How to be and what to do in the country there were snakes

12 cards that explain how to be, if at the dacha was got a very dangerous viper, copperhead, and how much is safe non-toxic

Snakes on a summer cottage is not so rare. Among the users there FORUMHOUSE brave as Riki Tiki Tavi, who believe that it is possible to divide the area with a viper - this, of course, a very dangerous courage. Poisonous snakes in the area are very dangerous, and we have prepared a card with recommendations herpetologists, how to get rid of them.

Content:

• What are the poisonous snakes are found on the territory of Russia
• As with the display portion snakes
• How dangerous are bites of poisonous snakes
• Aid for snake bites

What snakes are found in the Moscow region

In Moscow three common species of snakes: adder (poisonous), copperhead ordinary (non-toxic) and the grass snake. Snakes can be found throughout the area, but most of them in the areas with swamps. Most snakes in the usual ways: Konakovo, Shatura, Dmitrov.

Viper - the most common venomous snake in the entire territory of Russia. If you are not lucky to meet a poisonous snake, most likely, it will be adder, or other type of vipers.

Where are the snakes at their summer cottage

In the nests they weave in the manure and compost heaps, hay, stack of wood, old logs, undismantled trash, debris, high grass uncut. Snakes love thick bushes and large boulders - they like to hunt in dense shade.

How to recognize a viper

Viper - a snake is not longer than 65 cm, is usually black, but there are specimens of gray and green color - all poisonous snakes along the back have a pattern in the form of a zigzag or wave. With the sudden meeting with a viper, of course, it is not up to the viewing patterns on her back, so you have to be careful with all the snakes.

If I am bitten by a viper, I die?

After being bitten by a situation may develop in two scenarios:

• anaphylactic shock (The person loses consciousness, he had difficulty breathing, disturbed cardiac activity) and may die.
• local reaction (inflammation).

On average, the toxins spread for 20-25 minutes, then there are the first signs of poisoning. And the more likely to get help after a snake bite antidote faster than enter, the less bad effects (Shock, edema, failure of internal organs, strong vertigo), and the lower the probability of death.
In 70% of cases after the administration of an antidote to all the symptoms disappear within 3-5 days after the bite, but sometimes requiring hospital rehabilitation of 10 days to a month. Worst of all, if the viper bite into the upper part of the body - as a major dose of toxin enters the head and attacks the brain.

What to do if bitten by a viper?

• Cause "fast", be sure to tell the bite of a viper. Serum "Antigadyuka" have every hospital, clinic, each village paramedic station, the "ambulance." You are sure to help.
• Take 1-2 tablets antihistamine (not aspirin), in small portions drink about three liters of water.
• To move as little as possible (it is better to keep still) - muscle contractions accelerate the absorption of the poison.

Some experts believe that in the first 5-10 minutes after the bite of the poison can suck from the wound with blood and spit it out. If on the lips and in the mouth is not damaged, it is safe. In the mouth and the gastrointestinal tract is split poison saliva and gastric juice - they can not be poisoned. But most agree that suck the poison is dangerous, especially if there is no certainty that it has bitten adder.

After being bitten by a snake can not apply a tourniquet on his arms and legs, burn wounds, incise, treating potassium permanganate. It is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol, you can not drink coffee.

It is true that in the spring of viper bite is more dangerous than at any other time of the year?

True. When the adder extends from hibernation, it comprises a critical amount of venom toxins. But no less dangerous to come across a snake in the early to mid-summer, when most snakes begin mating season, and they are especially fierce.

Do viper first attack?

Usually they do not attack.

Yuri Ostapenko

Chief Freelance toxicologist DZ city Moscow, PhD, Associate Professor

Most often, people do not see that there is a snake, he comes to it. Or pick berries, climbs into the grass hands walking on the thick grass, a snake comes - that is, he sees it practically. Snakes, particularly vipers, do not attack themselves. They defend themselves, if they occur, or touching, they are always trying to get away.

Are poisonous copperhead?

in theory only. In medyanok have poison glands, but they produce too little poison to harm humans. For comparison, a bee sting is much more dangerous. Copperhead dangerous only for people with weak immunity, allergies, young children and very old people. Snakes, by the way, are not poisonous.

What to do if bitten by copperhead?

Wash the wound with running water, treat any antiseptic, applied to the wound, the ice or plastic bottle with ice water.
If the pain from the bite of a strong take painkillers.
A tendency to allergies take an antihistamine.
To maintain peace and to drink as much water as possible.
For any deterioration of the victim immediately take him to the hospital.

Why recently in the Moscow region were so many poisonous snakes?

Previously Moscow Serpentarium in Moscow and the surrounding areas during the summer to catch about 10 thousand snakes. It played a role and climate change: in the summer the snakes trying to find a cool place.

On my site I bred snakes, how to get rid of them?

To create the most unacceptable conditions for snakes and snakes squeeze with his near and territory. For this:

• Restore order on the site and to mow regularly and adjacent uncultivated their podkashivat. Scatter them rags soaked in Local or herbicides. Perhaps shed their letter "Sha", so that your site is not crawled, and were "corridors" to get away from the next.
• If the house is on stilts, to clear space for him to lift the soil to 10 cm, lay geotextile and fill nitrate. Sew up the piles in such a situation can not, you just have to decorate them. Cover nitrate (at least detergent) all redkoosmatrivaemye space (recess for composting toilets, under the shower tray and m. P.).
• Porch should be open, and not a "box". Under the porch have shed herbicide.
• Make metal pinwheels and fasten around the perimeter on iron poles at intervals of 10-15 m is not welded -. Vibrations to be created on a pillar.

What else can you do to protect land from the snakes?

• If the floor in the outbuildings of the slab, sew it with plywood, lay linoleum and baseboards to make, to eliminate all the gaps, put a normal door frame with a normal door. So you do not "stumble" on a snake, when you get something from under the bench.
• Adopt a cat, a dog. Lure urchins - are the main enemies of snakes.
• Do not enter directly into the outside shower, toilet, shed, etc. On each door you need to hang a stick-stuchalki and come in only two and tapping the potential viper crawl time. Going to look at his feet (especially in August, when crawling everywhere zmeenyshi).
• Walk on the site in sneakers. In 90% of cases of snake bite in the foot and shoes they do not bite.
• Upon completion of construction disassemble building materials, all able to remove (for example, in the attic), unnecessary burn.
• Shed some chemistry around the woodpile. Sprinkle it on the canopy.
• Regularly mow the lawn. Snakes snake across his soul hates the vibration of the machine.

I see a snake, probably better to kill her with a shovel?

No, do not. Dying, snakes emit a distinctive odor, which attracts to the area other snakes. Therefore correct to create unbearable conditions for them.
After moulting to the site may show snake skin. It is impossible to take your hands (to avoid human odor), it is necessary to pick up a shovel and walk away as possible from the site. This is important: the snakes are guided by smell and shed only in "their" places.

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