How to Deal with Snake's Bite

Be calm, do not panic

Do not panic but stay in calm. Do not run away or jump every where searching for assistance. Any movements can accelerate the spread of poison all over the body and this can be dangerous and fatal.

Drinks to be avoided

If possibly try to identify the characteristics of snake which bit the victim. Do not allow the victim to have alcoholic or caffeine rich drinks. The drinks include coffee, concentrated tea, liquor and liqueur.

Bandage the wound immediately

Use a tourniquet (stop-bleeding bandage) to wrap round the affected area. It should be wrapped up approximately 5 to 10 cm within the affected area. In the case that you could not find for the tourniquet, handkerchief, towel or any clean cloth can be tear out and use as substitution of tourniquet.

While wrapping up the wound, do not tie too tightly; it must allow one finger to go through. The principle is to stop the intravenous and lymphatic from refluxing and at the same time do not interfere the flow of arterial. Loose the bandage every two hours, and each time loosing it for one minute.

If the wound is getting swollen, please recheck whether the wound is wrapped too tight. Try to shorten the time of wrapping up the wound, but make attempt to loose out the bandage more often to avoid tissue necrosis.

Clean the cut area and suck out the poison appropriately

Before cutting out the wound, make sure it is first washed with sea salts, followed by distilled or reverse osmosis water. If possibly, clean the wound with some clear water again.

Before cutting the wound with a plus sign with a disinfection knife, make sure that the poison is being sucked out. Be careful not to use your mouth to suck out the poison instead use a sucking device to suck the poison out. The poison can be fatal to those with infection in the mouth if someone uses his mouth to suck or lick directly on the victim's wound.

Go to hospital immediately

If you are confident that the snake's bite is not from a poisonous one, then you do not have to send the victim to the hospital; otherwise it is always the best solution to send the victim to the hospital immediately for further treatment.