Rescue 2 year old boy bitten by red tail green pit viper

On November 23, Mr. Huynh Van Khai, Director of SOS Phu Quoc General Clinic ( Kien Giang ), said that the clinic's doctors had just treated a 2-year-old boy who was bitten by a red-tailed green pit viper.

At around 8:30 p.m. on November 22, a 2-year-old boy named NTĐ (living in Ham Ninh Commune, Phu Quoc City) was brought to the SOS Clinic by his parents in a state of severe pain and swelling at the bite wound on his right foot.

According to family members, at around 7:30 p.m. the same day, they discovered that the child had pain in his leg and a wound suspected to be a snake bite, so they quickly took him to the clinic for examination.

After examining and identifying the bite, the medical team concluded that the baby had been bitten by a red-tailed green pit viper. Immediately afterwards, the doctors injected antivenom serum into baby D. After the injection, the doctors allowed the patient to stay in the clinic for observation until after 11 p.m. the same day, when his health was stable, they allowed the patient to go home.

On the morning of November 23, the family took baby D. to the clinic for a check-up. After testing, the baby's health condition was stable so he was allowed to go home for continued care.

A representative of SOS Phu Quoc Clinic said that recently, many people bitten by red-tailed green pit vipers have come to the clinic for emergency serum injections.

Explaining the recent increase in the number of red-tailed green pit viper bites, many locals said that this year Phu Quoc has had a lot of rain, and the humid environment is a favorable condition for red-tailed green pit vipers to reproduce.