A Life-Threatening Incidence of Neurotoxic Indian Krait Snake Bite: A Case Report

The Indian Krait delivers one of the most lethal venoms compared to other Asian snakes. The venom of the common Krait comprises substantial neurotoxins that cause muscular paralysis. Significant snake bite incidence occurs in rural areas. The significant death rate caused by snake bites is seldomly...

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Autores principales: Lohakare, Tejaswee, Kurian, Bibin, Maurya, Archana, Wanjari, Mayur B, Meshram, Khushbu M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9441268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36081963
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27719
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author Lohakare, Tejaswee
Kurian, Bibin
Maurya, Archana
Wanjari, Mayur B
Meshram, Khushbu M
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description The Indian Krait delivers one of the most lethal venoms compared to other Asian snakes. The venom of the common Krait comprises substantial neurotoxins that cause muscular paralysis. Significant snake bite incidence occurs in rural areas. The significant death rate caused by snake bites is seldomly reported in the medical literature. A 14-year-old adolescent girl was brought by her parents to the emergency department (ED) in an unconscious state. The patient reported swelling on her right hand with fang marks of a snake bite, sweating, and increased salivation. The primary therapeutic intervention was given to the patient and she was treated with intravenous anti-snake venom serum, antibiotics, and anti-epileptics during hospitalisation. 
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spelling pubmed-94412682022-09-07 A Life-Threatening Incidence of Neurotoxic Indian Krait Snake Bite: A Case Report Lohakare, Tejaswee Kurian, Bibin Maurya, Archana Wanjari, Mayur B Meshram, Khushbu M Cureus Emergency Medicine The Indian Krait delivers one of the most lethal venoms compared to other Asian snakes. The venom of the common Krait comprises substantial neurotoxins that cause muscular paralysis. Significant snake bite incidence occurs in rural areas. The significant death rate caused by snake bites is seldomly reported in the medical literature. A 14-year-old adolescent girl was brought by her parents to the emergency department (ED) in an unconscious state. The patient reported swelling on her right hand with fang marks of a snake bite, sweating, and increased salivation. The primary therapeutic intervention was given to the patient and she was treated with intravenous anti-snake venom serum, antibiotics, and anti-epileptics during hospitalisation.  Cureus 2022-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9441268/ /pubmed/36081963 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27719 Text en Copyright © 2022, Lohakare et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Lohakare, Tejaswee
Kurian, Bibin
Maurya, Archana
Wanjari, Mayur B
Meshram, Khushbu M
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title A Life-Threatening Incidence of Neurotoxic Indian Krait Snake Bite: A Case Report
title_full A Life-Threatening Incidence of Neurotoxic Indian Krait Snake Bite: A Case Report
title_fullStr A Life-Threatening Incidence of Neurotoxic Indian Krait Snake Bite: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed A Life-Threatening Incidence of Neurotoxic Indian Krait Snake Bite: A Case Report
title_short A Life-Threatening Incidence of Neurotoxic Indian Krait Snake Bite: A Case Report
title_sort life-threatening incidence of neurotoxic indian krait snake bite: a case report
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