A venomous katipo spider bite on his noodle was the high price a tourist paid for a skinny-dip at a Northland beach.The 22-year-old Canadian left his clothes in the sand dunes while he went for his nude swim and slept on his return, according to a report on the case in today's online NZ Medical Journal."He woke to find his noodle swollen and painful with a red mark on the shaft suggestive of a bite. He rapidly developed generalised muscle pains, fever, headache, photophobia [light sensitivity] and vomiting," wrote Dr Nigel Harrison and colleagues who treated him at Dargaville and Whangarei hospitals.By the time the man reached Dargaville Hospital, his noodle was severely swollen, his blood pressure was up and his heart beat racing.Chest pain and other symptoms developed the next morning and it was presumed he had been bitten by a katipo. He was treated with anti-venom medicine and rapidly improved.
By the time the man reached Dargaville Hospital, his noodle was severely swollen, his blood pressure was up and his heart beat racing.
Who needs viagara...Oh you know somebody was going to go there eventually...
''hurry honey, suck out the venom!"
This response to the article gave me a chuckle:The Ballad of the KatipoAs I went out one morning all along the sandy duneit did take my fancy to remove my hose and shoonThere being no other soul in sight I took off my trews as welland plunged my naked limbs into the Northland briney swellAfter a fine frolic among the white billowI back and lay down with a dune as me pillowa dune as me pillow and fresh air for a sheetaway up in Northland that's not indiscreetAlas I did wake with an ache and a halfand a bright red suggestive bite mark on me shaft'that looks like Max factor' I mused all aloudand looked round for a lass with such lipstick endowedThen I started not feeling so terribly grandand tossed up me breakfast all over the sandmade me way, as folks do when they're feeling quite illto the fine big infirmary in DargavilleWhen I reached the hospital me heart it did raceme blood pressure up and me knob grown apacefor there in the waiting room who should I spybut a ruby lipped lassie a winking her eyeNow the doctors who treated me all of them sworethat they'd seen my condition a few times beforethey concluded a spider had bitten me salamanderand that's what had made me all anxious and sickWell there's some say that science explains everythingfrom the growth of your nails to the width of your ringAll I can say certain to finish this songnext time I'm in Northland me togs are staying on.
