It consists of: two large high-suction cups for multiple bites, one small high-suction cup for small surfaces, easy to use lymph constrictor, scalpel, antiseptic swab, complete instructions.

If a victim is unable to reach medical care within 30 minutes, the American Red Cross recommends:

Apply a bandage, wrapped two to four inches above the bite, to help slow the venom. This should not cut off the flow of blood from a vein or artery - the band should be loose enough to slip a finger under it. A suction device can be placed over the bite to help draw venom out of the wound without making cuts. These devices are often included in commercial snake bite kits. Most often, physicians use antivenin -- an antidote to snake venom -- to treat serious snake bites. Antivenin is derived from antibodies created in a horse's blood serum when the animal is injected with snake venom. Because antivenin is obtained from horses, snake bite victims sensitive to horse products must be carefully managed.

Since I do a lot of hiking, I have a similar kit in the pack I bring hiking. I should probably get another though to keep in my emergency kit.

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First off, it is just sooo wrong that a person named Cleopatra would bring up snake bites! LOL

The latest thinking on snakebites is to limit the circulation of venom via cold compresses

(chem cold pack) and or tourniquit until an antivenom can be used.

the old method of making an incision and sucking out the poison tended to spread the venom

more rapidly because more capilaries were exposed to the venom.

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