Sensitive souls refrain ! Woman wakes up with foul sore, finds out cause days later

It is not only in tropical countries that insects can leave indelible scars. In the small port town of Poole, England, a 27-year-old young woman can attest to this. This restaurant manager named Kayleigh Ward was woken up in the middle of the night after being bitten by a terrifying spider: a false widow. According to his testimony, the spider would have slipped through the window of his room before striking him a bite as big as a golf ballwhich had disastrous consequences.

The next day, Kayleigh Ward’s arm had tripled in size and a mountain of pus was leaking out of it, as evidenced by the photos she shared at the Daily Mail. Logically rushed to the nearest hospital, doctors gave her antibiotics before giving her blood tests revealing a serious spider bite. But caregivers let her go home with just a prescription for medication. And there, everything got worse.

“Pus came out of the wound for more than thirty minutes”

“Three days later, my arm continued to grow. I begged my sister to squeeze out the fluid that was starting to ooze from my arm. I put a hot water bottle on it to bring it to the surface, and it sank for over thirty minutes…“, she told the Daily Mail, which covered this unusual story in England. But a week later, Kayleigh Ward is still complaining of severe pain and a lump in her arm. She intends to be hospitalized so that this nightmare becomes only a memory.

For information, the spider in question is a false widow. This species is said to have arrived in the UK by freighter in 1987 and is used to returning to houses to cool off in early summer. The false widow spider is Britain’s most venomous spider and holds orange paws with a skull-like mark on the abdomen. An unsupported bite can be fatal.