I do believe I will have children in the future. While there aren't very many venomous snakes or snakes at all in Franklin County, I won't necessarily live there when I move with my parents. Unlike most parents my parents know that I will never be able to be fully independent and will help me if possible during the pains of pregnancy and labor and depression just from being sleep deprived after birth.
And what if my future husband has living relatives in places where there are lots of venomous snakes or there is some kind of natural disaster?
The only thing I can find on treating snakebites is adults and children, no infants.
But if I do have children they might get bit by a venomous snake when they are infants.
I am pretty sure that treating snakebites in infants is much different than in children or adults, especially if the snakebite was from a venomous snake. The reason is that infant first aid is usually much different than child or adult first aid.
I know that snake venom can be deadly to anyone. I also know that snake antivenom can be deadly to infants.
So I know that I would have to go to the hospital asap if my baby has a snakebite. But what else should I do? I mean babies don't have much muscle control when it comes to their arms and legs and they have a faster heart rate to begin with so those 2 combined + the pain of the bite would make the venom spread very fast which is exactly what I don't want.
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