Características clínicas do araneísmo em crianças e adolescentes no município de Chapecó, Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil

Abstract

With the objective of verifying the frequency and characterizing of accidents involving people bitten by spiders in Chapecó town, Santa Catarina State, from 1995 to 2001, this paper was held. The study is descriptive and exploratory. This way, we verified the registrations of noted by the epidemiological department from 1995 to 2001 being able for us to calculate the frequency of incidents. For the 1995 population we used data from the 1991 Brazilian Geographic Statistic Institute (IBGE) census adding a 3.35% growth a year, on the other hand for the following years it was used the 1996 and 2000 census with an annual 2.84% growth. In Chapeco occurred 30 accidents with spiders during the studied period, being the most expressive part of it caused by spiders of the genera Loxosceles. The body's most bitten parts were thigh/legs, foot/toes and hand/fingers. The main clinic alterations presented by the patients were pain, edema and erythema. The case of spiders biting men is increasing in Chapecó.