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Insect Bites

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DogPsyche

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I'm hoping someone will be able to find the answer to this, but are diabetics more at risk from insect bites? I found a suspected false widow spider in the house (compared it with info / pics on Natural History Museum site) today & I'm wondering how a bite from one of these might affect me.
 

Good question, and I don't know whether the insect (or spider) bite itself is worse for diabetics. But I do know that since having diabetes any insect bites seem to get infected very easily and then the infection has run riot, needing a course of antibiotics to clear it up.
 
Not quite on the same lines but if there is any thing around that bites it is always me that gets it I wonder if my blood tastes better because I have more glucose in it as a diabetic?
CAROL
 
carty said:
Not quite on the same lines but if there is any thing around that bites it is always me that gets it I wonder if my blood tastes better because I have more glucose in it as a diabetic?
CAROL
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I'm the opposite... I never get bitten. Or if I do, I don't get a reaction.


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