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An Australian hospital is begging snakebite victims to stop bringing snakes to the ER
Once the new shelf-stable oral universal venomous snake bite treatment is commercially available I bet the Aussies are going to stock up on it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hospital-...102732107.html
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Re: An Australian hospital is begging snakebite victims to stop bringing snakes to th
When I was bitten by a snake as a kid, the emergency room doctor was disappointed that I didn't bring the snake with me. I told him it was a garter snake, but he wasn't comfortable relying on the identification of a 10 year old. He didn't treat me though. I suppose his observation that I wasn't writhing in pain was enough to convince him that I wasn't bitten by anything venomous.
Last edited by Homebody; 04-23-2024 at 10:55 PM.
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A garter snake sent you to the ER? They have some pretty big garters where you live, apparently....
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Re: An Australian hospital is begging snakebite victims to stop bringing snakes to th
![Quote](images/themes/default/misc/quote_icon.png) Originally Posted by Malum Argenteum
A garter snake sent you to the ER? They have some pretty big garters where you live, apparently.... ![Wink](https://ball-pythons.net/forums/images/smilies/wink2.gif)
My mom trusted my identification even less than the emergency room doctor.
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When I was about that age, I got my first bite from a wild snake (eastern milk snake). I didn't exactly know what kind of snake it was. Anyway, the bite was really minimal but it was such that it looked a little bit like two punctures. I pretty seriously thought I was probably going to die from being envenomated, but I wasn't at all freaking out about it. I was just sitting and thinking about what it might end up being like, and wondering how long it would take.
Kids can be pretty weird; I'm glad I'm done with all that.
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