Ischemic stroke consequent to snake bite

Snake bite.

Snake bite is a common and frequently devastating environmental and occupational disease, especially in rural areas of tropical developing countries. Its public health importance has been largely ignored by medical science. Snake venoms are rich in protein and peptide toxins that have specificity for a wide range of tissue receptors, making them clinically challenging and scientifically fascina...

Snake-Bite

The Global Snake Bite Initiative: an antidote for snake bite.

Clinicians have for a long time witnessed the tragedy of injury, disability, and death from snake bite that is a daily occurrence in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To many people living in these regions, including some of the world’s poorest communities, snake bite is an ever present occupational risk and environmental hazard, an additional penalty of poverty. Like malaria, deng...

Posterior circulation stroke in a young male following snake bite.

Neurological deficits can occur following snake bite. It is usually due to intracerebral haemorrhage or subarachnoid bleed as a result of depletion of clotting factors. A healthy 14-years-old male developed bilateral ptosis and altered sensorium within 3 hours of snake bite. CT Brain revealed bilateral cerebellar and right occipital infarction with mass effect. Clotting time and bleeding time w...

Chronic Snake-Bite

lnS season) or during egg-laying period then the victim is bitten repeatedly during that period every year, and in worse cases even on the same dates every month. Some persons allege the bite is^ influenced by particular phases of the moon. It is said that during that period a particular type of smell is emanated by the victim which attracts male snakes exactly as if they would be attracted by ...