Snake bite is a common cause of hospital admission in Sri Lanka. Despite this, there have been no countrywide studies or national estimates of disease burden due to snake bites in Sri Lankan hospitals. We assessed the disease burden due to snake bite in our hospitals and estimated the frequency of admissions due to bites by different snake species. Sri Lanka was divided into four zones based on...

A snakebite is an injury caused by a bite from snake, often resulting in puncture wounds inflicted animal’s fangs and sometimes envenomation. Venom may cause complex condition that can be local damage, neuromuscular dysfunction, or systemic vascular damage leading to hemolysis. The main of mortality morbidity snake bites neurotoxicity, the neurotoxicity sudden paralysis. Synthesis, packaging, t...

Snakebites can present local or systemic envenomation, while neurotoxicity and respiratory paralysis are the main cause of death. The mainstay of management is anti-snake venom (ASV), which is highly effective, but liable to cause severe adverse reactions including anaphylaxis. The types of adverse reaction to polyvalent anti-snake venom have not been previously studied in Bangladesh. In this p...

The boy stated that at about 8 P.M. as he stepped out of his house, which is near a well, he felt that something had given him a sharp bite on the back of the right foot. On looking round he found that it was a snake and shouted to his sister who killed it. He did not trouble about *oing to hospital as the people living in the neighbourhood said it was a harmless snake. Soon after the bite he f...

Snake-bite can be both life and limb threatening, especially when there is envenomation. Early intervention in a fairly equipped health facility can go a long way in preventing the morbidity and mortality that can result from delay in initiating treatment. In this paper we report two cases of snakebite to the lower limbs in children that were both complicated by gangrene which led to major limb...

The incidence of snake bite and the presence of venom antibody in previous snake bite victims was investigated in French Guiana. The incidence proved to be highest (600/100,000) in inhabitants of bush regions and lowest (45/100,000) in urban areas. Of 43 sera tested for specific venom antibody 22 (51%) were positive, and most of these individuals suffered severe or moderate poisoning. The main ...

BACKGROUND Every year many dogs in Sweden are bitten by Vipera berus, the only venomous viper in Sweden. This prospective study investigated clinical signs, some biochemical parameters, treatment, and progress of disease after snakebite in 53 dogs. Effects of treatment with and without glucocorticoids were evaluated. METHODS All fifty-three dogs bitten by Vipera berus were examined the same d...

back. She mentioned that she was going to hold a wire post when the snake caught her round the left forearm and gave her a bite on the left hand. She felt the sensation of a needle pricking and that was all. No sooner had the animal inflicted its wound than it disappeared again. On examination.?There were two fang wounds on the left thenar eminence half an inch distance from each other. These p...