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<\/p>\n'Britain\u2019s most dangerous spider' has left a rapper with a leg swollen \u201clike a balloon\u201d after a 'revenge' studio attack.<\/p>\n
Shane Parmenter, 36, suffered a \u201chorrific\u201d bite from a noble false widow which has rendered him unable to work both physically and mentally. The rapper from Chelmsford, Essex, explained he was 'attacked' by the vicious bug in a music studio after he failed in an attempt to squash it. <\/p>\n
Having fallen asleep in the studio, Shane whose stage name is MC Napz, woke up to a stinging sensation and the sight of a spider bolting from his body. Shane said: \u201cMy mate was laughing his head off. He said \u2018it's gonna come back and do ya\u2019 and I was like \u2018yeah alright\u2019.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe ended up both falling asleep in the studio, and I felt something in the night bite me. It felt like a bee sting. When I woke up in the morning, I felt another big sting, and then a false widow ran out of my trouser leg. Pretty much straight away it all went red, it was a bit uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt got a whole lot worse. My leg swelled up like a balloon. I felt sick, I felt nauseous, I was dizzy, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following advice from the NHS 111 helpline, Shane drew around the bite with a pen so he would see if it was swelling \u2013 but his injury quickly outgrew the markings.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt went from a little mark on my leg, to massive \u2013 it just kept getting bigger and bigger, more swollen and swollen. You could see that it was getting infected.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital, medics cleaned and dressed the wound, and gave him a course of antibiotics. But the musician would have to re-dress the wound time and time again as it continued to ooze through the bandages.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI had about four or five of them put on, and literally within 24 hours of it going on, it was filling up \u2013 I'd take them off and it'd burst. The worst it got was: one night, I was sat on the toilet and I felt it just go \u2018pop\u2019 and I felt it seeping through the pad \u2013 it was dripping down my leg.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI took the pad off and it was just literally horrific: blood and big lumps of pus oozing out of my leg. It was so painful.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bite has also unleashed a wave of mental health anguish for Shane, and impacted on his work with his record label, D&B Politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really hard to cope with,\u201d he said. \u201cNot being able to go to work and not being able to do my side-job, or even sit at my laptop and do my promotions and release some music. \u201cI've got my own studio so I like to get really creative in the studio, but I couldn't think straight.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt's made me a bit shook of spiders. I wasn't scared of spiders before but I definitely damn well am now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The noble false widow is \u201cwidely regarded as the most dangerous spider breeding in Britain,\u201d according to a 2020 paper by Clive Hambler, an Oxford University zoologist. However they\u2019re unlikely to attack unless provoked or trapped between clothes and skin.<\/p>\n
Now Mr Parmenter is speaking out to warn others to leave them be. He said: \u201cThey're the sort of spider that if you just leave them alone, they will not even bother you. \u201cMy advice to other people would be: if you find a false widow in your house, leave it.\u201d<\/p>\n