Death Adder bite on Sydney woman

[tickerbox]

I saw this in the paper this morning and thought about a VERY similar incident that occurred to one of my daughters...

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I think that this lady was very lucky to have been "scratched" but not envenomated. Close call! :shock:

 

[reptilezac]

Lucky Lady!

 

[HarleyD]

wow! yeah man VERY lucky lady...Those things really pack a wallop!

 

[Stuart]

Lucky lady, but I had to lol at their stab at sounding intelligent...

The scratch came from its fangs - one of the longest sets in snakedom - and the spray was its venom.

 

[sd1981]

The spray wasn't its venom, it was the lady peeing herself after a very close call.....

 

[reptalica]

The spray wasn't its venom, it was the lady peeing herself after a very close call.....

Either that or the adder lifted it's tail on her.....

 

[saintanger]

very lucky indeed.

 

[-Peter]

Doesn't sound like she peed herself. Its not a bad report for a change and the snake was released unharmed by Sydney Wildlife.

 

[saratoga]

I wonder how commonly sydney snake catchers get called to relocate adders?

 

[-Peter]

I wonder how commonly sydney snake catchers get called to relocate adders?

Not a lot, couple of times a year at best. Then they are often in areas that the caller wouldn't acess normally anyway. Occasionally they have turned up inside homes. This has happened a couple of times on the Nortern Beaches.

 

[Dinger]

Mate in Darwin was mowing his lawn in bare feet (as everyone does) & got wacked by one ,the day before we had all done a first aid course so when i arrived he was bandaged from foot to thigh.The problem was they gave him a hybrid anti whatsyacallit which made him crook but he was ok eventually.

 

[prodigy97]

Mate in Darwin was mowing his lawn in bare feet (as everyone does) & got wacked by one ,the day before we had all done a first aid course so when i arrived he was bandaged from foot to thigh.The problem was they gave him a hybrid anti whatsyacallit which made him crook but he was ok eventually.

there goes $30,000

 

[Firepac]

Mate in Darwin was mowing his lawn in bare feet (as everyone does) & got wacked by one ,the day before we had all done a first aid course so when i arrived he was bandaged from foot to thigh.The problem was they gave him a hybrid anti whatsyacallit which made him crook but he was ok eventually.

Not doubting your story but it does sound a little odd. If they had followed protocols and swabbed the bite site the SVDK should have indicated the correct AV to use. In the case of Death Adder bite - Death Adder AV. Not sure why he would have been given polyvalent.

 

[Ninety3]

People will instinctively wash/rub clean the bite area if they arnt trained properly in how to treat the bite. That makes the venom id swap useless.