There is a saying that a person who swallows eight spiders a year in his sleep should immediately locate where the person is and stop him. I don't know if the story is true, but it's enough to make me want to swear never to sleep again for the rest of my life, or to sleep with a space helmet, but there's some truth to that.
Spiders like warm, dark places, and your mouth does meet those conditions, and as disgusting as it sounds, if the story is true, then swallowing a spider seems harmless; but what if that's not the case? What happens if you swallow a spider that is not only poisonous but also the most venomous spider in the world? Please, don't try this at home, or in your office ice rink or mall or anywhere else, please don't try this, don't eat a poisonous spider that's alive, did I make it clear? Very good.
This little furry monster is called the Sydney Funnel Web Spider, and if you want to show off your knowledge, its scientific name is "atrax robustus". Like many, many other, many of the most dangerous wildlife on the ground, this poisonous spider is from Australia, and by the way, when did people decide to list Australia as a tourist destination? Even the cutest animal there, the koala, has an aggressive side. What about kangaroos? These overgrown tooth and beast may look elegant and dignified, but their legs are not just for jumping. Timid people, don't go over there for a vacation. At least for kangaroos you have to go deep inland and do everything you can to them off, but sydney funnel web spiders prefer door-to-door service, and their natural habitat may be under rocks or under fallen trees, but this spider can also be in your home.
Let's say your home is within 160 kilometres of Sydney, Australia, and if you don't live within that range, I have good news for you: if so, well, I think you can always move. The good news is that these spiders can be up to five centimeters long and are notoriously timid, so it's unlikely they'll be accidentally swallowed by you. I also have a hard time believing that someone would want to voluntarily swallow a spider, so what would happen if you took a big bite of the world's most venomous spider?
Well, it will depend on whether it is still alive and when it enters your esophagus. Sydney funnel web spiders can hold their breath all day, and sometimes they can survive in the water for up to 30 hours, and with that in mind, I'm not betting that the spider will run out of air as it enters you, in which case your biggest concern will be the possibility that the spider will bite you as it enters you. Sydney funnel web spiders are very disliked to be touched, their large and powerful fangs are large and powerful enough to squeeze a hole in your fingernails, and worse, as it may get worse, Sydney funnel web spiders are not the kind of spiders that run away after biting people, they will dig deeper with their poisonous fangs and stay there all the time. The venom of the Sydney Funnel Web Spider is a very dangerous special fluid that can attack the nervous system of a prey, and since neurotoxins begin to shorten your nerves, a series of symptoms will appear after a few minutes of being bitten. After being bitten, your blood pressure spikes and your heart beats faster, followed by you feeling difficulty breathing, muscle spasms, and tingling in your mouth. Eventually, the venom begins to affect the brain, causing the bitten person to lose a sense of direction and eventually lose consciousness, all of which occur just 15 minutes after the initial sting.
If the bite is on your foot or hand, you can buy yourself some time by tying a hemostasis on the injured limb, after which you need to seek medical help immediately, depending on the severity of the symptoms, you need to perform 2 to 12 injections, the good news is that compared to being bitten, the injection may feel like being rubbed with wet noodles. Unfortunately, if the bite is in your throat, then using a tourniquet won't help you in any way, and I don't think it's surprising that the idea of wanting to risk eating dangerous food is not surprising, after all, people will fly over the ocean and spend thousands of dollars just to eat a bite of puffer fish meat, which is so dangerous that even the Emperor of Japan has been banned from eating it. What about you? Looking for a puffer fish adventure? I heard it was heavily regulated, but I wasn't sure if I would want to take such a risk. Back to the point, suppose you swallow a Sydney funnel web spider and manage to keep it from biting you, what if that's the case? What happens next?
Surprisingly, there won't be as much as you might think, a spider is like a baby cow, just twice as many legs, with lots of eyes and fangs, and a segmented chest and abdomen. For your stomach, meat is meat, and spiders can be digested as easily as anything else, so what about poison? It's still in your body isn't it?
First of all, there is a difference between poison and venom, and the average person may use these two words interchangeably, but this wrong use will make biologists crazy, and it must be funny that you can try it in front of a biologist. Seriously, when you eat something and get sick, you can say that the thing itself is poisonous, but when you get sick because you are bitten, you can say that the thing has venom, maybe there are many spiders with venom, but no one has ever found spiders that are very poisonous in themselves, and it is dangerous for venom to enter your blood, but it is harmless to swallow venom. Still, I can't imagine why anyone would want to do this and how it would be possible to do it, perhaps these people found an unlabeled bottle somewhere in the lab, reiterating that usually small children are not allowed in the lab, and I can't think of anyone else who would want to drink such a bottle of science juice. Even if our hypothetical non-existent spider killer happens to have a stomach ulcer, it may be possible that there is no danger. The human stomach is a large bag full of hydrochloric acid, and mucus can prevent it from digesting the ego.
Hydrochloric acid quickly dissolves all the proteins in the spider's venom, so it will appear inert once it comes into contact with hydrochloric acid. Great, if so, I hope this epic brave article not only inspires you, but also hopes that this article will have a chance to take it lighter, again, please don't try this at home or anywhere, although some of your family members will not be victimized by such reckless behavior, I am referring to your dog here.
Dogs are voted the most likely animals to eat non-food, and it turns out that most mammals are completely immune to the venom of Sydney funnel web spiders, and only invertebrates and primates are more vulnerable, for any other animal, it is like being stung by a bee. Cats and dogs frogs are fine, I can prove that a monkey named Pete will go to the hospital once bitten by a poisonous spider, and maybe there will be worse cases, interestingly, if a beetle is bitten by a poisonous spider, it will have the opposite result, their response is not muscle spasms, insects and arachnids will react completely paralyzed, some people may think that this means that spiders do not want to hurt humans, but I don't feel as if all the creepy reptiles in Australia want humans to leave Australia. And we are still doing our best to achieve this goal.
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