# What the HELL is biting me at night? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 24, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-biting-me-at-night/723355 "2015-06-24T14:27:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-biting-me-at-night/723355/41 "2015-06-25T17:01:14Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > \ It’s a **staph** infection. Short for staphylococcus. Not _staff_. \ No. He had staph from the entire staff. That’s worse than just staph. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-biting-me-at-night/723355/42 "2015-06-25T19:34:39Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > If skin is sloughing off leaving a sore, I would say some kind of spider. Especially if it is painful. It is that time of year, when that spider egg under your bed hatches, and thousands of little spiders swarm out looking for victims. > > Creeped out yet? Per my review of the medical literature: > [@](#): > > Spider bites are uncommon medical events, as there are limited number of spiders worldwide with fangs strong enough to pierce human skin and most spiders bite humans only as a final defense when being crushed between skin and another object. Thus, most lesions attributed to spider bites are caused by some other etiology. My money is on staph infection or damned if I know. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-biting-me-at-night/723355/43 "2015-06-25T19:37:13Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > That does not follow what you described. > > What you state may be the case in a one off situation - perhaps twice, but you described a daily or every other day feeding pattern, so the bites were not self defense. I never said it was daily. It was once. > [@honey](#): > > I had a spider bite me in my bed the other night. It hurt like crazy. I turned on the light in time to see it run away. I never did find it since it was one of those super fast ones. Luckily, I’m not afraid of spiders, I just don’t like being bitten by them. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-biting-me-at-night/723355/44 "2015-06-25T20:08:23Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Per my review of the medical literature: > My money is on staph infection or damned if I know. Dermatology…damnedifIknowology. But yeah, if I had a nickel for every spider bite that wasn’t…I could buy enough colloidal silver to not treat every case of MRSA that isn’t… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-biting-me-at-night/723355/45 "2015-06-25T22:37:20Z")
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