Can Triamcinolone Acetonide cream be used for spider bites? My wife got a spider bite(brown recluse spider bite) and the doctor gave her this crap that i think doesn’t work.. I went to walgreens and found Campho-Phenique for incest bites. Do you guys think this would work better?
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I don’t believe so. It says this cream is a corrective type of topical for an illness. Im not a doctor I just looked it up. You can as well. Here; http://triamcinoloneacetonidecream.net/
Good Luck!
I think what your doctor recommended is better than anything you will buy over the counter at Walgreens. It is recommended to NOT apply anything with camphor or phenol to a brown relcuse bite, and to also not apply heat. Read about triamcinolone acetonide here.
http://www.drugs.com/triamcinolone.html
If she has had a brown recluse bite, the wound often requires debridement, elevation, and immobilization of the body area – rest. Cool compresses help slow the action of the sphingomyelinase D which is the protein that scientists believe is responsible for the major wound that can happen with a brown recluse bite.
These sites have some rather alarming and disturbing pictures of brown recluse bites, but it also has good information.
http://www.brown-recluse.com/bitephotos.html
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/spider_bite_brown_recluse_spider_bite/article_em.htm