Pampho hairs driving me insane

[Smotzer]

Hopefully you’ll find some new homes for them and you’ll replace them with new non-itchy kritters!
Like crabs and pdfs!

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Sorry to resurrect this but funny enough Theraphosa hairs don’t affect me at all, but pamphos, brachypelma, and some tilitocatl(albopilosum) are the bane of my existence.

Also I’ve made the decision to rehome my Ts, which sucks because my sp Duran are all getting their big, adult colors, but my god I can’t do maintenance now without being itchy for a few days after

I managed to keep my Ts because my nhando coloratovilus died of old age and I’m not that allergic to much else. I had a terrible reaction 12 years ago nearly had to get rid of every t. Do you keep other pets ?

 

[Lynn57]

Does anyone else have this issue? My arms, hands, even legs and feet break out multiple times a day on a daily basis because of their hairs. I really love mine but my god the hairs are driving me insane. I’m thinking about getting rid of them because my hands are almost always scarred because of the itching, and I was wondering if anyone else experienced something similar?

I don't understand how? Are your hands in their enclosure's or ??

 

[xenesthis]

I don't have issues with my Pamphos.
1) Don't jerk their enclosures around when doing maintenance.
2) Slowly take off their enclosure top (if top-opening) without creating a vacuum effect when doing maintenance.
3) Use a very fine misting water bottle spray lightly over their abdomen to suppress urticating hairs from flying up.
4) Use a good Hepa machine in your spider room.
5) You calm. It calm.
The above has worked for me successfully for over 37 yrs in keeping this genus.

 

[Ratmosphere]

I don't understand how? Are your hands in their enclosure's or ??

Some people are really sensitive to hairs. Sometimes just the wind from opening the enclosure can cause disruption to hairs, causing them to become airborne.
Happens a lot to me with my Pamphos, Theraphosas, and Nhandus.

 

[Lynn57]

Some people are really sensitive to hairs. Sometimes just the wind from opening the enclosure can cause disruption to hairs, causing them to become airborne.
Happens a lot to me with my Pamphos, Theraphosas, and Nhandus.

Oh wow! I didn't realize that.

 

[Smotzer]

Oh wow! I didn't realize that.

Some more non-requested educational information about urticating setae reactions for you:
It’s important to note that the more sensory exposure or sensitization you have to the irritating setae the worse the reaction becomes overtime with repeated exposure. So in the case of the OP they basically have developed a higher immune, an almost allergic, response to the urticating setae; which now has made it near impossible to avoid increased reactions to the setae moving forward.

The best thing for many folks is to really try and avoid coming in repeated skin contact with the setae in the first place by wearing some personal protective wear like long sleeve shirts and gloves when dealing with species or genera that are big kickers and or with notoriously “bad” urticating setae.

 

[mantisfan101]

I have had really bad allergies to roaches(the frass and exoskeleton) and I recently discovered I'm highly allergic to arthropod venom(wasps, ants, and centipedes), so go figure. Seems like it was only time before the hairs caught up to me. For whatever reason though I find that despite supposedly having the worse hairs, Theraphosa are very tame compared to pamphos. I woke up today with extreme itchiness again on my hands and feet(sometimes i've had rashes from allergic reactions spread), and it's been lingering all day.

In regards to

I don't have issues with my Pamphos.
1) Don't jerk their enclosures around when doing maintenance.
2) Slowly take off their enclosure top (if top-opening) without creating a vacuum effect when doing maintenance.
3) Use a very fine misting water bottle spray lightly over their abdomen to suppress urticating hairs from flying up.
4) Use a good Hepa machine in your spider room.
5) You calm. It calm.
The above has worked for me successfully for over 37 yrs in keeping this genus.

I wish I had the space for a separate insect room...someday

 

[xenesthis]

In my 3 decades experiences with hundreds of different types of Ts, there very, very worst T for urticating hair is Theraphosa apophysis. Nothing else comes close. Nothing.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I have had really bad allergies to roaches(the frass and exoskeleton) and I recently discovered I'm highly allergic to arthropod venom(wasps, ants, and centipedes), so go figure. Seems like it was only time before the hairs caught up to me. For whatever reason though I find that despite supposedly having the worse hairs, Theraphosa are very tame compared to pamphos. I woke up today with extreme itchiness again on my hands and feet(sometimes i've had rashes from allergic reactions spread), and it's been lingering all day.

In regards to


I wish I had the space for a separate insect room...someday

pampho of mine has the weakest urts of any t I have.
I rarely get haired except during rehousing and I put gloves on. I wash the outside of my cages also to keep them from building up.