Snake bites, although less common than stings, can cause just as many problems. Your immediate task is to determine whether your child has been bitten by a poisonous snake.
Call your doctor, poison center, or local emergency room and be prepared to describe what the snake looked like. Your child may need an injection of an antivenom serum as quickly as possible.
Until you can get her to a hospital emergency room, don't give her anything to eat or drink, and try to keep the bitten region of her body lower than the heart. Constricting bands may be placed two inches above and below the bite site, or only above the bite if it is located near the end of a limb; the bands should not cut off the pulse or the blood flow through the arteries. On you way to the emergency room, keep the are cool by placing ice on it.
