Posted: May 03, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 3
A lawsuit filed in Winnipeg in April alleges a resident of a group home was hospitalized after ingesting a Tide detergent pod stored in the home’s laundry room.(Vera-Lynn Kubinec/CBC)
The operator of a Winnipeg group home is being sued after a resident allegedly suffered serious injury from ingesting a laundry detergent pod at the home.
The resident is a person with a disability from traumatic brain injury and was receiving 24-hour care at the home in west Winnipeg, when he ingested a Tide pod in the home s laundry room, says the lawsuit, which was filed April 19 with Manitoba s Court of Queen s Bench.
Brown recluse spider bites will require medical attention.
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To prevent infection from a spider bite, apply anti-itch creams and topical antibiotics.
Brown recluse or black widow spiders are venomous, and their bites require medical attention.
But, these spider bites are extremely rare, and overall, most spiders do not bite humans at all.
Most spiders, and spider bites, are harmless. There are more than 40,000 species of spiders in the world – and only 12 of the 500 species that bite have venom strong enough to harm humans.
It s important to remember that spiders largely avoid humans. And they usually only bite people as a defense like if you step on one hiding in your shoe.
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