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WA TODDLER RUSHED TO HOSPITAL AFTER BACKYARD BITE FROM DEADLY SNAKE

By 9News Staff
11:49pm Oct 26, 2022

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BOY, 2, BITTEN BY ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S DEADLIEST SNAKES

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A Western Australian mother is warning parents to be on alert after her toddler
survived a bite from one of the world's deadliest snakes.
Arlo Kohn had been playing in the family backyard on Sunday when he showed his
mum two small puncture wounds above his ankle.
There was no reptile in sight but Tirsha Craven's older son had seen a snake a
few days earlier so she wasn't taking any chances.

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Arlo Kohn was playing in the family backyard when he was bitten by a snake.
(9News)
"He asked me to take his shoe off because he said 'oh, mummy my foot's sore' …
,"she said.
"His foot was like a balloon and it was like really had and hot to the touch.
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"And then I looked closer and there was two little fang marks and I was like
'oh, we're in trouble'."
By the time Arlo had made the 35-kilometre journey from York, about an hour and
20 minutes east of Perth, to Northam Regional Hospital, the two-year-old had
gone limp.
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Arlo Kohn was playing in the family backyard in York, Western Australia, when he
was bitten by a snake. Tirsha Craven saw the fang marks and acted quickly.
(9News)
An hour later, venom tests revealed he'd been bitten by one of Australia's most
deadly snakes.
"His blood levels have showed like, deterioration of the muscles and affecting
the kidneys, from where the venom's flushing through," she told 9News.
By the time Arlo got to hospital, he'd gone limp. (9News)
Just two hours after the bite, Arlo was treated with black snake antivenom, used
to save bite victims from species including tiger snakes and western browns,
which are the most common in WA's Wheatbelt region.
The family was told it was most likely the western brown, one the world's
deadliest.
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Experts said if his mum hadn't taken such quick action, the outcome could've
been very different.
As we head into the worst season for snake bites, health authorities say the
most important steps are calling triple zero immediately, applying pressure to
the wound and not washing the bitten area.
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