13 YEAR OLD GIRL’S LEG TURNS BLACK AND SHRIVELS UP FROM SNAKE BITE

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A 13 year old girl was the victim of a snake bite which in turn caused her leg to turn completely black and horrifically shrivel up, resembling a mummified body part.

This horrific picture shows a young girl’s leg that has shriveled and turned completely black after being bitten by a snake.

The snake’s venom caused severe necrosis – the premature death of cells.

This caused the tissue in her leg to die, leaving it withered and rotten. 

13 YEAR OLD GIRL’S LEG TURNS BLACK AND SHRIVELS UP FROM SNAKE BITE

Necrosis, which is the premature death of cells, was brought on by the snakes venom. The condition was so severe it caused the tissue in the leg to rot away and essentially “die”. The girl did not seek proper medical treatment until a month after the bite. She instead used remedies from the indigenous culture she was from. Eventually she was brought to a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela. While the leg will need to be amputated, the likelihood of the girl surviving the bite is slim. “The whole lower leg is black, it’s spreading up. Looking at the rest of her body she’s showing signs of muscle wastage from the poison. Her other leg is thin. It’s likely she will still die”, says Dr. Arun Ghosh, a private General Practitioner in Liverpool.
Due to the severe necrosis, a condition called rhabdomyolysis, where muscle tissue throughout the body begins to die, has set in. ‘Compartment syndrome’, a serious condition which causes a decrease in blood supply to the affected muscles within a compartment such as the leg, has also set in due to artery laceration from the snake bite. While antibiotics were likely given to the girl as part of the initial local remedy treatment, adequately controlling the poison from the snake venom was neglected. The poison paralyzed the nerves, causing the blood to clot. Dr. Ghosh explains how the blood clotting occurred, “The girl has had classic rural treatment which is often only able to treat local infection secondary to the bite. But she is unlikely to have received anti­venom treatment to keep her blood flowing through her body.”

13 YEAR OLD GIRL’S LEG TURNS BLACK AND SHRIVELS UP FROM SNAKE BITE

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