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geoffm@netcom.com (Geoff Miller) wrote:



>decastro@netcom.com (Richard A. De Castro) writes:

>> The vast majority of injuries related to snakebites in the US are
>> caused by overeager application of various snakebite remedies, the worst
>> of these being the discredited "cut and suck" method that is so
>> popular with the folks who carry those Cutter's Snake Bite Kits.  I have
>> photographs of injuries that have resulted in massive tissue necrosis, and
>> loss of limb, from those damned kits, as well as some fools idea to put
>> an icepack on to hold down the swelling.

>Would you mind elaborating on this?  The principle behind the kits 
>certainly seems reasonable enough: to remove the venom in order to
>limit the damage that it can do.  And it also seems reasonable enough
>that even an incomplete attempt to suck out the venom would be better
>than leaving it in, and thereby doing nothing to limit the exposure of
>blood an tissues to something that is rather unambiguously Not Nice.

I was tought in the camp fire girls NOT to use the bite and suck
method over 15 years ago, so it's not a new development. I
think,personally, that I'd rather have the occasional snake than the
Haunta virus.

my 2 cents
Maven