Located of the brainstem; controls breathing and heartbeat; connects the medulla to the two sides of the cerebellum to help coordinate and integrate movement on each side of side of the body; involved in sleep and dreaming.
Common symptoms of a brown recluse spider bite include shivering, vomiting, nausea, fever, itching, shock and restlessness. The bite may come out as an injury of about 1 to 2 3/4 inches which takes several months of healing and will leave you with unsightly scars. The bite is usually deep and will cause pain eventually.
Some bites may result in severe dermonecrotic lesions but rarely does the bite of the brown recluse generate severe cutaneous skin or systemic symptoms. The systemic symptoms from fiddleback or brown recluse spider bite may include vomiting, fever, rashes, nausea, and muscle and joint pain. Cutaneous symptoms are more frequent than systemic symptoms.