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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 188914" data-attributes="member: 29323">I was looking on google to see what I could find out about allergic reactions to tarantula bites. Lots of medical people talk about it with words like potentially & possibly. But none seem able to back up their claim that it could happen. As I could not find a single account of an allergic reaction, even from those claiming it is possible. But I did find lots of maybes, which feels reasonable.I also the following on the Mount Sinai website. I believe they are in  New York?Which all looked good until I got to the bottom of the page..So this medical information includes information we know is factually wrong. Death via a tarantula bite is not rare, it is unheard of &  it mostly takes a week to recover!! Again this is factually inaccurate. So  the allergy information is now in question, as they clearly know nothing about tarantula bites.Looking around it does become clear, how little is known about tarantula bites. So the evidence seems to be allergic reactions could potentially happen, but no medical evidence for an allergic reaction currently exists.</blockquote>