Viper Bite in a Lebanese Child

A three year old female patient, previously healthy, who presented to the Quarantine hospital, Beirut, Lebanon after being bitten with a snake two days previous. The girl was in the family garden in Akkar when a black snake bit her on the upper third of the lateral side of her left leg. The parents applied a tourniquet around the girl’s leg, excised the wound and suctioned the venom. However, when the girl’s leg became swollen and edematous, she was admitted to a hospital in Akkar, where she received two doses of anti-venom and tetanus vaccine. The patient started to vomit and her leg worsens so she was transferred to the Quarantine hospital after three days of antibiotics treatment with no improvement but deterioration.