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Symptoms of the initial injury may include pain, bleeding, redness, swelling, and inflammation. [4] [1] The injury may show small purple or black dots or staining of the skin from the natural dye inside the sea urchin. [4] [1] These symptoms generally subside with complete removal of the spines. [4]
Symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, extreme pain at the wound, muscle cramps, and a laceration at the puncture site. There have been cases of severe consequences which may include embedded spines, infection, hypotension, and even possible amputations or death. [ 13 ]
A common sign of a bite from a venomous snake is the presence of two puncture wounds from the animal's fangs. [1] Sometimes venom injection from the bite may occur. [3] This may result in redness, swelling, and severe pain at the area, which may take up to an hour to appear. [1] [2] Vomiting, blurred vision, tingling of the limbs, and sweating ...
If there is a low risk of infection the wound may be sutured. [8] Debridement and drainage of bite wounds was practiced in the pre-antibiotic era, but high rates of infection still occurred. A 2019 Cochrane systematic review aimed to evaluate the healing and infection rates in bite wounds based on if/when they were stitched closed. The review ...
Treatment of spider bites includes washing the wound with soap and water and ice to reduce inflammation. [35] Analgesics and antihistamines may be used; however, antibiotics are not recommended unless there is also a bacterial infection present. [35] Black widow post-envenomation treatment seeks to control resulting pain and nausea.
Mikaela Shiffrin sustained a puncture wound to the right side of her abdomen and severe muscle trauma following her crash during a giant slalom race in Killington, Vt., the U.S. Ski & Snowboard ...
There is a puncture wound into the right side of her abdomen and severe muscle trauma,” the statement read. Sarah Stier/Getty. An injured Mikaela Shiffrin on Nov. 30, 2024.
Timing is important to wound healing. Critically, the timing of wound re-epithelialization can decide the outcome of the healing. [11] If the epithelization of tissue over a denuded area is slow, a scar will form over many weeks, or months; [12] [13] If the epithelization of a wounded area is fast, the healing will result in regeneration.