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[bigguy]

Hi,

While cleaning my cages at 11.30 PM on Friday night, I had the pleasure of a love bite from one of my adult Red Bellied Blacks. I was just extracting a poo from the front of the enclosure, and before I even realised what was happening he fired out of his hide box some 50 cm's away and chewed on my hand. I actually had to force him off my hand. It was a good feeding bite.

The bite site was bleeding well, so I went to the laundry and quickly washed off the venom on the skin. I then sucked the site numerous times, washing my mouth at the sink after every time. I then applied a pressure bandage and continued cleaning. I went to bed at 1.30 am and at this time I had a very painfull limb indeed. I was awoken by my wife at 7am when she noticed I had a bandage on. Boy did she chew me out for not letting her know the night before.

I had a very swollen hand and arm at this time, and once I started walking around I became very dizzy and nauseated. I spent the day resting at home. I never thought of taking a picture till today(monday morning) . The swelling has now nearly gone but you can easily see the fang marks in my hand. It appears it bite twice as I had two sets of fang marks at the base of my finger.