Editing Redback spider (section)

==Historical treatment of bites==
Most traditional or historical first-aid treatments for redback spider bites are either useless or dangerous.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.toxinology.com/fusebox.cfm?fuseaction=main.spiders.display&id=SP00054 |title=Clinical Toxicology Resources |publisher=University of Adelaide |access-date=21 October 2013 |archive-date=21 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021193644/http://www.toxinology.com/fusebox.cfm?fuseaction=main.spiders.display&id=SP00054 |url-status=live }}</ref> These include making incisions and promoting bleeding, using [[ligature (medicine)|ligatures]], applying [[alkaline]] solutions,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23033857 |title=Don't Panic, But Treat Red-back Spider with Caution, Say Venom Experts |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne |date=6 January 1951 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia |access-date=4 September 2013 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019063040/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23033857 |url-status=live }}</ref> providing warmth,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67674357 |title=Red-back Spider |newspaper=Advocate |location=Burnie, Tasmania |date=7 September 1929 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia |access-date=4 September 2013 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019063041/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/67674357 |url-status=live }}</ref> and sucking the venom out.<ref name="autogenerated3"/> In modern first aid, incising, sucking, applying bandages and [[tourniquet]]ing are strongly discouraged.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bites and Stings – First Aid|url=http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Bites_and_stings_first_aid|work=The Better Health Channel|publisher=State Government of Victoria|access-date=21 October 2013|date=September 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021130102/http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Bites_and_stings_first_aid|archive-date=21 October 2013}}</ref> In 1893, the ''[[The Camperdown Chronicle|Camperdown Chronicle]]'' reported that a doctor noticed that a severely ill benumbed victim got much better overnight following treatment using injections of [[strychnine]] and [[cocaine]];<ref name=Camperdown1893/> strychnine had been popular as a snake bite antidote, but it was not effective.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pinto|first=J. E. B.|author2=Rothlin, R. P.|author3=Dagrosa, E. E.|author4=Barrio, A.|title=On the Bite of the Katipo|journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand|year=1900|volume=33|pages=436|url=http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_33/rsnz_33_00_007890.html|access-date=22 October 2013|archive-date=22 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022034529/http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_33/rsnz_33_00_007890.html|url-status=live}}</ref> As of 2011, administration of [[magnesium sulphate]] was reported to have had some benefit though evidence of effectiveness is weak.<ref name="lancet">{{cite journal|author1=Isbister, Geoffrey K. |author2=Fan, Hui Wen |year=2011|title=Spider Bite|journal=The Lancet|volume=378|issue=9808|pages=2039–47|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62230-1 |pmid= 21762981|s2cid=27408940 |type= Review}}</ref>