What happens if you are bitten by a centipede?

The centipede is a poisonous, predatory terrestrial arthropod, also known as Tianlong, Baijiao, Wu Gong, etc., the body is composed of many segments, each section has steps, the common centipede has red head, green head, blackhead three kinds, together with snakes, scorpions, geckos, toads called "five poisons", let's take a look at what happens if you are bitten by a centipede!

What happens when a centipede bites?

Centipedes are poisonous animals, and small centipede bites occur redness, swelling and pain only locally. Tropical centipede bites can cause lymphangitis and tissue necrosis, sometimes the whole limb appears purple epilepsy, some can see headache, fever, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and even speech, convulsions, coma and other systemic symptoms. If you are bitten by a red-headed, black-body, yellow-footed centipede in the Yangtze River valley, the bite will quickly produce severe pain, usually within 2 hours at the elbow, 3 hours at the armpit, and faint pain in the chest within 4-5 hours. however, it is generally not fatal, and the symptoms gradually disappear after 4 days.

How toxic is the centipede?

The centipede ranks second in toxicity among the five poisons, second only to spiders, and belongs to polypod arthropods. The first pair of feet are hooked and very sharp, and the hook ends are poisonous glandular mouths, commonly known as palatine teeth, claws or poisonous limbs, which can expel poison. After being bitten by a centipede, its venom glands secrete a large amount of venom, and the venom glands of the cis-palatal teeth are injected subcutaneously into the victim's skin, resulting in poisoning. Moreover, the toxicity of different species of centipede is different, and the size also has an effect. Usually, the smaller the centipede is, the less toxic it is. The most poisonous centipede in the world is Harrington centipede, which is widely distributed in many countries and regions in the western Pacific Ocean.

What if I get bitten by a centipede?

1. Avoid spread: find a strip of cloth tied above the wound to avoid the spread of venom, release it every 15 minutes, otherwise the bite will also be necrotic, and immediately go to the hospital to see a professional doctor.

2. Clean the wound: if you can't get to the hospital immediately, tie up the wound and disinfect it with soapy water or alcohol immediately. If you feel the wound is burning, you should take a taxi to the hospital, because you are afraid of dizziness on the way and have an accident.

3, drug detoxification: when bitten by a centipede, use heat-clearing and detoxifying Chinese herbal medicine to apply to the wound, and find Houttuynia cordata or dandelion mash external application where weeds grow. These two kinds of herbs have the effect of heat-clearing and detoxification.

4. Suck out venom: if the above methods cannot be done, you can only apply ice around the wound to relieve the pain, cut open some skin, suck out the venom with tools such as aspirator or cupping, and then clean the wound with potassium permanganate.