Snake bite is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in rural India, accounting for an annual age-standardized mortality rate of 4.1/100 000 to 5.4/100 000, depending on the geographic location [1]. Renal failure is common following a viperidine bite; the majority of the patients develop acute tubular necrosis and a lesser number may develop cortical necrosis. Renal lesions apart from acute ...

Snake bite is a major health hazard that leads to high mortality and great suffering in victims. The remedies are of great interest since they may have recognizable therapeutic or toxic effects and are steeped in cultural beliefs that invariably conflict with formal health care practices. The study of the interaction between plants and people is invaluable in discovering new herbal medicines an...

OBJECTIVES Poisonings and snake bites constitute major health-care problems worldwide. This observational study was conducted to identify factors associated with outcomes in such cases and to suggest strategies to improve them. METHODS This is a prospective study conducted in the emergency medicine department of a tertiary care hospital. The study included 102 poisoning and 64 snake bite case...

The family Acrochordidae (file snakes), consists of three extant species distributed over the tropical regions of the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. They are the Arafura file snake (Acrochordus arafurae McDowell), the elephant trunk snake (Acrochordus javanicus Hornstedt), and the banded file snake (Acrochordus granulatus (Schneider)). These snakes feed on fish. They are non-veno...

BACKGROUND The traditional medicinal systems of Indian folklore abundantly use medicinal plants or its derivatives for the treatment of snakebites. However, this traditional knowledge is on the verge of extinction, and there is an immediate necessity to conserve this oral traditional knowledge primarily by proper documentation and scientific authentication. The present ethno botanical study car...

Snake venom poisoning is a common medical emergency and the epidemiological features vary from region to region. We conducted a prospective study to review the epidemiology, treatment and outcome of snake venom poisoning in central Karnataka. Six hundred and thirty three cases of snake bite, seen in a teaching hospital, upto the age of 18 years, over a period of 8 years from 1985 to 1992 consti...

Envenoming from snake bite is an important medical condition, frequently encountered at the emergency department of BPKIHS hospital (Dharan, Nepal). This is a retrospective study of 52 cases of suspected snake bite who presented at the department from August 1993 to November 1994. Analysis of the data showed that snake bite was more frequent between the ages of 11 to 20 years (36.7%) and 2.5 ti...

mission was anything but cheerful, as he was terrified of impending death. His friends, one and all, had collected around the patient and sympathised with him on his fatal misfortune, so that he was far from optimistic. Major Acton, in his lectures on snake-bite, used to say that some deaths from snake-bite were due solely to fear and shock, and with this comment in my mind, I tried to reassure...

Snake bites in persons while they are asleep indoors are associated with a high risk of fatal outcome in southeastern Nepal. The preventive impact of sleeping under a bed net was assessed in four villages in a case-control study. A case was defined as a person with a history of snake bite that occurred indoors while asleep. Cases were matched with controls by village, type of household, sex, an...