Post by gato on Jun 1, 2022 5:58:39 GMT -5
Hollywood has taught us a slew of recommendations that linger long after we leave the theater:
always take a flickering flashlight into the dark basement, ignore the flashing warning that your vehicle is running on fumes, as you pass the "Last Gas" station, take camping advice from the drooling, cannibalistic hillbilly you picked up hitchhiking on a deserted dirt road.
As a child, I was brought up on Hollywood snakebite advice:
Clamp a tourniquet around that leg, make a couple of "X" cuts on the punctures and heroically suck out the poison. Just last night I saw a recent film where the "suck and spit" method was used.
Today, though, I was reading an article about the increased presence of copperhead snakes in the mid-Atlantic region, and the following advice for first steps after a bite, was printed which seems to fly in the face of movie wisdom:
"Remove any constrictive clothing and jewelry.
Take a picture of the snake if you can do it safely. Do not bring the snake, whether dead or alive. Deceased snakes can still envenomate.
Do not do any of the following: tourniquets, lymphatic bandage, pressure immobilization, cut and suck, extraction device, electrical stimulation, or packing the extremity in ice."
I dunno. Maybe I should check with the hillbilly. I don't know anyone who was bitten in the past. Any of y'all?
always take a flickering flashlight into the dark basement, ignore the flashing warning that your vehicle is running on fumes, as you pass the "Last Gas" station, take camping advice from the drooling, cannibalistic hillbilly you picked up hitchhiking on a deserted dirt road.
As a child, I was brought up on Hollywood snakebite advice:
Clamp a tourniquet around that leg, make a couple of "X" cuts on the punctures and heroically suck out the poison. Just last night I saw a recent film where the "suck and spit" method was used.
Today, though, I was reading an article about the increased presence of copperhead snakes in the mid-Atlantic region, and the following advice for first steps after a bite, was printed which seems to fly in the face of movie wisdom:
"Remove any constrictive clothing and jewelry.
Take a picture of the snake if you can do it safely. Do not bring the snake, whether dead or alive. Deceased snakes can still envenomate.
Do not do any of the following: tourniquets, lymphatic bandage, pressure immobilization, cut and suck, extraction device, electrical stimulation, or packing the extremity in ice."
I dunno. Maybe I should check with the hillbilly. I don't know anyone who was bitten in the past. Any of y'all?
