Contents:
- Medical Video: 13 Tips on How to Survive Wild Animal Attacks
- Some toxic animals are rarely known
- 1. Sea urchins
- 2. Puffer fish
- 3. Stonefish
- 4. Komodo
Medical Video: 13 Tips on How to Survive Wild Animal Attacks
What poisonous or poisonous animals cross your mind first? Maybe the answer is snakes and scorpions. However, there are many other animals that you might encounter (even consume!) Around, but it turns out to be toxic. Anything?
Some toxic animals are rarely known
1. Sea urchins
Sea urchins orsea urchin still one family with starfish. But the difference is, sea urchins are armed with calcium-filled spines which are poisonous around their bodies. Some species have venomous spines with more dangerous and potentially deadly side effects.
Stings from sea urchin spines can be very painful and can cause allergic reactions, sudden fatigue, body weakness, muscle aches, temporary paralysis, damage to the skin around the sting area, bone damage, to shock. Although rare, stinging sea urchins can cause respiratory problems and even death.
Sea urchins can be left on the skin. The longer you leave it, the harder it will be to get out. Therefore, immediately quickly remove the thorns after you are stung. However, do not use tweezers to take it because the thorns can break inside and remain on the skin. If this happens, soak your feet with vinegar or warm water.
Warm compresses and pain relievers like ibuprofen can help relieve pain and swelling. If the scar is red or itchy, apply a hydrocortisone cream that you can buy at a pharmacy without a prescription.
2. Puffer fish
Puffer fish orblowfishoften cultivated into consumption fish, especially in Japan. In Indonesia alone, puffer fish are also often kept as ornamental fish.
Unfortunately, puffer fish is known as the second most poisonous vertebrate in the world after the golden poison frog. Liver (pale) liver pufferfish contains a high dose of tetrodotoxin. Tetrodotoxin is one of the most deadly types of poisons. Small doses of tetrodotoxin are also found in the skin of the fish.
Common symptoms of pufferfish poisoning generally begin with numbness and tingling around the mouth, to nausea and vomiting that occurs 10-45 minutes after exposure to puffer fish poison. If you don't get medical treatment immediately, your body can slowly become paralyzed, lose consciousness, have difficulty breathing, and can even cause death.
The first aid that must be given to victims of poison pufferfish is to force vomiting within 3 hours after the last time you ate it. Immediately tilt his body after vomiting so as not to choke and suffocate his own vomit. Give artificial breath (CPR) if the victim seems unable to breathe. Take the victim to the hospital as soon as possible to get the antidote.
3. Stonefish
Indonesian waters seem to be the ideal dwelling for a number of poisonous animals. After sea urchins, pufferfish, and box jellyfish, you also need to watch out for lionfish.
Stone lionfish (Synanceia verrucosa) is one of the deadliest poisons in the world. Interestingly, although these fish are rarely found in the wild, Indonesians cultivate them with very high selling prices to maintain or even eat.
Stone fish has a deadly poisonous needle on its hidden face and will come out like a "folding knife" when it feels threatened. The poison of ika stone can cause crippling and fatal nerve damage, especially if the dosage is large. The effect will be most dangerous if it enters the body through touch. Toxins will break and break down in the human digestive system, so the effects that appear may not be as heavy as passing touch.
After being exposed to toxic fish rocks, immediately soak or compress the injured skin with hot water (not boiling). The hot temperature will break down the protein from the poison so that it prevents it from spreading further into the body. Then immediately go to the hospital to get antidote. Late getting treatment more than 2 hours after high-risk exposure ends in death.
4. Komodo
Who is not familiar with the largest reptile in the world which is also the icon of Indonesia's tourism?
Komodo (Varanus komodoensis) are poisonous animals. Toxins from Komodo dragons can cause muscle paralysis, reduce blood pressure very quickly and drastically, blood clotting disorders, to severe wound infections. This reaction is mostly caused by bacteria that live in the saliva of dragons and then enter the bloodstream.
This reptile that has the nickname "Dragon" is actually a loner and does not prey on humans. However, just like other animals, dragons can attack humans if they feel threatened. Not all cases of dragons attack humans end deadly. It was only in 2007, a Komodo dragon reportedly bit and killed an 8-year-old boy on Komodo Island. This case marks the first fatal Komodo dragon attack in the last 33 years, reports The Smithsonian Magazine.
