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re: Snake bites.....how many of you actually know anyone....
Posted on 10/4/12 at 12:58 am to choupiquesushi
Posted on 10/4/12 at 12:58 am to choupiquesushi
A lady my mom knows got bit by one a week or so ago. I heard my dad talking about it saying the hospital bill to the ins was 72,000 for the anti venom stuff they needed. 
not sure what kind it was though
not sure what kind it was though
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Posted on 10/4/12 at 6:22 am to SpicyStacy
My Mom was bite by a Rattlesnake many many years ago. No problems other then one hell of a scare on her ankle. This happen in 1943.
Posted on 10/4/12 at 7:01 am to fishfighter
72 k for snakebite, considering they will charge you 29.50 for ibuprofen.....no surprise....
And yes cane break beer is pretty dog gone good
And yes cane break beer is pretty dog gone good
Posted on 10/4/12 at 10:41 am to choupiquesushi
Posted on 10/4/12 at 12:05 pm to hardhead
My neighbor at the camp got bit on her foot by a copperhead a few years ago. Everyone was too drunk to drive her to the hospital so one of the group is a chiropractor and told her to elevate her leg and put ice on it. After a few hours they decidedto call the hospital and ask them what to do about it. They said "whatever you do, DO NOT ELEVATE IT AND DO NOT PUT ICE ON IT!!!!!" 
. He is no longer the source of medical advice at the camp.
. He is no longer the source of medical advice at the camp.Posted on 10/4/12 at 12:57 pm to Loanshark
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DO NOT ELEVATE IT AND DO NOT PUT ICE ON IT!!!!!"
I really thought that you are supposed to put ice on the bite area until you can get to proper medical treatment??? I have been under the impression that the ice caused the venom spread to slow down? Aside from a tourniquet, what IS the recommended field treatment for a venomous snake bite? I figure BP will definitely know since he treats a lot of snakebite victims.
Posted on 10/4/12 at 1:05 pm to BFIV
A buddy of mine was bit when he was 16 or so by a water moccasin. He went to the hospital and they gave him an iv and antibiotic and watched it for the night. It was just really swollen and discolored, but he recovered soon after.
Posted on 10/4/12 at 1:24 pm to choupiquesushi
He said he has been bitten hundreds of times.
Posted on 10/4/12 at 1:26 pm to Dylan
Next door land owner's (to our TX lease) wife was bit by a coral snake 2 yrs ago. Hospital bill was over $100k. She had a heart attack after they gave her the anti-venom (Hospital in San Antonio).
Posted on 10/4/12 at 4:35 pm to Nawlens Gator
first time hearing of coral snake bite, very small mouth. Was stepping on a 3 1/2 ft. canebreak last year in Tensas my nuts hitting me in the back of my skull lifted me about 3' backwards. No bite.
Posted on 10/4/12 at 4:49 pm to BarDTiger81
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Richland Parish Hospital
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In Raytown? He lived?
That's what i was thinking when he wrote that.
Kinda like Caldwell
Posted on 10/4/12 at 6:33 pm to BFIV
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Aside from a tourniquet, what IS the recommended field treatment for a venomous snake bite?
When we brought my son in, his arm was pretty much blue from the tourniquet. Doc told us to take that off ASAP. He said unless you have the tourniquet on within 8 seconds of the bite (the time it takes blood to leave the heart and return to the heart) it's completely useless. More often than not, the venom doesn't enter the blood and just causes tissue damage.
Posted on 10/4/12 at 6:48 pm to hardhead
Posted on 10/4/12 at 6:48 pm to LSULANE
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coral snake... No bite.
Good thing, too. No antivenin in the US for that, or so I've read on Wikipedia.
I've never known anyone bitten, but I had a rattler strike at my ATV one time. My friend was ahead of me on the trail and apparently ran over him and pissed him off. As I passed him he struck at the ATV. One of those big fat SOBs, too. Saw the fangs on him and about shite myself. That snake haunts my dreams.
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