How to effectively prevent snake injuries when traveling in spring and summer?

This stage is the busy season of spring blossoms, spring ploughing and spring planting, and the flowers in the city

How to effectively prevent snake injuries when traveling in spring and summer?

This stage is the busy season of spring blossoms, spring ploughing and spring planting, and the flowers in the city also let people in many cities enjoy flowers in spring.

Friends who are familiar with the twelve solar terms also know that after the "shocking" solar term, various insects began to return to the ground after several months of hibernation. After the Qingming Festival, snakes in the south gradually became active, even appearing in suburbs and communities, which brought a lot of panic to mankind. So how can we effectively prevent snake injuries in this season? Share some experiences with you.

First, the living habits of snakes.

Because snakes like to live in cool, humid and quiet places, they generally live in forests, streams and grasslands in mountainous areas, especially in weeds, rocky piles, old houses, old warehouses, streams and woodpiles. Snakes usually feed on insects, rodents, birds, poultry and other meat and eggs, and sometimes they devour each other.

Snakes are afraid of humans, sounds, vibrations and pungent smells. Generally, they don't take the initiative to attack humans unless they touch the snake's body or get too close to it.

Second, precautions against snakes during the day

When people travel to the suburbs, they should first apply a strong-smelling anti-mosquito ointment to the exposed parts of their bodies, preferably to prevent mosquitoes, bees and snakes.

What ancestors left to future generations is a valuable spiritual wealth and the crystallization of human wisdom. Mountain tourism should try to find a wooden stick to hold in your hand, so as to facilitate walking and prevent wrestling, and at the same time prevent wild animals from attacking. Of course, it is very useful to drive away snakes. When walking, you can hit miscellaneous trees, shrubs, rocks, trunks, etc. with wooden sticks to cause sound and vibration, which can drive away snakes and other animals to a certain extent and protect human beings.

Third, precautions against snakes at night.

Night is the most active time for snakes, and it is also the time when they enter the crowd activity area the most. We will find that most snake injuries occur at night. In rural areas and suburbs, if you walk at night, you'd better have good lighting, take the main road, the road is unknown or unclear, so you need to walk slowly, and don't walk on the black road in front (such as ridges, slopes, rocks, etc.). ) When walking at night, you need to strike a heavy object with a wooden stick to scare the snake. When you pass through the Woods and orchards at night, you can throw a few stones into the Woods first and make a noise to scare the animals. In short, even under good lighting conditions, we should try to pass through forests and other areas slowly.

It should be emphasized that the focus of this paper is how to prevent snakes. However, if people really meet a snake in the wild, try not to stimulate it, let alone beat it with a stick in your hand to see if it escapes. If it escapes, people will leave. If they don't, they can throw other pebbles in the distance to interfere with their reaction. If you meet a snake in a crowd's residence and see that it hasn't left, you should call the police and ask professionals to expel it.

This article was created by Cui Xinmin, former director of emergency department of Three Gorges Hospital affiliated to Chongqing University. Welcome to discuss.