First aid at a snake bite
99 % of stings in the Orenburg region are necessary on steppe vipers and only 1 % on stings of the exotic snakes brought to a zoo or a serpentarium for the maintenance. Therefore we will not be engaged in the description of stings black mamby or a royal cobra, and we will describe the first pre-medical help at a sting of our steppe viper.
The fact of a sting not noticed does not remain: during the first moment the severe pain and not passing burning sensation in a sting place is felt. Two small red points (sometimes - one if at a snake the tooth is broken, or the sting is made by lateral blow) speak about a lesion. The hemorrhage of crimson or cyanotic colour passing in more or less expressed puffiness Shortly develops. Later there can be a headache, a nausea, vomiting, sight disturbance. The lethal outcome is observed seldom - basically, at children or persons of advanced age or the subjects having serious chronic diseases. The sting in the person is especially dangerous.
Now the help:
1) the Victim is necessary for abirritating and laying as soon as possible. To make it it is necessary for the following reason - a dominating way of diffusion of a poison lymphogenous (on a lymph), on the second place - hematogenic (by birth). Any movements of the victim lead to intensifying limfo - and a blood flow and, as consequence - to acceleration of diffusion of a poison;
2) the Rhetorical question on that to pump out or not to pump out a poison from ranki. The majority of experts tend to the first variant. Therefore as soon as possible to rinse the amazed place water and with the maximum involving force of a mouth to try to pump out a poison. I guess that procedure not from the pleasant. During procedure to do massaging by arms of area of a sting in a direction to ranke.
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