A Nottinghamshire mum has described the "shocking" moment that a small insect bite on her daughter's hand grew so large that she ended up in hospital for nearly a week. Sasha Godsman, seven, spotted a spider while she was at school and decided to pick it up and put it outside through the window.
The insect bit Sasha on Thursday (July 6) and when she initially went back home, the bite mark was very small and she was not showing any other symptoms. But by the next day, the bite was so swollen that her mum took her to a local walk-in centre.
They advised the Aspley family to go to their GP, who said that they needed to go straight to A&E because the bite had gone septic. Sasha ended up in the Queen's Medical Centre for nearly a week, developing Strep A during her stay due to the infection from the bite.
