Every year after the Qingming Dynasty, hibernating snakes frequently appear, mainly because they are hungry and need to come out to forage. For example, a little girl in Guilin, Guangxi Province, found a 3.5-meter-long poisonous king cobra in front of her home, 3 snakes were found in the ceiling of a building in Meishan, Sichuan, a 3.8-meter-long giant python weighing 50 kilograms was found in the Shenzhen Industrial Park, and a village in Henan was surrounded by snakes everywhere, which looked very scary.
According to statistics, there are more than 3,000 kinds of snakes in the world, and China occupies more than 240 species, of which there are more than 650 kinds of venomous snakes and 65 species in China. As the ecological environment has become better and better, the number of snakes has also risen sharply, and even some very rare snakes have appeared. Recently, a very precious poisonous snake occurred in Shiyan, Hubei Province, this poisonous snake is called the white-headed viper, which is said to be China's "first poisonous snake".
About the bald viper
The white-headed viper is one of the top 27 venomous snakes in China, and in terms of appearance, this snake is very easy to distinguish. Because its head, like some other venomous snakes, is triangular, but the color of her head is white, which is more special. Its whole body is basically purple-brown and some scarlet, which looks very scary.
However, the body length of the white-headed viper is relatively short compared to other snakes, because the female white-headed viper is only 60 cm, while the male is even shorter, only 50 cm, and the overall body length is average. They prefer to be nocturnal and are most active at dusk. Usually, the bald viper lives in a forest area at an altitude of 1300 meters above sea level, inhabiting caves.
Like other snakes, the white-headed viper is oviparous, and they begin to lay eggs in July and August of each year, each of which can reach about 24 pieces, and the eggs are white and oval-shaped. It is worth mentioning that the distribution of the white-headed viper is very extensive, in Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Zhejiang, etc. have their presence, just think of Vietnam and Myanmar have their activity trajectory.
It has to be said that the bald viper is a very stingy snake, and if caught in the wild, they will go on hunger strike until they starve to death. Such snakes are still very rare, so they are also listed as national protected animals. In addition, the white-headed viper has a very good feature, that is, after it has eaten and drunk enough, they can support it for about half a year. Due to their particularity, the current white-headed viper cannot be farmed in captivity.
What happens if I am bitten by a bald viper?
The venom of the white-headed viper is a pre-tube tooth venomous snake that belongs to the mixed toxin, and accidentally bitten by it will cause blood to coagulate, resulting in local pain, muscle swelling, dizziness, difficulty swallowing, blurred vision, droopy eyelids and other symptoms, and after biting, it can cause diffuse intravascular coagulation (acute DIC), so that the redness and pain of the injured limb gradually aggravate the dysfunction.
After being bitten by a bald viper, the golden rescue time is 6 hours, and if it exceeds six hours, it is very dangerous. Lao Ye, a 53-year-old native of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, worked in the Longtan Town Mine in Yongding, Huilongyan in early March. At more than 7 p.m. on the 14th, when the night was dark, he and his co-workers and a group of several people walked on the path of the mining area.
As I walked, I suddenly noticed a stall of things moving on the side of the road. "I didn't see what it was, but if I looked closely, it was a snake." For snakes, Lao Ye has experience, and there are often uninvited guests such as snakes in his hometown, and he has caught a lot, but this snake is his head back. Lao Ye said that the snake was extraordinary, with a triangular head, rare white, an auburn body, with markings, about 65 centimeters long, and a thick thumb. Lao Ye, who is good at catching snakes, grabs the snake and packs it in a plastic bottle.
At 8:00 p.m. on the 16th, Lao Ye planned to soak the snake wine, just opened the bottle cap, ready to pour in the liquor, and the snake sprang out. Lao Ye got up to grab it, but this time he was not so lucky, the snake's head fought back, and it was a bite at Lao Ye's right index finger. The wound on the old leaf index finger was immediately blackened. Fortunately, everyone was on the scene for emergency treatment, and the workers helped him to bring a long cloth strip and tighten the arm above the wound to prevent the spread of venom. One side cut the wound with a knife, squeezed out the poisonous blood, and then immediately sent to the emergency department of the First Hospital of Longyan City.
After the doctor's identification, it was suspected that he was bitten by a poisonous snake called the white-headed viper, so he launched a rescue overnight, and after three days, Lao Ye was discharged from the hospital. If his co-workers did not find out when Lao Ye was bitten at that time, then Lao Ye must have been less fierce.
Whose venom is more terrifying than the five-step snake and the silver-ringed snake?
The venom of the white-headed viper is a mixture of toxins, which will cause blood to coagulate after being bitten, resulting in local pain, muscle swelling, dizziness, dysphagia, blurred vision, droopy eyelids and other symptoms, and after biting, it can cause diffuse intravascular coagulation (acute DIC), causing redness and pain in the injured limbs to gradually aggravate the dysfunction.
Five-step snake is a blood circulation venomous snake, if accidentally bitten by the five-step snake, the patient will bleed non-stop, general compression bandaging can not stop the bleeding, can cause extensive bleeding throughout the body. If not treated in time, it will lead to blood circulation failure, kidney failure and death! It is a very venomous snake.
The venom of the silver ring snake is mainly neurotoxin, and after being accidentally bitten by the silver ring snake, it will rarely bleed. However, patients may present with headache, nausea, chest tightness, abdominal pain, etc. If treatment is delayed, when the condition is dying, the patient will be comatose, cyanosis of the lips, dyspnea, loss of pupil-to-light reflex, and respiratory and heartbeat arrest.
Which of these three poisonous snakes is the most powerful?
In terms of toxicity, experts have done experiments before, according to the final data analysis, the white-headed viper is more toxic than the five-step snake, but compared with the silver ring snake, there is no silver ring snake. From the perspective of detoxification, although the five-step snake is the first, from the perspective of the use of antivenom, the first is the silver ring snake.
Surprisingly, however, the white-headed viper was awarded the title of China's first venomous snake, mainly because there was no antivenom serum for it. If you are accidentally bitten by a white-headed viper, then you will first inject the antivenom of the cobra, and then use a combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine based on improving microcirculation drugs, only in this way can it be completely cured.
summary
Whether it is a white-headed viper or a five-step snake and a silver ring snake, they all belong to the highly venomous snake class, and when encountering them, they must take the initiative to avoid, do not think of catching and brewing wine, Lao Ye is a best negative example. And these snakes are all protected animals by the state, and random hunting is subject to legal sanctions, so we must pay attention not to touch the red line.