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How are venomous snakebites treated?

Call for emergency help right away if you have been bitten by a snake. Responding quickly in this type of emergency is vital. While waiting for emergency help:

Wash the bite with soap and water.

Keep the bitten area still and lower than the heart.

Cover the area with a clean, cool compress or a moist dressing to ease swelling and discomfort. If the bite is from a coral snake, consider applying some firm pressure directly over the wound with a clean cloth and your hand.

Watch breathing and heart rate.

Remove all rings, watches, and constrictive clothing, in case of swelling.

Note the time of the bite so that it can be reported to an emergency room healthcare provider if needed.

If possible, try to remember to draw a circle around the affected area. Mark the time of the bite and the first reaction. If you are able, redraw the circle around the site of injury, marking the progression of time.

It’s helpful to remember what the snake looks like, its size, and the type of snake if you know it. Tell this to the emergency room staff.

Don't apply a tourniquet. This will cause more damage. It actually worsens your outcome and makes it more likely that you could lose your arm and or leg. That is because it keeps all of the toxin in one place and gives it more time to cause damage. It also cuts off blood supply to any healthy tissue, causing more damage.

Don't try to suck the venom out. Doing this will only introduce infection and cause more damage.

Don’t apply ice.

At the emergency department you may be given:

Antibiotics to prevent or treat developing infections

Medicine to treat your pain

A special type of medicine (antivenin), depending on the type of snake that bit you and the severity of your symptoms

Souce : Johns Hopkins

Nigeria keeps disgracing us on all fronts!

It's hard defending this country

Nigeria with series of problems, may God help us...everything na aporo epa ijebu.
If you say na on of them snake bite now, antidote must show

Before you look for first aid always fumigate your surroundings and make sure you plant anti snake flowers around your personal house.
First aid can then come

Prevention is better than cure

Information is key, we only learn from the white but dragged head as if we are better than them

Make una allow these snakes rest naaaaa

I haven't really seen anything important here

So snake bite can be dis lethal to d extent of offing a full human being within very short time

Nigeria Nigeria

It is well

I won't even allow it bite me in the first place. I hate that reptile with passion.

Only corruption is taken seriously

RIP to the woman who died as a result of Snake bite on Saturday.

Snake threads on front page boku... today.

SmartPolician:
Nigeria keeps disgracing us on all fronts!

It's hard defending this country

Most people won't understand what you are saying

Nigeria is a FAILED nation..

And people were blaming the hospital for removing the torniquet.. illiteratez are the most vocal online

Long process for Nigerians. The end goal is still "at the hospital."

Hospital no get antivenom sir.

NaijaGoBetter2:
Before you look for first aid always fumigate your surroundings and make sure you plant anti snake flowers around your personal house.
First aid can then come

Prevention is better than cure

Pls any name of any anti snake flower?

Freshandfitpod:
Information is key, we only learn from the white but dragged head as if we are better than them

So you saying we weren’t curing snake bite prior to meeting the White man?

Y’all just always anxious to say something.

Lastly keep the snake for me cos I must chop am when I return from the hospital

I think say I go see, Eat plenty onions, garlic, bitter kola, red oil...

They taught me these things in primary school...


Some of you only regard information or anything coming from outside. I don't know if it is inferiority or slave mindset.


Just imagine someone saying Nigeria disgraced them just because of this. Even if Nigeria teaches you won't listen or regard the knowledge!

Release the snake inside Senate house

omoredia:
Chai! Epstein still dey learn oo. See Mallam and abomination

Comrade, you go really like vawulence Ooo.

nairalanda1:
How are venomous snakebites treated?



Souce : Johns Hopkins

Is this helpful? Is this helpful?

This is nonsense, I don't know why we Africans will always allow foreigners to confuse us as if we don't have an age long tradition.

If someone is beaten by a snake, just do this and everything will calm down:


Give the person an onions to eat,

Then use a charcoal to place on the spot where the snake has beaten the person and watch as the charcoal takes the poison out of the body of the person and after about 20 minutes he will be very fit to go his way.

🙏🙏🙏

Also, mix bitter cola with fuel and spray around your neighborhood.

Invest in cats. I repeat, GO BUY CAT.

Fumigation is important from rodents and pests. Clear tall grasses and apply herbicides.

Make sure your floor tiles or rug is white, so that you can see anything.

May Nigeria never happen to us.

God bless all good and sane Nigerians.

APC supporters, may God forgive you.

Astromania:
So snake bite can be dis lethal to d extent of offing a full human being within very short time

That’s a Cobra for God sake!

The whole First Aid narration is when you few miles away from the hospital. If Cobra strikes one in Ikorodu, that person will be dead before he makes it to the Island under normal conditions.

MEGAWATCH:
This is nonsense, I don't know why we Africans will always allow foreigners to confuse us as if we don't have an age long tradition.

If someone is beaten by a snake, just do this and everything will calm down:


Give the person an onions to eat,

Then use a charcoal to place on the spot where the snake has beaten the person and watch as the charcoal takes the poison out of the body of the person and after about 20 minutes he will be very fit to go his way.

🙏🙏🙏

Saved. Saved. Saved. Saved.

TheStoriesOfMan:
Saved. Saved. Saved. Saved.

The essence of the onion is to dilute any of the poison that has already entered the body of the victim and to prevent it getting to the heart.


🙏🙏🙏

Astromania:
So snake bite can be dis lethal to d extent of offing a full human being within very short time

Fun fact...


Some spiders are more lethal than snakes. Also scorpions!