Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox! A woman's horror false widow spider bite was mistaken for a midge's nibble until her entire arm had swollen up.
An afternoon of sunbathing in a city park landed Tracey Hamilton in hospital overnight a few days later for emergency treatment.
What started as an itchy knuckle, Tracey assumed had been caused by a common bug, ended in her being placed on a drip as antibiotics battled with spider venom.
A doctor told the 50-year-old from Bishopbriggs, Scotland that she had been bitten by a false widow spider not once but twice, Daily Record reports.Tracey first took her swollen arm to hospital for antibiotics, but was told she may even need surgery to clean underneath her hand and prevent the.
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