The successful hots owners I know all had mentors.
Seems like every time I'm at the snake farm and get a chance to observe the experts there I learn something new.
Except in the evenings.
Plus you get the added hemotoxin bonus. That agony where you wouldn't mind the doc sawing your extremity off with a blunt pruning saw to get rid of the pain. It's a simply marvelous reminder to keep track of strike zones in the future.
As Ive said in my earlier post, I am not getting a hot any time soon and Im goint to have a mentor so I can learn to be safe around hots including staying far away from the strike zone. And also thanks for the suggestion of the Pytas Mucosa, they are very intriguing.
Pre and post synaptic venom though.. You could end up with life long brain damage.
www.pnas.org
Yea it's wicked stuff.. Any idea how much time elapsed before he became symptomatic? I have heard several reports of the venom taking up to 48 hrs to set in.. We had simar happen in florida.. This kid was black with a black on yellow got bit and didn't show any signs of invenomation for 24-26 hrs..Steve Irwin is reported to have been given a major arse chewing from medical experts for casually handling kraits in one video. A bite is normally a life or death race with every incident and life long debility of some degree is usually expected.Blockade of neuromuscular transmission by enzymatically active and inactive beta-bungarotoxin
beta-Bungarotoxins have been shown to be presynaptic blockers of neuromuscular transmission. This paper reports experiments using the most positively charged beta-bungarotoxin that elutes from a CM-Sephadex C-25 column. The toxin is shown to be a single polypeptide with a molecular weight of...
There was an interesting account of a man in India, well educated in some bio-science field, who suffered from what was diagnosed as chronic emphysema, severe to acute. Just prior to his death it was determined he had in fact latent krait envenomation from working with animals during his school years. When the incident happened is unknown as was the pathway of the envenomation. He had no recollection of ever being bitten. Just a scratch or abrasion and some venom coming in contact?
No info on that, but considering much of the environments of those locales, suburbs around the cities, it could easily have been chalked off as disease or environmental poisoning. I understand that the venom onset usually comes in two waves, the first relatively mild before the synapses get in on things. Sadly in areas where kraits are common the general attitude is if the patient becomes symptomatic it is too late. Logistics weighs in and deaths are quite common before proper medical care can be administered. If someone in a non krait area where antivenin isn't readily available and nobody is trained and oriented, like in the US or Europe, gets a good tag from a krait it would mean kissing your arse goodbye.