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Dave Ewing

Our lab got herself envenomated by a rattle snake and by the time she made it home in a few hours was in a lot of pain with a large head. I made up some Vita C acid neutralized with bicarbonate about equal weight although exact amount is .45 the amount of bicarbonate to Ascorbic Acid) and made sure it was fully reacted in relatively dilute in clean water since Vitsmin C usually kills harmful pathogens anyway (not real salty to the taste and injected a fair amount in the bitten side of her face with a small needle. Probably 30 or 40 cc. She didn’t appreciate it much for sure but in an hour was feeling well enough to drink a bit with a super swelled up tongue and eat a little canned cat food, her favorite treat, so I started in with Lane Lab Lipo C and gave her probably 4 to 6 of the 1 gm C packets mixed in with the cat food the rest of the afternoon and evening along with a tablet of Benedril ground up, the C in that form is supposed to be a good 5x more effective than regular C so 6gm of C that she got the first day would be more like 30 gm of IV C . Next day continued that course with cat food and Lipo C she was much improved and by the third day end no sign of any necrosis or anything really, hard to find even where she was bitten on the cheek . As I remember I believe I did give her some ALA as well to recycle the C. She was much improved from her arthritis for a good time as well . Abby must have been 12 or so then and lived out her days on the ranch until she was 20! This after I did about the same with our prize Kiko goat ram a couple of years previously, less the cat food ! Gave him Neutral C and other antioxidants on grain to follow up for 3 days. That first round of injections in his face took tying him to a gate and my wife wore out before I was ready to stop but that had to do. Same out come, a 2x sized head perfectly normal in 3 days !
I didn’t know about homeopathy then like now and sure do appreciate the how to’s for the next time, thanks much !

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Will Falconer, DVM Moderator

Hi Lila,
So, I'm assuming the Vit C was given I.V. It'd be difficult for the average person to get this done, especially if a bite happened out in the bush.
Homeopathic remedies are a simple squirt or drop on the inner lip. Anyone can do it without any training. And, in case it wasn't clear, the remedies aren't specific to a species of snake, as my scorpion experience hinted at: venom injection will respond to one of a few choice remedies that are widely available.

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