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[–] qisope@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pretty sure no dog antivenom is available either. I'm just going to get a venomous snake to be safe.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why you start with small bites and build up an immunity. Then work your way up to larger breeds. You think people have chihuahuas because they actually want one?

[–] Rayspekt@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago

Best explanation as to why people have chihuahuas I've ever read.

Good call. Dog venom works by sneaking into your heart, and they don't even have to bite you.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

This is correct. Tetrodotoxin. Like in pufferfish. It blocks nerve signals to muscles causing paralysis. There is no antivenom.

If you got it from eating pufferfish, best you can do is administer activated charcoal to absorb as much as possible that hasn’t already made it into the bloodstream. After that, all you can do is manually run the heart and lungs until it wears off.

So you basically need to be really close to a hospital or clinic, somehow convey what’s happened (while possibly unable to talk or move) and be lucky enough that said hospital has the resources to maybe keep you alive until it is out of your system.