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When to Seek Immediate Medical Care: Severe symptoms: If the bite area is rapidly worsening, developing a blister or ulcer, or turning black (necrosis). Systemic symptoms: If you experience nausea, vomiting, fever, body aches, or difficulty breathing. Signs of infection: If the bite area becomes increasingly painful, red, swollen, or starts draining pus. Suspected complications: If you develop signs of a systemic reaction like jaundice, kidney failure, or seizures.
 
Depends on whether the spider was carrying bacteria. White tails here cause necrosis not so much from the bite but the anthrax variant they often pick up from the soil.
 
I had a Huntsman in my work cargo pants once for 3 or 4 hours. Couldn’t figure out what was scratching me and finally put my hand up the leg. Thought it was a piece of bubble gum but it was a big old fat huntsman....which bit my finger tips. I put him on a piece of paper and went to report a spider attack at H&S. Should have seen thosr old men and girls freak out. Lol
 
Don't get old in Oz, or the Huntsman spiders will drag you off to an old folks' home that they run, where they feed you granola and make you watch 'I Love Lucy' reruns.