Recently, in a small area in Daxin County, Chongzuo City, Guangxi, a 2-meter-long cobra appeared. At that time, the snake had entered the residential building and was lying on the edge of the elevator entrance of the building. When a male owner went downstairs to get out of the elevator, he suddenly saw the cobra and ran back into the elevator in fright.
Then the firefighters arrived and arrested the cobra, during which the cobra continued to struggle, but fortunately, with the full cooperation of several fire brothers, the cobra was successfully captured. According to the past custom, this cobra should be taken to a remote mountain area for release so as not to hurt people.
It's so dangerous to think about it, and now many people are looking down at their phones when they get out of the elevator, and they go out without raising their heads. Fortunately, the owner did not do this, if he went straight out, what if he was bitten? However, it is also thanks to the fact that the elevator door closes quickly, otherwise the cobra will not have no way to escape when it runs over. So how poisonous are cobras? What should we do when we encounter it? How to give first aid if you are bitten by it?
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Cobras are venomous snakes whose most obvious feature is that they expand their necks to intimidate their opponents. When the neck is open, the cobra will show a pair of black and white markings similar to spectacles, which is why people call it a cobra. Before there were glasses, they had many names, such as bat snakes, rice spoons, big flat-headed winds, flat-necked snakes, rice shovels and so on. There are many species of cobras, while there are basically only two kinds of cobras in China, the Zhoushan cobra (Chinese cobra) and the Bengal cobra.
The distribution of cobras is very wide, China is mainly distributed in the south, like Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and other regions have their figures, the north can occasionally see cobras, but relatively rare. They generally live in plains, hills, mountains in the bushes or bamboo forests, feeding on fish, frogs, birds, and sometimes eating snakes, so they often appear in streams, fields and other places, and sometimes run near human settlements.
Cobras are very resistant to high temperatures, even in the hot environment of 35-38 ° C can still move around in the sun, but they are very sensitive to low temperatures, generally when the temperature is below 9 ° C may freeze to death. So cobras like to go out to forage during the day, and even if the temperature in many places is now above 35 degrees Celsius, it cannot stop their activity. Don't think that people don't come out to hang out when the weather is hot.
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In addition to their physical characteristics, cobras are most famously estimated to be their venom. Much of the fear of it comes from their deadly snake venom. The venom of cobras mainly contains neurotoxins, and most of its members also carry cytotoxins.
Among them, neurotoxins will attack the nervous system, so that the connection between nerves and muscles is significantly weakened, resulting in weakness of people's limbs and insufficient muscle strength. The most serious is that the respiratory muscles are unable to drive the body's breathing movements, causing us to have difficulty breathing, and finally die of asphyxiation or cardiac failure. Cytotoxins, on the other hand, cause internal bleeding and bleeding.
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Because cobra venom is very dangerous, and it often appears around human settlements and even runs into homes, it is often heard that cobras hurt people. For example, in 2012, Quanzhou Yongchun Guiyang a farmer was bitten by a cobra when he went up the mountain to pick tea, he was also big-hearted, and after a simple treatment of the wound, he thought that there was nothing to do, until he slowly felt uncomfortable, he remembered to go to the hospital, and he was already semi-comatose when he was admitted.
In 2018, a 9-year-old boy in Xi'an Village, Xiazhai Town, Pinghe County, Zhangzhou, saw a snake on the ground, and thought it was a toy snake, so he grabbed it and played, who knew that later he was bitten by a snake, fortunately, someone nearby would take some first aid measures, and the child was not in danger of life after being sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
If these people are innocent disasters, then some people are really self-inflicted. In 2016, a man who was engaged in helping people buy snakes and release them was unfortunately bitten when he bought cobras to go to the mountains to release them, and finally died of poison. Walnuts are quite confused, why would someone buy a poisonous snake to release it? Is it bad to release some other points?
Others like to be different and like to hunt for curiosity, so they keep cobras as pets. In 2020, a 19-year-old man in Xiamen was bitten by his pet cobra, and the walnuts were really served, and he actually raised a cobra to play. What if you run out and hurt someone, bite the person and you can't cry.
The world is big, and there is no shortage of courage. Some people's first reaction after finding a cobra is not to run, but to think that they can kill back. This year, a man in Guangxi entered a cobra at home, this big brother is also powerful, actually planned to grab the cobra stew soup to drink, unfortunately, the kitchen knife is too blunt, a knife down failed to cut off the cobra's snake head, but the eyes were injured by the cobra's snake venom, and finally admitted to the hospital for treatment.
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Do not exercise vigorously after being bitten by a cobra, as it is easy to allow the venom to spread throughout the body as the blood flows. Don't learn to suck the snake venom out of the mouth in the TV series, if you have a mouth ulcer or the like in your mouth, the venom is likely to enter the human body along these wounds, which is equivalent to taking poison.
And be sure to stay calm and call the hospital for help as soon as possible. Immediately tie the wound above (near the heart) with a hand towel, cloth strip, bandage, etc. to prevent the spread of venom. And do not tie too tightly, too tight if it is easy to affect blood circulation and cause tissue necrosis, it is advisable to be able to force a finger.
At the same time, you can make a longitudinal incision along the tooth marks of 1.5cm, deep into the skin, or make a "cross-shaped" incision, and squeeze by hand from the proximal end to the periphery of the distal end of the wound, so that the poisonous blood is discharged, and the wound is rinsed with cold water, soapy water, salt water, etc. If there is 0.05% potassium permanganate solution or 3% hydrogen peroxide at home, it is better to rinse with these. But remember to dial 120 in time to send to the hospital for treatment.
Cobra belongs to the highly venomous snake, everyone encountered do not think about their own to solve it, after all, people do not have a master, win the battle is fine, in case of losing the fight then it may be open. So it's best to call the police for help and let a professional deal with them. Walnut is now thinking a little scared, if this brother in Guangxi appears outside the elevator, it is really sent into the shekou, so when the elevator comes out later, everyone still pays more attention to it.