Not exact matches
6/9/2008
Snakes in San Diego: Potent, Powerful Venom Cause for Concern UC San Diego Toxicologist Offers Summer
Bite & Sting Advice For the second year in a row, UC San Diego Medical Center toxicologists are reporting unusually powerful
snake bites and unusually extreme patient
reactions to those
bites.
The condition, called immune - mediated hemolytic anemia, is often hereditary, but can result from a
reaction to medicine such as acetaminophen, an injury such as a poisonous
snake bite, or from an infectious disease.
Used for acute inflammatory and allergic conditions such as:
snake bites, vaccination
reactions, blood transfusion
reactions, bee strings and insect
bites, and the management of itchy skin Used in the treatment of mast cell tumors Useful in the treatment of motion sickness Causes drowsiness, so may be used as a mild tranquilizer Readily available and inexpensive What dogs / cats should not take this medication?
Our most common diseases or injuries include: gastroenteritis, parvovirus, gastric dilatation and volvulus, foreign body ingestion, dystocia, pyometra, seizures, back pain or intervertebral disk disease, vestibular disease, lacerations, abscesses, allergic
reactions,
snake bites, various toxins (including rodenticides, permethrin, drug ingestion, and ethylene glycol), trauma, renal failure, congestive heart failure, feline urinary obstruction, diabetics management, neoplasias, head trauma and coagulopathies.
A small
bite mark may be from a
bite or other injury; with this level of
reaction I would be concerned with a possible
snake or spider
bite (would be dependent on your location); any suspected
bite mark could have been swabbed for a venom test to see if it was from a venomous animal.
Chickens might run around for a moment after their head is cut off, but
snakes have a
bit more of a serious
reaction to decapitation; there are cases of
snake heads still
biting people up to 90 minutes after removal from the body.