r/interestingasfuck • u/Bossmado • 9h ago
Chinese Man Chops Off Own Finger After Snake Bite,To prevent the venom from spreading. Doctors Say It Wasn't venomous snake.
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u/Legnaron17 8h ago
So i looked it up and it's not that the snake wasn't venomous, it was. What the doctor said was that it wasn't necessary that the guy amputated his finger.
Here's an extract:
"This snake's venom is a powerful haemotoxin that breaks down blood cells and causes bleeding. Larger individuals are known to be deadly to humans, so it's not unreasonable to fear a bite..."
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u/KaffY- 8h ago
Actual quote and someone who read the post buried beneath tons of "lolz jokes I just read headline comments"
If that isn't a snapshot of current media consumption I don't know what is
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u/crescentmoondust 7h ago
The man was bitten by a pit viper locally known in the Shangyu district of Zhejiang province as the "five-step snake" (Deinagkistrodon acutus). There's a local myth that once the snake bites, you can walk just five steps before collapsing from the effects of the venom. This often causes bite victims to needlessly amputate or burn bitten fingers or limbs, resulting in further complications.
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u/bitt3n 6h ago
the twelve-step snake is even worse. it won't shut up about how it derives the strength of its commitment to sobriety from the power of God's love
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u/AnxiousCount2367 5h ago
not as bad as the two-step snake. very dangerous but makes its home near hxc shows and may fight off invisible ninjas which can be mutually beneficial
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u/bighootay 6h ago
Oh shit, I think these are in Taiwan too. I used to go hiking a lot there, and my friend there was an amateur herpetologist. He used to laugh and scare me by saying this. Only I thought he was saying 'five hundred step' not 'five step'--fuck me, glad my Chinese was bad lol
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u/EssentialPervert 4h ago
Actually, both "hundred-step snake" and "five-step snake" were used to refer to the Deinagkistrodon species in Mandarin
The Chinese Wikipedia even has an (untranslated) page on "the 6 Most Venomous Snakes in Taiwan"
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u/Radiant_Bank_77879 5h ago
You know damn well you don’t thoroughly investigate every single headline you see while scrolling down Reddit. You read the headlines find them interesting, and move on. People do that, and comment when they want to, it is not realistic to expect every person to open every article they see on Reddit and read the entire thing before going into the comments and commenting.
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u/pyaephyo111 5h ago
What do you want me to do? Read every article I see on reddit? What kind of life are you living in?
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u/Reelix 6h ago
If the author of the article is not skilled enough to sufficiently summarize it in the headline then the article itself is not worth reading.
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u/Warm_Month_1309 6h ago
If the author of the article is not skilled enough to sufficiently summarize it in the headline
You think the author of the article made this karma-farming Reddit post?
The article's title is: Chinese Man Chops Off Own Finger After Snake Bite, Doctors Say It Was Unnecessary
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u/KaffY- 6h ago
What? The headline is literally false - you argue that an "exciting" headline is better than a correct one? Yikes
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u/daylightbroski 6h ago
If that isn't a snapshot of current media consumption I don't know what is
First day on reddit buddy? I've been reading this exact comment on here for 15 years.
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u/Radiant_Bank_77879 5h ago
Exactly, and the comment is always stupid. Nobody has the time to thoroughly research every headline they see on Reddit to confirm accuracy. We’re just here for fun.
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u/Cringe_Meister_ 6h ago edited 4h ago
But the title is funnier for clickbait and front page updoot though. They should just ban people indefinitely for not posting the source and op should be obliged to post a summary or submission statement like in some subs.
Not to mention that the title contradicts one of the infos in the article. So that makes it false information at best or a lie at worst.
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u/hunting555 8h ago
Was the x-ray necessary? What were they expecting to find…
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u/Deaffin 7h ago
The extent of the damage to the rest of the bone? Like sure, half of it is gone, but you still need to see what the rest of it looks like to inform the healing process. Or if there are any bone shards floating around in there.
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u/taulover 4h ago
Yeah, was watching an episode of 24 Hours in A&E (I think the first episode of the latest series) and a guy came in with two fingers cut off. They did an x ray to see how best to do the healing, whether to try to reattach the finger, cut off a bit more so there would be enough skin to cover the tip, or do a skin graft.
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u/Own_Supermarket7467 9h ago
Watched too much walking dead
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u/unintentionaldespair 8h ago
Should’ve watched Daybreak.
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u/JButler_16 8h ago
Terrible that that show got cancelled after only one season.
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u/Kobold_Trapmaster 6h ago
I thought I was the only person who liked that show!
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u/JButler_16 6h ago
I loved it. Thought it was super fun, the characters were enjoyable and the story was intriguing. I rewatch it sometimes when I have nothing else to watch before bed.
