WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES: Mum tells how her childs leg looked like it had been eaten away from the inside. more photos of how this spider looks like
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Brave Ella Williamson had a huge eight-inch blister on her leg
after the venomous spider sank its teeth into her flesh as she played at her dad's home.
The three-year-old was taken to hospital by her mum Bobbie-Louise Willis two days after the bite when the blister tripled in size.
Mrs Willis, 24, from Dover, Kent, said:"It was the worst time of my life. I thought something was eating her from the inside. It just kept getting bigger.
"She wouldn't let me touch it. So she must have been suffering in pain. I would hate to see anyone go through what she went through."
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Bobbie-Louise first noticed Ella had a small blister when she returned home on March 22, and took her to hospital the next morning after the bite doubled in size.
Bobbie-Louise, who was pregnant with Ella's half-brother at the time, three-week-old Oliver, said: "She was given antibiotics and sent home, but the day after it had tripled in size and looked like her leg was being eaten away.
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"We waited for a skin specialist, who said it was a false widow spider bite.
"She couldn't walk and had to be carried everywhere. It was horrible to see my daughter in that way."
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It took a month before the nasty scabbing started to get better, and three months for it to heal completely.
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Bobbie-Louise, who caught a false widow a year before the attack, said: "I always used to put spiders outside, but after seeing what Ella went through I would definitely kill one straight away now."
False widow spiders, which are frequently confused for the deadly black widow, are set to invade British homes in the coming weeks due to warm weather.
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