During rainy season and just before that we do get lots of snake bite victims from the near by villages.Majority of cases do not give a definite history of bite, hence its up to the clinicians who have experience can spot the diagnosis.Cobra bites on provocation, but the common krait (Picture)bites without.The zoological name is-BUNGARUS CAERULEUS.It's one of the deadliest snake of the world.This person was bitten while he was asleep.When he did not get up from bed in the early hours of the morning, his wife called the relatives and brought him to Ayush hospital where i work.For me there was no difficulty to know that he needs anti snake venom and respiratory support.He did regain his consciousness after 36 hours and told us that he was bitten by some thing in the right shoulder but the local pain was very little, hence he did not disturb any one.He recovered and gave me permission to publish his photographs. The snake was not killed due to superstitions.The only treatment for snake bite poisoning is ASV(anti snake venom)+ respiratory support, in case of neurotoxic poisoning.There are other types of snake bite but that is beyond the scope of my blog.
Along with the Dengue epidemic and malaria cases we do get lots of snake bite cases through out the year but mostly in rainy season as mentioned earlier.
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