? I know how to take care of fish but that is just for antibiotics.Most of the time for Copperheads the hospitals won't give anti venom! I can't really reveal how to get prescription drugs without a prescription!!
Does anyone know a natural remedy for snake bite in humans or animals?
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1. Get some pigs snake problems solved.
2. In South America they have had good luck using tasers on snake bites and these are very poisonous snakes. Check with an expert on this before trying the taser. You put the taser right on the bite. You want one of them hand held models that you can put right on the bite.
I hear ya. We got antibiotics without a prescription - I'm sure I'll find something. Prednisone is crucial to have - it saved me a few times. I read that anti-venom is in short supply.tMost of the time for Copperheads the hospitals won't give anti venom! I can't really reveal how to get prescription drugs without a prescription!!
I wonder if you can take MSM - that's sulfur.
That's unusual. I wonder if the electric charge somehow prevents the venom from traveling or else detoxes it somehow.
That's what they say. Articles that I read said dogs and some people had been bitten and no anti-venom was available and getting to a hospital was impossible so people used a taser because they had no choice and it stopped the venom and the dogs and people lived with no side effects. But like I said check with an expert on this but if there is no other choice what have you got to lose.
That's really interesting if that really works..I wonder how much charge n how long . The only tasers I am familiar with will light you up like a Christmas tree ..Definitely not something you can administer solely upon yourself but maybe civilian types are less charged?
Definitely would need a good friend to stick a tazer on afresh bite wound n tell them to light me up sister..
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one could always live where the snakes are two legged and refer to them selves as government, I will take bears and cougars thanks
That's really interesting. I'm going to research it. I'm looking into dog breeds that kill snakes and want a good remedy just in case. Look at this pit kill a snake. This may be a good dog to get:
Thanks for the laugh. That's true enough.
More snakes in this country are killed by house cats than almost any other animal. Cats are seconds faster than any snake.
I heard about a man who saw two snakes fighting one being a rattler. I think they said the other was a bull snake, not sure. The nonvenomous got bit by the rattler and went over to this plant and ate a couple leaf's, every bite and it would eat more. Then the plant was used up and no more around and the snake died. He was asked if he went to see what the plant was and said no!!! First thing I would have done is to identify that plant. This was in Arkansas in a field for dairy cows. Some of you southern folks might have a better idea.
Sounds like typical internet horse crap. Someone comes up with a wack story and 20yrs later its internet gospel. Repeated over and over having absolutely no basis in science. I concur with the following from our national institute of health... Basically they are saying there hasn't been a single published study showing benefit of stun guns with venomous bites.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11434486/
During the past 2 decades, articles suggesting that stun guns be utilized to treat venomous bites and stings have appeared in both the lay and medical press. Although never widely considered to be standard therapy for venomous bites and stings, stun guns are still considered to be a treatment option by some medical practitioners and outdoor enthusiasts. A Medline search was performed using these terms: venomous bites, venomous stings, snake bites, spider bites, electrical, stun gun, high voltage electricity, low amperage electricity, direct current, and shock therapy. Articles selected included laboratory-based isolated venom studies, animal studies, and case reports involving humans in which a stun gun or some other source of high voltage, low amperage direct current electric shocks were used to treat actual or simulated venomous bites or stings. We concluded that the use of stun guns or other sources of high voltage, low amperage direct current electric shocks to treat venomous bites and stings is not supported by the literature.
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Of note... electricity is used to stimulate black widow spiders and scorpions when milking them for venom.
Totally agree!! My cats have gotten bit, but they kill them!!
Even Mongoose are bitten occasionally. Everything slows down with age.
Yep, that's how I got bitten last year!!
The blurb under your avatar says you are in the North East. So you are near a hospital. My plan for snakebite in that area of the country would be to have 3 or 4 of the closest hospitals to your home in my phones contact list. Their address, and phone number. So you know how to get to them (Google Maps of their address) and you can contact them ahead of time to tell them you're on your way with a snake bite victim. I would also try to find out how to communicate a photo to the hospital ER (call them and ask before a snake bite happens). So you can send a picture of the snake if you managed to get one. Also learn how to ID the snakes near you - both venomous and non-venomous - so that you might know on your own the type of snake that bit. If you can ID the snake as non-venomous, then the fear level can ratchet down 10-fold. You only really have to be concerned about infection in that case. That is not urgent and in need of a race to the hospital. You do want to get it evaluated, but you don't need a 100mph reckless drive to the hospital in a panic.
On the way to the hospital keep the victim calm. I would probably leave the bitten extremity dependent (hanging down). No tourniquet or constricting band. As a matter of fact, loosen any clothing in the bite area and "upstream" from that (towards the heart). There may be significant swelling and you don't want snug clothing to inadvertently become a tourniquet. No ice - well, maybe ice - I don't really know anymore. Field treatment of snake bites has changed over the decades since I was taught. So what I just recommended in this paragraph may be outdated now. So do you own research into this. But seek out reliable medical resources on the internet, not "Jim Bob's Snake Lovin' Blog". None of this stuff I've said sounds like "treatment". But keeping the victim calm and going to the hospital IS the field treatment.
As far as natural treatments ... I think that would be great to learn about. I don't have any knowledge about this aspect of snake bite treatment, but our resident expert @Peanut would be the one who's phone number I'd want on speed dial for that info. But IMHO, natural treatments are probably most useful after the SHTF when we don't have functional hospitals any more. Of if you were trapped somewhere and could not travel to a hospital. Even if you have to drive an hour or two or three to get to a hospital (and I can't imagine it would be anywhere near that long in the heavily populated North East), that's still "close" IMHO. Call ahead - make sure the hospital you are considering can handle snake bites. Tell them what kind of snake it was, or send a picture, and tell them about how long it will take you to reach their location - so they'll be as ready as they can be when you walk in the door (having secured anti-venom, etc.) Most snake bites in the USA are not fatal. Very few are. But still, damage can be done to body tissues and victims can get quite sick when bitten by US snakes. So you do want quick and productive treatment.
We inherited a cat with the property but she never comes to the house - she lives in an old barn on the property. She's very skittish - I think due to the coyotes.
I read that mongoose are illegal to own - I wonder why.
If your powers of observation are as good as you think they are you would have read that I said "our MOVER told me we have copperheads."
We were still living in the northeast when I joined this site. We moved to a very rural area. I never even thought of poisonous snakes but I got to chatting with one of our moving guys who said that if we have water on the property then we have copperheads - he was a hunter.
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You can get your dog a rattlesnake vaccine.
I have to research to see if we have rattlers. I know we have copperheads.
No idea.
