'Spider bite has left me scarred for life'

Mum issues warning after four-month recovery

- HELEN LE CAPLAIN and PAIGE OLDFIELD

A MUM says a bite from a false widow spider has left her needing four months of treatment.

Tracey Carse, from Stockport, believes the creature crawled under her duvet and bit her while she slept leaving a 50p-sized wound on her thigh.

She woke up to find a painful-looking open sore on her right thigh that was red and inflamed.

While attending a dermatology appointment, the 50-year-old was urged to go to A&E and get the bite, believed to be from a false widow spider, checked out to prevent sepsis.

At hospital, the wound was assessed and a course of antibiotics and cream was prescribed to tackle the infection.

But the mum-of-one was horrified to discover the 'disgusting' bite had turned necrotic a week later - leaving her with a patch of blackened dead flesh that a nurse dressed weekly.