Sunil Dade, 33, said the felt pain like a "lightning bolt"
when the spider struck after getting entangled in the
clothes as he was collecting from the garden.
After squeezing out all the poison he could from the
bite, a huge section of the skin in his neck area turned
black.
The scab measures around six inches from top to
bottom and took an agonising four days to fall off.
Mr Dade's skin on his neck is still red raw and is
causing him problems turning his neck and sleeping.
He told the Daily Mail : "I wasn’t scared of spiders before
– but I am now.
"I’ve broken two vertebrae before in an accident, I’ve
been stung by a bee, they were nothing compared to
this, it was a million times worse. It was like I’d been
struck by lightning.
"I started shaking, my legs, my arms, uncontrollably."
Mr Dade, who lives with his parents in Greenford, west
London, ran screaming to his younger brother Sandeep,
25, who noticed the fat-bodied spider lurking in his
hoody.
When they looked it up on the internet they believe it
was a false widow spider and it had a 'big hard black
body, with white and grey on it'.
Mr Dade said he went to his doctor the next day, after
trying his best to ignore the burning agony, and was
sent straight to the accident and emergency department,
Doctors gave him antibiotics but his skin continued to
turn black before starting to peel off.
Medics confirmed his version of events but say that
such incidents are rare in the country, though warmer
weather this summer may have led to an increase in the
UK.
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