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Everybody loves superhero movies but sometimes kids can’t tell fiction from reality and three brothers were hurt because of that.
The three brothers from the town of Chayanta, Bolivia, were hospitalised after being bitten by black widow spiders, thinking it would make them superheroes.
Aged eight, 10 and 12, the three brothers came up with the idea of letting themselves get bitten and developing super powers when their mother went out to collect wood.
The mother returned home to find her sons crying after they were bitten by the taunted spider and took them to the health center to be treated.
Black Widow spiders are reportedly 15 times more venomous than a rattlesnake and can do serious damage and be fatal to children and the elderly.
The boys had developed muscle pains and spasms, abdominal cramps and increased heart rate when their mother found them and had to be transferred to a hospital in Llallagua followed by a Children’s Hospital in La Paz after their conditions failed to improve.
The brothers suffered from muscle pains, sweating, fever and generalised trembling and did not stop until they were treated with an effective serum.
The Head of Epidemiology of the Health Ministry, Virgilio Pietro, reported that the boys were allowed to return home after five days when their health improved.
He also urged parents to help children understand and tell fiction and reality apart because “for children everything is real, films are real, dreams could be real, and they (children) are the hope of our life.”
Hopefully the brothers will know that movies are fictional and that spider bites will not give them superpowers!
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