Spring

So Spring is almost here and there has already been some snake activity with a lot of reports from across South Africa of snakes being seen and caught / removed. We removed our first catch of the season as well. We found two Snouted Cobras in a manhole. Luckily no one was injured, including the […]

Winter Reptile Weekend – KZN

We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Winter Reptile Weekend. What this entails is back to back courses. Here are the details:Saturday 23 August 2014 we will be hosting a Snake Identification and Bite Treatment Course, as well as a Venomous Snake Handling Course. This course covers all the venomous snakes as […]

Puffadder bite – 1 week later

One week later and the puffadder bite patient has made a remarkable recovery. Little Nico Smit was discharged from hospital on the 10th April 2013. His finger was still discoloured and 3 blisters had formed. Within a few days of being discharged, the blisters had disappeared and only 3 small red spots remained. This has […]

Puffadder bite

On Sunday, 7th April 2013, at about 8:00 pm we received a call from a doctor who had a patient which was bitten by a Puffadder earlier that day. We went to see the patient and advised the doctor about his treatment. On arrival we learnt that the patient was only 1 year and 9 […]

Green Mamba bite

Today a friend who works at a nature reserve received a bite from a Green Mamba. He was rushed to the closest hospital. Arno was contacted by his father who said that his son could not call as he had blurred vision and could not see the numbers. Arno was very concerned and had arranged […]

Botswana Spitting Cobra Bite

Got a call from the UK just now. The persons relative in Botswana was bitten by a Spitting Cobra and the treatment has been less than the minimum standard. Within 7 minutes I had two units alerted. The private hospital had a surgeon on call that specializes in snake bite and the state hospital had […]