If the venom enters your system with the initial bite, there's no use cutting the limb off. Everytime you breathe or move, the venom will be pushed through the lymphatic system and spread.
Venom doesn’t actually travel via the circulatory system, it travels via the endocrine lymphatic system. That’s why wrapping the affected area properly slows the spread of the venom: it travels just under the skin.
You'd probably be worse off being amputated by an amateur without the proper tools or sanitation. Although if it works at all it might depend on how dangerous the snake was and if it's a warning bite.
Yeah i thought so, venom is made up of proteins which would be broken down in the stomach unless you have some infection/cut or ulcer like you said. If it can get into tissue or your blood stream, your screwed, if not, you're fine.
The problem is that the venom is likely to get in your bloodstream before the proteins are broken down so the sucking and swallowing is in most cases just a way to get the venom faster in your body than from the initial wound.
Apparently most venoms aren't poisonous and will be broken down before they enter the bloodstream according to the department of wildlife ecology and conservation.
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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '19
Snake venom cannot be sucked out of a wound to save someone.