Bacteklfi70ru isolatedfrom the venoms and mouth cavities of Costa Rican snakes suggest that secondary bacterial infection following snakebite is a realpossibility. No one treatment strategy can be expected to completely control all infections; but the results suggest that in emergency situations administration of penicillin combined with a broad-spectrum antibiotic such as chloramphenicol or te...

Snakebite is a conflict between venomous snakes and humans as well livestock considered neglected tropical disease. The present study aimed to investigate the hospital prevalence, clinical hemato-biochemical aspects of hemotoxic snakebite in bovines. overall prevalence bovines was found be 0.93%. Highest observed August month during monsoon season female with higher cases buffaloes. highest occ...

This communication presents an account of usage of 13 species of plant in the treatment of Snakebite by the tribals of Orissa, Botanical name, family, local name and Sanskrit name, if available of the plants along with mode of administration and place collection of the claims are enumerated.

Neurotoxic snake envenomations are frequently encountered in medicine emergencies. Here we report a case of snakebite who presented with neuromuscular paralysis and respiratory failure, showed full recovery after effective treatment. Patient however developed cerebellar ataxia possibly due to delayed neurotoxicity of venom.

A case of envenomation due to viperine snakebite poisoning is presented. Patient showed continuous defibrination, without any other signs of poisoning, which could not be reversed with more than double the usual dose of polyvalent antivenom. This phenomenon could be due to envenomation caused by a snake, probably from Viperidae family, which is not covered by the polyvalent antivenom available ...

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE Neurotoxic snake envenomation can result in respiratory failure and death. Early treatment is considered important to survival. Inexpensive, heat-stable, needle-free, antiparalytics could facilitate early treatment of snakebite and save lives, but none have been developed. An experiment using aerosolized neostigmine to reverse paralysis suggests how early interventions coul...