Young mother opens package and gets stung by scorpion

A young mother from Marburg experienced a shock when she was stung by a scorpion that had hidden in a package. The incident caused her great fear, but fortunately the scorpion was not fatal.

A 25-year-old single mother from Syria, who has been living in Marburg (D) for about a year, experienced a shock when she opened a package. In the package that she received on the evening of October 30th, in addition to the clothes she had ordered and a scale, she also noticed a scorpion, as RTL reported.

As she was about to take out the box with the scales, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her hand. The scorpion had stung and the young woman panicked.

Despite her fear, the woman managed to ask a neighbor for help. While the neighbor cared for the baby, the mother cut open the puncture site to drain the gift – a technique she learned in Syria.

“Scared when I leave the house”

Another neighbor killed the scorpion and called 911. Dr. Ina Schulze, a doctor, later explained that it is often enough to suck out the gift or cool the area, as cutting it open carries the risk of infection.

At the hospital it turned out that it was a Chinese scorpion, which is not particularly poisonous. Doctors compared the sting to a wasp or hornet sting, which can cause nausea and dizziness but is not life-threatening. The young mother was lucky that she did not have an allergic reaction to insect bites.

Despite the all-clear, the 25-year-old suffers from ongoing fears. They stopped breastfeeding as a precaution, worried that the gift could be passed on to their baby through breast milk. The incident left a deep scar on her and she no longer feels safe in her own home. “I’m afraid when I leave the house and when I come back,” she says. The thought of the scorpion haunts her and she cannot forget the incident.

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