Do some of you really have Cobra's

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

You know that's something I've often wondered about when people keep hots. Do you have to keep the specific anti-venom in your home to accompany you to the hospital? I wouldn't think just any regular ER has a wide variety of anti-venoms for the variety of hots available on the market.

We used to live in Michigan. I always thought it incredibly odd that MI has rules up the ying yang with regards to things like wolf-dog crosses but you can buy a gaboon viper off the internet and keep it without any permit needed at all (at least where I lived in northern MI you could).

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I believe anti venom, is too expensive for people to just stock all the time, it also doesn't have a long shelf life if my memory serves me correct. The hospitals would stock it if it were in a hot snake hot spot. Like texas, FL, CA the hospitals often stock viper antivenom because the chances of someone comming into contact with a hot even in the wild is high on its own.

~mike

Here is a list of ALL the antivenom The Miami Dade Fire Rescue keeps in stock.
http://www.miami-dadefirerescue.com/...php?storyid=13

That's a good stock! They even have Gabby and Bushmaster antivenoms!
Here's the page(same site) for info on who to call if you get bitten.

Heres a few pics from www.venomousreptiles.org photo gallery of snake bites. Read
the captions for more info
Cobra Bites
http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libr...e/452?offset=4
http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libr...1232?offset=35
Viper Bites
http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libr.../554?offset=14
http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libr...2648?offset=54
http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libr...3359?offset=67
http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libr...3563?offset=68
http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libr...4343?offset=77
http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libr...1968?offset=48
Not something to mess around with thats for sure

:eek: :eek: :eek: Those last two are.... ughhh. :puke:

I remember seeing a picture of a bite at a serpentarium where the flesh and muscle on the forearm had totally been eaten away, leaving bone exposed. :eek:

I believe it. Hemotoxins are serious flesh eaters. I think its Dr. Sean Bush that always says, "Time is tissue"

More cobra bite pics!!
http://www.venomsupplies.com/exoticc...uthiabite2.JPG
http://www.venomsupplies.com/exoticc...uthiabite3.JPG
http://www.venomsupplies.com/imagenkaouthiabite1.JPG

I'm glad I finished my lunch before I found those pics. :O

I'm glad I didn't eat lunch today :)

I'm glad I dont eat at all... just walk around with an IV in my backpack... (jk of course):P