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A five-year-old girl has been left unable to walk after waking up covered in a rash head to toe following a bite from a noble false widow spider. Lily Hodgson complained of a painful ankle before her face became itchy by bedtime. Her mum Genna Hunt thought it was a reaction to food and gave her antihistamines. But during the night Hunt woke to find her daughter covered in rashes. She said: I woke at 3am as Lily felt hot next to me. I put the light on and nearly screamed at her poor face. I woke her up and she was covered in this strange rash literally head to toe. The worst it got was whe