Citation

Mukda Trishnananda, Sararat Yongchaiyudha, Vimala Chayodom. Southeast Asian J. Trop. Med. Public Health 1978; 9(1): 71-73.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, SEAMO Regional Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

705419

Abstract

A clinical trial of corticosteroid treatment in five cases of cobra, Naja naja, bite with systemic poisoning is reported. The results reveal that corticosteroid had no demonstrable beneficial effect in the neurotoxic poisoning of the cobra. Specific antivenom is the most important therapeutic agent for systemic poisoning. The combination of antivenom and corticosteroid had no effect on the development of local necrosis.

Language: en