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Snake bite poison |
| Overview Symptoms Treatment |
| Home Treatment: |
| If within 40 minutes of an emergency room: Remove any restrictive clothing, rings, and watches. Have the patient rest. Keep the patient warm. Get the patient to the emergency room as soon as possible. If further than 40 minutes from an emergency room, see the injuries document on snake bite for further information. |
| Before Calling Emergency: |
Determine the following information:
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| Poison Control, or a local emergency number: |
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A call is probably not necessary unless summoning an emergency vehicle, as the patient should be seen in an emergency room to determine if the bite contains any poison. Some snake bites are from nonpoisonous snakes, but 20-30% of the bites from poisonous snakes do not actually inject poison into the wound site and can therefore be treated as a puncture wound. |
| What to expect at the emergency room: |
Some or all of the following procedures may be performed:
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| Expectations (prognosis): |
| If treatment is obtained soon enough, only a small percentage of those bitten by a poisonous snake die. |
Snake bite on the finger |
Snake bite on the finger |
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