3 year old girl bitten by cobra that crawled into her house
Baby Phan Thi Ngoc Linh, Ha Tinh, was watching TV in the living room when she suddenly cried loudly. Her family discovered a 2 kg cobra under the chair.
The baby's leg was swollen and bleeding from the snake bite on his right foot. At first, his family thought the wound was caused by a cat scratch, so they just applied leaves to reduce the swelling. The next morning, August 15, the baby's leg was swollen, edematous, and more painful. The family carefully examined the wound, suspected to be a snake bite, and found a large cobra under the sofa.
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Linh's right foot is at risk of necrosis due to a cobra bite. Photo:D.H. |
The baby was taken to Thach Ha District General Hospital for emergency treatment. Doctors diagnosed that the snake bite wound had become necrotic and transferred him to the National Burn Institute in Hanoi for treatment.
The foot wound is not life-threatening, but the patient's health is declining.
Linh is the second child in a family of 3 siblings. Her mother just gave birth to a baby, her father works far away, Linh is taken care of by her grandmother.
