4-year-old girl was bitten to death by a scorpion snake

On the afternoon of May 22, Doctor Pham Van Minh, Director of Phu Yen Obstetrics and Children’s Hospital, said that the hospital had received treatment for a 4-year-old girl STNN (living in Phuoc Tan commune, Son Hoa district) suffering from scorpion snakes. bite. However, the baby’s condition progressed too seriously, the prognosis dead So the family asked to take the baby home on the evening of May 21.

The director of Phu Yen Obstetrics and Children’s Hospital said that baby N. was transferred to the hospital by the Son Hoa District Medical Center at 2:30 am on May 16 with a state of lethargy, difficulty breathing, and signs of apnea. The hospital performed endotracheal intubation for the baby.

Providing information, N.’s parents said that on the evening of May 16, when baby N. was sleeping in the house, a snake crawled in and bitten him. Knowing it was a poisonous snake, the family took the child to the Son Hoa District Medical Center for emergency treatment and was transferred to the provincial hospital in the night.

Through the image provided by the victim’s family, it was initially determined that this was a krait, a very poisonous snake. However, in the Obstetrics – Pediatrics Hospital and Phu Yen Provincial General Hospital, there is no anti-sera for scorpion venom.

“Because the condition of baby N. is very serious, the hospital contacted two upper-level hospitals, Children’s Hospital 1, Children’s Hospital 2 (HCMC), but received no response that there was no anti-venom serum for this snake. , so I can’t transfer the baby to the hospital.” – Doctor Pham Van Minh said.

According to Dr. Minh, after a week of treatment, but the baby’s condition got worse, liver and kidney failure, did not respond to antipyretic drugs, death was predicted, so the family would like to take N. home.

“This is the time of changing seasons, so snakes, including poisonous snakes, often crawl into the house. People need to carefully check their houses and close the holes to prevent snakes and centipedes. Because there are some types of poisonous snakes that are not available. Antivenom serum, so the mortality rate when bitten by this snake is very high.” – Director of Phu Yen Obstetrics – Pediatrics Hospital recommended.

Information from relatives of baby N. said, after being given from hospital Back home, baby N. was dead. The family is currently carrying out funeral procedures for the grandchild.

It is known that N.’s family is an ethnic minority, so they often sleep and live on stilts that are quite high from the ground.

“My house is a stilt house, the roof is corrugated iron, the wooden floor is also installed very carefully. But I don’t understand why the scorpion can get into the sleeping place and bite me.” – N.’s relative said.

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