When a snake bites someone, the possible first aids are many. In Buganda (Uganda), people chew tobacco and spit the nicotine at the site of the snake bite.

Some people risky their lives by sucking out the poison. But Dr. Florence Tusuubira of Namasuba health center on Entebbe road says this only works if the person sucking doesn’t have a wound in his/her mouth.

Tusuubira says that if someone speeds up sucking out the poison the affected person’s life may be saved. Also some people wash the affected site with paraffin. Black stones or snake-stones are also used in Africa as first aid for snake bites.

But the official drugs for snake bites include Penta anti-venom. Where it is applicable, when the snake bites you, kill it and go with it in the hospital as this helps the medical workers to understand the type of venom the snake has injected in your body.

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