Snake bite with strange skin lesions.

1Associate Professor and Consultant, 2Professor, Consultant and Head, 3Senior Resident, 4Post Graduate, Deptt. of Medicine, Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi Received: 16.02.2011; Accepted: 12.06.2013 A 22 year old female presented in casualty with snake bite and queer lesions all over her body. On further questioning what came out to light was really unbelievable. This patient, a villager, while doing household work was bitten by a snake, on her finger. The snake was hidden in the stacks of dung cakes (used as fuel). The wound bled for almost 5 minutes with some local burning sensation. Two or three strictures were applied on the limb and the victim was taken to a person who was “reputed to diffuse snake poison”. This healer made hundreds of I cm (approx.) long nicks, with an ordinary blade all over the victim’s body ‘to let the poison out’ and some paste was applied on these cuts. When the patient’s condition deteriorated, she was asked to go to hospital. Snake Bite with Strange Skin Lesions