Episode #1085: Variable Bush Viper and Blue Insularis

Keeping venomous reptiles is a relentless hobby that requires proper training and a lot of experience. A simple mistake can be the difference between life and death. Remember that the most poisonous snake in the world is the one that just bit you. There are no venomous snakes with training wheels just for the sake of it. Seeing Viper Keeper handle snakes a certain way doesn't mean you should try it too. The last of the squames in the collection is this male who is really putting in a solid effort and is starving. He hasn't eaten in quite a while off and on.

It will eat a live mouse, but most of the time it just won't eat and I'll find a live mouse there or a dead one in a couple of days. He's pretty thin, but his shed is a little stuck right now. so we will help them a little. The squs are not known to cooperate. It took us a few minutes to find the correct tube size. Just take this off so he's a little more comfortable. Are you going to poop on me? Hey? I'm not. You sure have poop to give, he's squishing that neck down a lot, yeah, he's very skinny and you know, we've made the decision that you know if certain animals just refuse to eat what they used to eat, especially the males, the males. . uh, they're the kind that once they're of reproductive age, if they don't, and when they read, um, that's it for them, there you go, that part of the tail is very important, this guy was born here and he was born pretty. it had a pattern but it faded over time that's just an unusual coloration I wonder what's going on there or discoloration I wonder if it's Rod scale or something it doesn't really look like it it's just very unusual um but either way I'll do it let it out, oh yeah, that's a very unhappy snake, yeah, scams, definitely, like showing off their dentures.

There was a Squam bite recently in Texas and you want to extend your fangs again. I don't, and uh, uh. Local doctors actually did not treat the bite properly. There is no specific antidote for Squamiger, although there is some information that the South African all-rounder works reasonably well for quite a few years. Eus anenon was used because its closest living relative. They are from the eus family, but there really is no clinical data on which antivenom might do the best job of neutralizing, yes, neutralizing the venom, and without that information you know you don't have much to work with clinically when a patient presents with a squamiger bite. , you don't know if the risk versus benefit of giving the anti benon will have any good benefit that will outweigh the risk of giving you a bunch of foreign protein injected into your veins. and stuff, so if you had clinical data to support this, one antivenom or another, there's probably three or four Andy Venant, you can try the um, there's a Costa Rican pan-African now that's already available, um, there's a serp that uses several different poisons from Africa, including poisons. for bis and eus, it's kind of like South Africa's all-purpose gold standard, but you know there's not even research paper data you can take.

I took the Venom from a group of Squam Anders and did an inhibition test in the lab. using different serums uh this has been done by many labs it's not that difficult uh um more recently I saw an article by Brian Fry in his group there that compared all the different Indian antidotes to eus bites, which is quite a large number of people are stung by those in India and they showed which ones were effective and which ones were not, so these in vitro studies, that is, in glass in the laboratory, may shed some light on the clinical potential. use for different antivenoms, um, so when people take a Squam, its bite, mostly, Keepers in the US, uh, the doctors here would have an idea of ​​what's probably the best option if the person needs an antivenom for the bite in Texas, uh, of course, the patient showed coagulopathy and the doctors gave him several different blood products that, without the benefit of having an antivenin on board to neutralize the venom, are essentially pouring gasoline on the fire.

There is a fine line between you and whether you decide to administer the antivenin. No, um, you know based on the patient's ability to clot because you can't have a patient sitting in your hospital bed in the ICU, that's not clotting and any slight injury or even spontaneous bleeding. It can happen in very bad places like inside your head, a brain hemorrhage is almost certainly a fatal event in these situations because the only way to try to stop it is to go in surgically and try to stop the hemorrhage, but if you go cut up a patient You are already prone to bleeding, this is not a good idea and you have to relieve the pressure and stop the bleeding in your brain in a short period of time, otherwise significant damage will occur and the pressure inside your skull will increase.

It crushes your brain and the blood supply to your brain and kills you pretty quickly, so it's a big medical dilemma, treating bites from these minor species that don't have a specific antidote available and probably never will unless they come. . We're going to give him some universal antidote, so we're going to shake Mr. Squamiger up a little more and take him back to his compound and then clean up the mess we made. Uh-oh, it's okay, we're still in a bad mood. We're in a bad mood, okay? So, Laura. you move out of the way because yes, Cranky Pants is coming towards me, yes, and he won't hesitate to bite you right now and on top of that, we just defected over the lack of which antivenom would be the best option. a bite of this species so we want to avoid a bite of this species can you relax now oh relax when I feel like relaxing hello handsome are you ready to come out and attack me okay let's come say hello hello yeah there's nothing tasty just showing people one of our beautiful

insularis

, a little male who won't hesitate to attack just because not necessarily because he's hungry just because he's a bit of a jerk, look at those beautiful eyes, a nice contrast to the pretty

blue

, okay.

I will leave you alone