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A builder was hospitalised for four days and underwent two operations after he was bitten by a false widow spider.

Steve Davies needed 12 stitches and almost lost his thumb when his hand swelled to twice its normal size as venom spread up his arm.

Plastic surgeons had to peel back the skin from his thumb to remove the poison after the 45-year-old was bitten for the second time in a year.

‘My hand just swelled up with all the poison and it was incredibly painful and double the size,’ Mr Davies said. ‘It honestly felt like it was going to explode.

‘The plastic surgeons said I was lucky not to lose the thumb because the poison had gone into the muscle.

‘They had to knock me out to slice it open in a huge zig-zag shape and peel back the skin like a banana to get to all of the poison.

‘But they had to leave it all open so they could get back in the next day to check for more, and I was in hospital for four days.

‘All that for a tiny spider bite – I couldn’t believe it.’

Mr Davies, from Muswell Hill in North London, received his first false widow bite on his finger in August last year while working in a garden.

He went to hospital when his hand swelled up and was given intravenous antibiotics to fight the infection, which was cured within a few days.

In August this year, he was again bitten on his right thumb while clearing out a shed.

‘I felt it this time straight away and I knew what it was this time – it was very painful,’ he said. – Dailymail

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