Beware ... scorpions and other dangerous reptiles may threaten your life during warmer temperatures

Weather of Arabia - The danger that a person may face during high temperatures is not only limited to the healthy aspect and sunstroke, but also extends to the threat of many living creatures that seek shelter and spread during periods of high temperatures.

As high temperatures are a major factor and an appropriate environment for the proliferation of many reptiles and harmful insects that threaten human life while searching for a place to shelter from the intensity of heat.

During the summer, due to high temperatures and heat waves, care should be taken to guard against many reptiles and insects that may spread in many places, especially in agricultural areas and forests.

Dangerous reptiles may threaten your life during the summer

Snakes

• Snakes restore their activity and get out of hiding places as temperatures rise. Therefore, it is necessary to take care and caution by people when they go to different hiking areas and choose the appropriate places to sit in and not to sit in places where there are abundant herbs, stones, rocks and burrows because they constitute a haven for snakes.

• Also, children should not be left alone and monitored while playing and should not be allowed to walk barefoot to protect them from the risk of snakes. Besides the necessity of getting rid of weeds around houses or in their gardens, and closing all ports and corners that snakes can harbor.

• If a person is stung by a snake, a number of important measures must be taken. To reduce the risk of injury, namely: calmness and non-movement of the affected part; Because its movement increases the spread of the poison inside the body, it should also be careful not to fear and excitement, which lead to accelerate the injured pulse and the expansion of blood vessels so that the poison can reach all parts of the body.

• The compression laces must be used and tied around the affected part and be above the sting to prevent the poison from flowing with the blood, then wound the place of each canine of the snake's fangs visible on the affected part with a clean and sterile knife with a length of 1 cm and a depth of half a centimeter and washing the wound with soap and water.

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Scorpions:

• Scorpions are usually hidden under stones, between rocks, and in their sting a poisonous, toxic substance that enters the bloodstream. Their stings are usually in the lower limbs, and their symptoms are that they cause local pain and redness.

• There are several signs that indicate this, including: excessive salivation from the mouth with tears, cough, vomiting, pain, diarrhea, rapid pulse, high blood pressure, cold sweat, rapid breathing, pupil expansion, redness in the face, the need to urinate, heat, dizziness, and fog of consciousness.

• If a person is exposed to scorpion bites, the injured person should be rested and prevented from moving to prevent the poison from flowing faster in the blood and sterilize the bite with water, soap and alcohol, and then cool the injury site with cold water and ice to reduce the spread of the poison and place a compressive link slightly over the bite site to prevent poisoning With blood, he was taken to the hospital as soon as possible to complete the treatment.

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