{"id":1643,"date":"2010-01-20T15:42:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2010-01-20T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:42:48","slug":"pet-tarantula-hazardous-to-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/pet-tarantula-hazardous-to-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Tarantula &#8211; Hazardous to Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1642 aligncenter\" title=\"Chilean-Rose-Tarantula\" alt=\"Chilean-Rose-Tarantula\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/chilean-rose-tarantula1.png\" width=\"519\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Chilean Rose Tarantula<\/strong> is considered to be a calm and docile species of tarantula to keep as a domestic pet, however caution should still be taken when handling, they will bite if threatened or flick prickly barbed hairs as a defence mechanisum.<\/p>\n<p>A 29 year old owner of a Chilean Rose tarantula found out first hand when cleaning the glass tank (terrarium) of his pet. His tarantula rubbed its hind legs against its abdomen to dislodge a mist of hairs into the air which hit the owner&#8217;s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Signs and symptoms reported by Dr Zia Carrium of St James University Hospital in Leeds included a red, watery and light sensitive eye. The barbed hairs were too fine to remove using mirco-forceps, in addition to this, the hairs had advanced through to the innermost endothelia layer, causing inflammation of the Cornea and anterior chamber, consequently a regime of intensive topical steroids were applied.<\/p>\n<p>The Chilean Rose tarantula is one of the most commonly imported tarantulas however there are only a few cases reported of this inflammatory reaction termed ophthalmia Nodosa. Tarantula keepers should routinely wear eye protection when handling these animals to avoid potential incidents like this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chilean Rose Tarantula is considered to be a calm and docile species of tarantula&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[424,502,703,1000,2340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}