It is often seen in Indian movies where cobras dance with the "sound of the flute", not to mention how magical! However, in the Pangasinan Province of the Philippines, there was an unexpected accident, a man who claimed to have tamed cobras and was immune to snake venom, tried to kiss the snake, and the cobra bit its tongue.
Shortly after paramedics arrived at the scene, the man, who had run out of breath and heartbeat, was declared dead on the spot, and doctors said that by the time they arrived, the man had begun to freeze.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" how poisonous is the cobra >, bite the man in one bite, and even have no chance to rescue it? </h1>
Cobras are a species of cobra family under the family Cobra, and they are collectively known as cobras. Cobras are relatively large, most adult body length is more than 1.8 meters, and all members are poisonous, which has a rather troublesome problem, cobras are large, the amount of venom is very large, or highly poisonous, this bite down, really must die?
There are generally four kinds of snake venom, namely blood circulation toxin, cytotoxin, neurotoxin and mixed toxin, blood circulation toxin will cause wound swelling, stiffness, bleeding, lymphadenopathy, increased body temperature after spread, rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, and finally mouth and nose bleeding, blood in the urine, heart failure to die.
Cytotoxin attacks the person's casual muscles, there is no pain, and there is an incubation period, up to 3 hours, but soon muscle weakness, soreness, eyelid drooping, etc., the heart and kidneys are seriously damaged, and death can be achieved in a few hours at the shortest.
Neurotoxin symptoms are also not obvious, but systemic symptoms may occur within a few hours, with muscles trembling all over the body, foaming, difficulty swallowing, difficulty breathing, and eventually death.
Mixed toxins combine the above symptoms, so venomous snakes are very terrible, if not treated in time, many venomous snakes are fatal!
What kind of cobra venom is it?
Cobra venom is a neurotoxin, mainly based on post-synaptic neurotoxins. Binding to N_ acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) at the neuromuscular junction prevents the chemical neurotransmitter acetylcholine from binding to the receptor, thereby blocking muscle excitation, with the main manifestations described above.
Generally bitten by a part of the human body, you can use restraint, cleaning and other ways to reduce the venom into the body, as well as delay the spread of venom throughout the purpose, but the Philippine brother poured good, tried to kiss the cobra, the result of the cobra six relatives do not recognize, directly catch the tongue is a bite.
The amount of venom in the eye snake is large, the blood vessels in the tongue are also very rich, and it is very close to the heart, and it is difficult to use the method of delaying the venom, so by the time the doctor arrived at this remote Filipino village, it was already cold, and the corpse zombie was a very unfortunate event that would happen soon after death!
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Most of India's snake tricksters are from the Irula tribe of Tamil Nadu, and when they blow the mysterious flute, the colorful cobras will dance, this tribe has a very long history of snake taming, in the southern Indian village of Wadanemeli, the Irula people wearing silver salon shirts directly grabbed cobras with their bare hands, and it seemed that they did not have to worry about being bitten by snakes at all.
The Irula people say that snakes are only interested in survival, and if we move in a way that provokes snakes, then the snake will feel that humans are a threat to them and will definitely be attacked, but if we act in another way that does not threaten snakes, then we will not be attacked! If we stand still, the snake usually crawls away directly.
Irula people have caught snakes since childhood, so they are very familiar with the habits of cobras, the possibility of being bitten by snakes is extremely low, and there are many friends who say that cobras have a relatively high IQ, "easy to tame", and "can also cultivate feelings", but in fact, this is an illusion, because they often interact with cobras, they are familiar with the "smell" of "masters", so most of the time cobras will not think that "masters" are a threat!
But accidents are always sudden, for example, like India, Thailand also has a large number of snake players, and also publicly performed for decades, Thailand's famous snake king Buach, once created the Guinness World Record for the longest time with snakes, known as Thailand's "snake king". He was bitten by a cobra he raised during a performance!
But he did not seek medical treatment in time, but continued to perform, because according to previous experience, he could already "immunize" to eye snake venom, but the result was that he fell to the ground in the performance of poisoning, and when people rushed to the hospital, he died, only 34 years old!
In India, 50,000 people die every year from poisonous snakes, and the people whose name is tamed snakes are gradually withering away, most parents do not want Irula's children to continue to engage in the work of "taming snakes", and even the new generation of Irula people are afraid of snakes!