Interaction of Sea Snakes with Humans

Interaction with Humans

There have been myths concerning the idea that Sea Snakes does not bite. But the same is not true as they very much bite if provoked aggressively.

Fundamentally, when the sea snakes bite, the victim does not feel any pain in the smitten area for the first 30 minutes. After the passage of these 30 minutes, the affected limb begin to experience pain of extreme to severe to unbearable scale and area gets stiff and finally leading to nervous breakdown and respiratory failure resulting in unnatural death.

Let's see the early symptoms of sea snakes bite.

The symptoms in an affected person can appear to begin in a minute to 8 hours after the bite.

The poisoned person can experience nausea, vomiting, thick tongue, difficulty speaking and swallowing, blurred vision, weakness, stiffness and numbness.

More severe reaction also includes paralysis, drooping eyelids, lockjaw, dark brown urine, blue lips and tongue. Death might follow too.

Sea snake treatment

• Use pressure immobilizations in the case of sea snakes bite
• Affected area shall be wrapped in a bandage in a chic just like wrapping an affected ankle.
• Firmly bind the limb, but make sure the blood circulation is not blocked and also it shall be ensured that fingers and toes remain as pink.
• Avoid movement
• Leave the bandages intact till the administration of medical treatment is done.
• Do not cut in to the wound or suck the affected area as the later activity can affect an unaffected person with venom of the snake

 

Conclusion

The name sea snakes seem pretty cool. Most of the sea snakes can swim but they are more or less like lazy reptiles that prefer staying inside the water. Since they are air-breathers, they need to come out of the water every hour to breathe.

Well, it's amazing to observe that sea snakes can hold breathe for so long!

There are 30-40 different types of sea snakes that belong to the family of cobras. See snakes are very toxic. The most venomous amongst them is the beaded sea snake.

Just a drop is enough to kill 8 people!

They don't bite unless provoked!

Most of the sea snakes are not under the list to be protected. Only one species of them called Laticauda crockery has been found to be vulnerable and efforts are on full swing to reproduce many more of them and saving of them overall to maintain the ecological balance in the sea life in the Deep Sea.

We have tried to list out as many information as we can in this edition of our on sea snakes.

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