Today, I accidentally brushed a previous news, the content was "female online purchase of poisonous snake bitten death family compensation of 330,000 yuan".
The cause of the incident was Yang Moumou, a 21-year-old female college student in Weinan, Shaanxi Province, who bought the silver-ringed snake twice on the transfer platform, but died after being bitten after receiving the silver-ringed snake for the second time.
After reading this, because you will definitely be wondering, there are still people who buy snakes online, many people will definitely be scared when they talk about snakes, and its appearance is indeed always creepy.
However, the main reason why people are afraid is because they can't tell if it's poisonous!
Today I will talk to you about this more common and highly toxic - the silver-ringed snake
An introduction to the silver-ringed snake
The silver-ringed snake belongs to the cobra family, the ringed snake genus. The appearance is characterized by an oval head with a pointed tail end. The black and white rings alternate, with the white ring narrower, the black ring longer, and the cross-section triangular.
Folk rumors say that the silver-ringed snake is more docile, but it is only more timid and will not stare at you, but it will bite as long as it is close, will bite you when you are surprised, and will not let go after biting, rubbing hard with its upper and lower jaws, so folk rumors are not very appropriate.
Life habits and distribution of silver-ringed snakes
The silver-ringed snake is a social snake, and has a strong snake-eating nature, mainly distributed at the foot of the mountain paddy fields and near the deep mountain canals and streams, its main food sources are snakes, yellow eels, loach, etc.
Silver-ringed snakes love sweltering weather and chasing light!! It is a nocturnal snake that has basically never seen light. When it suddenly sees a place with light, it will become curious and follow the light source. This is one of the reasons why many people often encounter silver-ringed snakes when they go night fishing.
The highly venomous silver-ringed snake and the non-venomous white-ringed snake are very similar in appearance, and how to distinguish them
How to distinguish a venomous silver-ringed snake from a non-venomous white-ringed snake? Compared to the white-ringed snake, the silver-ringed snake has a thicker tail, with distinct ridges and enlarged hexagonal ridge scales!
Many people say that round-headed snakes are non-venomous, which is wrong. The silver-ringed snake is a round-headed snake, but it is the most venomous snake in China. Although it has the most toxic toxin in China, its lethality and lethality rate are not the strongest in China. This is related to the number and length of fangs.
How strong is the poison of the silver-ringed snake
The silver-ringed snake has a strong neurotoxin, and its biggest weakness is that its fangs are relatively short, the amount of detoxification is relatively small, and the neurotoxin attacks are relatively slow in the early stage, so most patients are generally poisoned after two hours after being bitten by the silver-ringed snake, and the fastest is half an hour. The initial poisoning reaction is only mild redness, itching, and local numbness of the wound. As toxicity worsens, most patients experience symptoms such as drowsiness and fever.
As neurotoxins slowly erode our bodies, the toxic reactions that occur become more and more obvious, similar to blurred vision, numb throat, slurred speech and even weakness in limbs, slow movement, drooping upper eyelids, weak mouth extension, and unknown vomiting.
The neurotoxin of the silver-ringed snake will cause paralysis of the central nervous system, and the symptoms of dyspnea, chest tightness and panic, convulsions will occur in one day, and some patients will have permanent general paralysis or even brain death, and the mortality rate of patients can reach more than 20%. Therefore, if you are bitten by a silver-ringed snake, you must seek medical attention in time, do not blindly believe in folk soil methods, and ensure that there are fewer sequelae.