Is the bamboo leaf green snake poisonous?

Bamboo leaf green snake, also known as green bamboo snake, green bamboo biao, Diao Zhuqing, coke tail, etc., is a snake of the viper family, with a large head, a triangular neck, a thin neck, a clear distinction between the head and neck, fine scales on the top of the head, scales between the left and right noses are not tangent, separated by fine scales, the dorsal scales are scaled except the outermost line, and most of the species except a few are oviparous. Let's take a look at whether the bamboo leaf green snake is poisonous.

The Life habits of Bamboo Leaf Green

The bamboo leaf snake is active during the day and night, with strong tree habitat, often hanging or entangled on branches, especially living in the trees next to caves, more than day and night activities on rainy days, and more frequent at night. It feeds on small animals such as frogs, scorpions, birds and rodents, and is suitable for temperatures between 22 and 32 degrees. Temperament is neurotic and aggressive.

Is the bamboo leaf green snake poisonous?

The bamboo leaf green snake is poisonous. The bamboo leaf green snake is one of the 10 deadliest creatures in the world, and the toxin produced is blood-based poison. There are many kinds of blood circulation toxins, with complex components, mainly cardiovascular and blood system, resulting in a variety of toxic effects. Bite when the amount of detoxification is small, its toxicity is mainly hemorrhagic changes, a dry poison can be 15 mg, but an average of 100 mg will die, so rarely to death, but if not timely treatment, will leave disability.

Symptoms of bamboo leaf green bite

There are 2 tooth marks (maybe only one occasionally) in the bite wound of Zhuyeqing, 0.3-0.8 cm apart. The wound has a small amount of blood oozing, severe pain, burning-like, local redness and swelling, can be broken, and develops rapidly. Its typical feature is that bloody blisters are more common, and appear earlier, generally less systemic symptoms. Systemic symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, abdominal distension, pain, local redness and swelling, mucosal bleeding, etc., some patients vomiting blood, hematochezia, serious toxic shock, its clinical manifestation is equivalent to the fire toxin symptoms of traditional Chinese medicine, so it is called "fire toxin".

First aid of bamboo leaf green bite

1. Zhuyeqing bite should immediately squeeze out the blood containing snake venom and send it to the hospital in time to break the cold and antivenom, otherwise it may lead to the spread of venom.

2. When Zhuyeqing bites, if there is water around you, rinse it with clean water while squeezing out the blood of the wound, or suck the blood out with your mouth.

3. Zhuyeqing bite should find a way to ligate the proximal end of the wound. If the wound is on the dorsum of the foot, it should be ligated at the upper end of the ankle joint and the lower end of the knee joint. If the injury is on the back of the hand, it is ligated at the upper end of the wrist and the lower end of the elbow.

4, bamboo leaf green bite wound binding time can not be too long, generally every hour to loosen the rope for 2 minutes for 3 minutes, so as to avoid long-term ischemia and necrosis of the limbs.