A young girl in Caracas, Venezuela, lies in a hospital bed caught between life and death after a snake bite caused her leg muscle cells to wither away and die.
The 13-year-old girl, who is unidentified, was first treated by remedies from her indigenous culture before being transferred to Venezuela’s capital city for emergency medical treatment a month later.
It was there that doctors diagnosed the teen with severe necrosis, induced by the snake venom, with a grim prognosis of death even after a leg amputation.
According to a photo posted on Instagram by the username “juventudmedica,” the young girl received medical treatment after a month of using something similar to antibiotics.
The rural treatment she received most likely only is able to treat local infection secondary to the bite.
The Instagram description written by Dr. Moreno Castillo, a surgeon specializing in trauma and orthopedics in the Central University of Venezuela and the University Hospital of Caracas, acknowledged the patient also suffered a broken elbow from the incident with the snake. CONTINUE READING
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