First Aid Kits---Snake Bite Kit

During an emergency, some people will move out of the area on foot. If you live in an area where there are poisonous snakes, you might want to include a snake bite kit. What kind is best? According to Wilderness medical experts, snake-bite kits, ice, electric shock treatment, constriction and those tiny kits with razor-sharp blades and miniature rubber suction cups are not safe, and can do much more harm that good when treating for a snake bite. The Sawyer Extractor is the only snake bite kit that is actually acknowledged as useful in certain situations. The recommended first aid? Get the victim to a hospital where antivenin may be given safely.

Not only is The Extractor useful for snake bites, but it is also useful for the bites and stings of bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, fire ants, ticks, scorpions, mosquitoes, spiders, flies, and marine life. The Extractor pump removes the poisons which cause the pain. To use, you simply thrust the plunger downward, using the thumb and two finger's.

The Sawyer Extractor can easily be found on the internet.