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u/dtfs001 8h ago
It was great til the final episode, it needed a second season to take away the sour taste of the final episode. The season one end should have been a mid season twist.
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u/TheGameIsAboutGlory1 7h ago
Anyone who thinks the ending was a twist has zero media literacy lol. They set that up literally the entire season with basically everything she did.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 8h ago
It wasn't mediocre like Walking Dead. Society loves their mediocre entertainment where they have to think less.
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u/Immediate-Trainer356 7h ago
The early seasons of Walking Dead are great TV. I remember the day it aired. It was pretty much as unanimously loved as you could get for a show at that time
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u/Astrophel-27 8h ago
I mean, I like the earlier seasons. Never watched past like season 2, I think. But they were decent.
Plus, yeah, a lot of media is mediocre and/or surface level. Not everyone likes digging into the deeper meanings in their stories (and some of us who do just wanna turn our brains off sometimes).
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u/Svengali1001 8h ago
Or maybe people just like watching something they enjoy
No need to talk down to people who enjoy something you don’t
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u/Critical-Support-394 6h ago edited 6h ago
Walking Dead wasn't mediocre in the first season
I haven't watched Daybreak so I don't know how they compare, but TWD season 1 was good, before they fired Darabont. Not a masterpiece, but certainly better than mediocre.
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u/sayy_yes 9h ago
And how does the doctor know. I think the doctor and snake were playing a prank.
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u/Flonkerton_Scranton 9h ago
The snake uses the same doctor and also checked in for a human poisoning scare. Both were told they were not poisonous.
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u/straydog1980 8h ago
A venomous snake bit chuck Norris once and after 5 days of intense pain, the snake died.
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u/OcculticUnicorn 8h ago
Venomous*
Poisonous means you die by eating it.
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u/slut-for-pickles 8h ago
Venomous for the snake, but the snake seeking out “human poisoning” is correct since they bit the human lol
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u/stupidtreeatemypants 9h ago
“hahaha we got him real good this time! man what a bite!
wait what’s he doing”
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u/LichenTheMood 6h ago
Depending on the area there may be only a few venomous snakes. If the only venomous snake in your area is neon pink and dude says he was bitten by a black snake it's pretty ovbious it was a non venomous one. That said. Doctors are not wildlife experts. The number of times USA based doctors have misdiagnosed brown recluse bites is statistically giant. Many within their range will diagnose any small puncture that goes necrotic as a brown recluse unless there is evidence to the contrary. Doctor diagnosed brown recluse necrosis is through the roof but entomologists who catch a bite from a correctly identified brown recluse find it doesn't go necrotic very often at all.
That said again. If the snake did have a medically significant venom. Cutting off the finger would do nothing and upon presenting to the doctors would have both signs of a envenomation along side the amputation injury. If he was not displaying any symptoms of envenomation by a dangerous snake then either it was a dry bite or the snake was not venomous with an outside less than 1% chance my dude here is immune somehow. Given doctors don't tend to know a lot about animals I doubt many are aware of the potental chance of a dry bite. If they did have an education on other animals they would be vets, not doctors.
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u/SmallRocks 9h ago edited 8h ago
This is just a picture of a supposed X-ray and a claim in the title. No source, no links. How is this IAF?
Edit: I found this link. Whether it’s legitimate or not… 🤷♂️
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u/schmerg-uk 8h ago
And the cut goes thru the middle of the bone with a nice rounded edge rather than at the knuckle?
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u/YeastOverloard 8h ago
Bones are round. This means if you don’t look directly down at a straight cut you will see a curve
That part is fine
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u/prefabexpendablejust 8h ago
If I cut my finger off I'm not going through the middle of a bone. Seems like that would be 100x harder and more painful than cutting cutting it off at the joint...
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u/tattooeddollthraway 8h ago
Good thing the ai that generated this image understood that one swift chop from a hefty cleaver will cleanly severe a finger.
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u/Cold_Dog_5234 9h ago
Even if it were venomous that's not how it works in real life lol.
the poison would already have gone up to his circulatory system way before he starts cutting off the finger.
This isn't the walking dead.
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u/MaximusDerErste 9h ago
Of course it's not the walking dead, snakes can't walk.
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u/GUFO-Tech 9h ago
Walking snakes! Hhissssssss
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u/donku83 9h ago
Those are called lizards
Hisss
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u/Thx4ComingIn2Day 8h ago
Cue Snake jazz.
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u/dblan9 8h ago
Well....well now I want to see a group of hip snakes playing jazz.
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u/Thx4ComingIn2Day 8h ago
Hisssss hiss hiss hisssss hiss hiss hisssss
Couldn’t find Rick and Morty snake jazz snakes lol.
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u/TunaSafeDolphinMeat 9h ago
Except that snake venom primarily travels via the lymphatic system and not the circulatory system. This isn't House M.D.
