Sunday, November 30, 2008

Snake bite

oh my, it's been a while i didn't write here.. (I'm not fond of writing anyway..)

This time, I wish to tell some pranks on Snake Bite (have i wrote this before? or is it DeJaVu..?!)

snake bite at hand
Snake bite on arm


Snake Bite can only happen when a snake bite (of course, silly me!) - but some snakes need not to do so - they might as well spit their venom direct to the prey's eyes, or just attack by wrapped the prey (like phyton (ular sawa) did).

According to what i understand (as a really stupid student), snake venom, depend on their type, has several effects to human

  • Unstoppable bleeding at biting site[normal bleeding for human no matter how big their 'scratch' is around 1-9 minutes (check your doctor for more info)], - the venom either block or activate several components responsible for stopping the bleeding
  • Weak - the venom spread out to whole body using blood system as their transport, then they block signals coming from the 'wiring' (neurons) that connect to muscles in body - specificly, the junction between muscle & end wire (known as neuromuscular junction). Untreated venom can cause paralysis. Even worse, death due to neuron death in brain (really?!)
  • blurred vision - also happen when the venom 'travel' to eye blood vessels - they blocked the signal coming from eye's nerve slowly
  • low blood pressure - lesser pumping force from heart because heart's electricity is also slowly blocked by venom
  • drowsiness

Most of hospital or clinics may have the suitable venom to treat the snake bite patients. If found a 'lucky' person being bitten by a snake & he become unconscious in seconds, don't waste time killing the snake - life saving comes first..

type of snakes from http://brianlean.files.wordpress.com
Types of snakes found / known at least

I really lost a lot of info to write here - i'll try to update this again anytime..

sorry for borrowing the picture without permission. :(

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