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Bites and stings in this chapter covers common encounters: mammalian bites, which include good first aid and wound care, including a decision to use antibiotics or not and rabies vaccine; spider bites, which ranges from local wound care concerns with brown recluses to the use of antivenin with the black widow; tick bites, which includes safe tick removal and a consideration of tick paralysis and Lyme disease; wasp and bee stings with a concern for allergic reactions, scorpion stings, and local wound care plus decision-making regarding the use of antivenin for bark scorpions, snakebite includes local wound care plus for pit vipers and coral snakes a consideration of antivenin and weighing risks benefits of this treatment; and marine animals including jellyfish, coral stings, and stingrays which may include soaking in hot water to disable enzymes present in the sting plus good local wound care. Concern about tetanus status should always be part of the evaluation.

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  1. Department of Family Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport, Alexandria, LA, USA

    Brian Jobe

  2. Department of Family Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA

    Laeth S. Nasir

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  1. Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Paul M. Paulman

  2. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Robert B. Taylor

  3. Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Audrey A. Paulman

  4. Department of Family Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA

    Laeth S. Nasir

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Jobe, B., Nasir, L.S. (2022). Bites and Stings. In: Paulman, P.M., Taylor, R.B., Paulman, A.A., Nasir, L.S. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54441-6_54

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