Spider Tourist's Skin - An Australian tourist said he felt "violated" when he found out that a poisonous spider had been living inside his stomach for three days after it entered through an appendectomy scar. The horrific spider tourist's skin incident took place during the tourist's trip to Bali with friends.
Now known as "Spiderman" to his friends and family because of the spider tourist's skin event, 21-year-old Dylan Thomas reportedly went back from his trip to Bali with an unexpected souvenir.
According to The Telegraph, Thomas went home to Bunbury in Western Australia and encountered unusual pain in his stomach.
At first, Thomas felt the searing sensations along his stomach. However, he remained uncertain of the actual cause, not in any way thinking that the spider tourist's skin occurrence was to happen, reports The Examiner.
"It wasn't really a tickling sensation, obviously once the venom started to affect my skin it was a really burning sensation like a searing feeling," Thomas told local radio station Radio 6PR.
Thomas then noticed a long red mark on his stomach, making the situation worse.
The pain got so intense and he eventually went in for a check-up at Bali International Medical Centre, learning about the frightening truth about the spider tourist's skin incident.
The red line on the tourist's chest and stomach began to blister already.
"I knew for a fact I hadn't done anything or come into contact with anything to make it worse.
According to the Inquisitir, more thorough hospital tests were conducted into the spider tourist's skin incident.
Medical experts were shocked when they found out about the spider tourist's skin occurrence; an eight-legged arachnid was somehow able to enter the Australian through his scar and directly to his stomach lining.
At the time, there was already a red scar running from his navel the middle of his chest. Apparently, it was the spider venom which created the blisters on his stomach.
"The original two doctors that I saw had no idea what it was," Thomas told 6PR. "They called in a specialist dermatologist, and the dermatologist was able to swab it and work out that it was from a spider [that had come in through my appendix scar], then called in a couple of other specialist from I don't know where."
"They actually managed to pinpoint where it had gone in and pull it out," he added.
Eventually, the unwanted arachnid was quickly removed and the persistent arachnid was identified as a venomous species.
The spider tourist's skin occurrence is a rare and unusual event that could happen to any tourist. Meanwhile, the dead spider is awaiting tests for further identification.
This article is copyrighted by Travelers Today, the travel news leader
