Yorkshire Snake Bite Victim Rushed To Hospital

A man is in a serious but stable condition after he was bitten three times by a venomous adder at a forest adventure park.

A man has been left seriously injured after he was attacked by a venomous snake in Yorkshire.

The 44-year-old victim, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was bitten three times by an adder in North Yorkshire's Dalby Forest.

He was treated at the scene - the Go Ape forest adventure park - by a rapid response medic and an off-duty paramedic from the South East Coast Ambulance Service who was there on holiday.

He then received further treatment from a trauma team led by a doctor.

The victim was stabilised before being flown by the Great North Air Ambulance Service to Middlesbrough's James Cook University Hospital in a serious but stable condition.

The snake was thought to be a common European adder, or vipera berus - Britain's only venomous snake - which grows to around 80cm (31in).

The adder is relatively common in the UK and is known to live in a number of forests across Yorkshire.

It is not thought to be particularly dangerous or aggressive and usually bites only when disturbed suddenly.

The snake usually eats small mammals, such as mice, voles and shrews.

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Spiders and snakes on the prowl, must be the hot weather!

If he's "seriously ill" he must be allergic to the venom, its normally no greater matter than a bee sting......

NHS says:

If an adder injects venom when it bites, it can cause serious symptoms including:

redness and swelling in the area of the bite
nausea (feeling sick)
vomiting
dizziness

And he was bitten three times!

If he was bitten three times then if it was an adder (allowing for idiots illegally importing exotic "pets" which then escape) he must have been messing with it - trying to pick it up or something equally idiotic.

Sassy wrote:NHS says:

If an adder injects venom when it bites, it can cause serious symptoms including:

   redness and swelling in the area of the bite
   nausea (feeling sick)
   vomiting
   dizziness

And he was bitten three times!

as it says "CAN" cause......

usually it causes very few problems....

moreover...where was he bitten...that would be interesting to know....

victorisnotamused wrote:moreover...where was he bitten...that would be interesting to know....

Well, they do like to sunbathe on warm rocks, so perhaps he sat on it by mistake?   

Hump's best friend was very poorly two years ago. He had frollicking in our country park as big soppy lollopy dogs do.

Being a Retriever he " fetched " a green plastic tube the ones that are used to protect young trees from squirrels etc. Unbeknown to him and his owner it contained an Adder and her babies. He was bitten and thankfully saw the right vet. The dog was ill for months.

He is back to full flow but avoids the green plastic tubes.

gerber wrote:Hump's best friend was very poorly two years ago.  He had frollicking in our country park as big soppy lollopy dogs do.

Being a Retriever he " fetched " a green plastic tube the ones that are used to protect young trees from squirrels etc.  Unbeknown to him and his owner it contained an Adder and her babies.  He was bitten and thankfully saw the right vet.  The dog was ill for months.

He is back to full flow but avoids the green plastic tubes.

I'm not surprised! Benny been swimming in the weir today, daddy swan was not amused, had three nearly full grown cygnets trying their wings, didn't fancy a black lab swimming near them. Hissed like mad at Benny, who swam away very very fast. Think he will stear clear of swans in future!

I ran over a rattler the other day - not on purpose - even in the car I got the heebies .....

this story is why God invented indoors people .....

Cass wrote:I ran over a rattler the other day - not on purpose - even in the car I got the heebies .....

this story is why God invented indoors people .....

Hope Herbie is OK................. and the rattler dead.

Po rattler...maybe she had a family to look after.

All I ask is a moment of silence...

 

BACK in the dim dark past of my younger years, mid-1980s in fact...

I WAS driving an F100 (pickup..) down through the Yarramalong Valley, just minding my own business..

WHEN I accidentally drove over this enormous old granddaddy Red-bellied Black snake, it shot out from the grass on the side of the road ~ and both back wheels went over it at the same time !

THAT would have made it well over TWO metres  long - certainly the longest that I've ever seen - and as thick as any man's forearm..    

(Last seen disappearing off into a paddock, there was still the strong possibility that it had a couple of broken ribs, and might have eventually died from internal injuries..).

Fords!! Pshhh... They never do the job. Lol

Original Quill wrote:Po rattler...maybe she had a family to look after.

All I ask is a moment of silence...

then she should've been looking after them instead of getting a tan in the middle of the road.....and I was NOT getting out to render first aid.......and I was driving a ford lol lol...

^gerbs when I was going home later lets just say that it was flatter than a flat tire.....seriously...thinner than an envelope.