A mum feared her daughter would be left paralysed after she was bitten on the lip by a false widow spider in her sleep - leaving her unable to move her legs.
Phoebe-Lee Matthews, from Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, woke up last month with a strange black dot on her lip which was initially believed to be a wart or impetigo.
Two days later, her mum, Rachel Wilson, spotted an "unusual-looking" spider on the landing, which she believes was the false widow that bit her 10-year-old daughter.