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What Causes Red Bumps On Stomach Which Looks Like Spider Bite?

I think I may have gotten a spider bite 8 days ago. I m not really sure what it is. When it happened it felt like something was biting me. It is on my stomach. When it first happened it looked like bright red individual raised bumps. Very quickly, within minutes, the redness spread so the individual bumps were all connected with redness in between them. I have a group of three bumps and a group of four bumps. They do not itch. Every once in a while they hurt a tiny little bit. I used Clobetasol Propionate Cream USP 0.05% for 6 days. It didn t seem to be helping, so I started to used Hydrocortisone Valerate Cream USP 0.2% cream for 2 days. The areas do not seem to be changing in appearance.
Thu, 2 Jul 2015
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you have already started steroid.people think of spider but it happens tobe herpes zostershould have shown to doctor then started medication. may be it requires only caladryl lotion application. can take only tab levocetrizine 5mgtabdaily. wait for some time it may go. you have already started steroid so there will be masking of symptoms. tapper off steroid.
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What Causes Red Bumps On Stomach Which Looks Like Spider Bite?

you have already started steroid.people think of spider but it happens tobe herpes zostershould have shown to doctor then started medication. may be it requires only caladryl lotion application. can take only tab levocetrizine 5mgtabdaily. wait for some time it may go. you have already started steroid so there will be masking of symptoms. tapper off steroid.