Archive for the ‘Snake bite’ Category

What do we need to know about treating snake bites?

As you are well aware, snake bites can be fatal, and signs and symptoms shown up relatively quickly and affect vitals body functions within minutes. Both snakes that you mentioned are of the deadliest in our country, and appropriate medical attention is needed urgently. Our suggestion is that if there is a snake bite, that [...]

Green Mamba snake bite woman fighting for her life

An elderly woman, thought to be a Siberian National, bitten twice by a Green Mamba while crossing Umdloti Link Road is fighting for her life in the Netcare St Umhlanga Hospital. It is alleged that the woman had been crossing the road near a local shopping centre when a car passing by ran over the [...]

Netcare warns against African Puff Adder

A 27 year old man is in a serious condition after been bitten by a Puff Adder on the Spitkop farm between Kimberly and Petrusburg this morning. It is believed that the man was spraying poison in a field when the Puff Adder struck him on the right leg. Farmers raced the patient to a [...]