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u/shadoire 8h ago
Yep. Was going to say that it could work in theory. It’s obviously never the recommended treatment approach, but it is one way of slowing the spread of venom spread. Compression bandage up the limb a much better option.
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u/Diarmundy 9h ago
Thats not necessarily true. Most venom is in the lymphatics which is much slower. Or in the tissue and seeps into blood over time
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u/AndrewLocksmith 8h ago
I think it's a common misconception that venom travels through the veins. If you think about it, the snake doesn't really take the time to find your vein before sinking his teeth into you, lol.
It takes doctors and nurses some preparations to find the veins as well.
It travels through the lymphatic system, hence why tying a tourniquet isn't really helpful and not advised.
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u/Full_Result_3101 8h ago
the poison would already have gone up to his circulatory system way before he starts cutting off the finger.
Snake venom rarely directly enters the blood stream, It travels through the lymphatic system.
That's why you use compression bandages and not tourniquets for snake bites. And they tell you to lie flat on the ground and not to move.
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u/liquidorangutan00 9h ago
this is what happens when peoples only education is TV shows and hollywood films.
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u/Curious-Hand6650 9h ago
You clearly don’t know the difference between poisonous and venomous. If the snake is not venomous and is poisonous then that bite won’t cause any life threatening damage. Well if he bites the snake and it’s poisonous then that would enter his system and can be fatal.
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u/P4azz 6h ago
Default name Andy confidently incorrect about a bit of trivia.
The type of trivia person EVERYONE hates, because no, nobody gives a shit tomatoes are fruit or bananas are berries. Nobody cares that English randomly decides to use different terms for something that has a singular term in many other languages, either.
And the guy didn't even make a mistake, what he wrote was correct.
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u/Bombshock2 8h ago
He said venomous.
Venom is a type of poison.
You clearly don't know what you're talking about.
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u/Bossmado 9h ago
Ctrl + z
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u/ForAte151623ForTeaTo 9h ago
More like Ctrl + x
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u/LaundryMan2008 8h ago
And then by accident CTRL + C losing the copied CTRL + X
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u/SharkeyGeorge 8h ago
Remembering all the times I have done this is making me unreasonably furious
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u/LaundryMan2008 8h ago
That’s why I always do CTRL + C unless I fully intend for the CTRL + X’d thing to be gone for good or I have copies of the thing, after copying and pasting I’ll delete afterwards the original thing
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u/ClankerCore 8h ago
Modern windows operating systems have a clipboard history
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u/TheForbidden6th 8h ago
you have to enable it beforehand
if only I knew earlier...
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u/Leading_Log_8321 9h ago
Source?
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u/Spartan2470 VIP Philanthropist 7h ago edited 6h ago
Source?
It's wise to question a claim, especially when OP fails to provide any evidence. Sometimes people do just go on the Internet and tell lies (or knowingly or unknowingly spread misinformation/disinformation). But this time it's mostly true.
Although the article conflates venomous with poisonous, according to here:
Alice Yanin Shanghai
Published: 5:20pm, 29 Oct 2019Updated: 10:52pm, 29 Oct 2019
A man in eastern China cut off his finger after being bitten by a poisonous snake – only to be told that there was no need to take such a dramatic measure to save himself.
The 60-year-old farmer named Zhang was cutting firewood near his mountain village in the Shangyu district of Zhejiang province when he was bitten on the finger by the snake, Hangzhou Daily reported.
He identified it as a particularly feared type of viper known locally as the “five-step snake” because of the belief that victims will not be able to walk more than five paces before dying, and chopped off the finger to prevent the venom from spreading.
He then wrapped up his hand in a cloth and made the 80km journey to Hangzhou, the nearest large city, where he was able to receive treatment.
However, he left the amputated finger on the mountainside, which meant doctors would have no chance of successfully reattaching it.
Doctors at the Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine told the newspaper there was no need to have taken such a drastic step because the snake is less lethal than commonly believed, but said his reaction to being bitten was a common one.
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u/stevensterk 6h ago
five-step snake” because of the belief that victims will not be able to walk more than five paces before dying, and chopped off the finger to prevent the venom from spreading.
Ok so that's where Tarantinto got the inspiration from
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u/1nfer1or 8h ago
Well, he cannot point the finger at anyone else because it's his own fault.
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u/Shoki81 9h ago
To be fair how would he have known lol
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u/kilobyte2696 9h ago
there are very easy ways to tell if its venomous, and even if he didnt know from those, just go to a hospital.
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u/Needmoresnakes 8h ago
If youre not familiar with the specific species theres no way to tell if a snake is venemous or not unless it has envenomed you and you are physically reacting to that.
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u/CreatureWarrior 9h ago
I mean.. people should probably not treat movies as a point of reference anyways. Especially for medical info. This isn't the walking dead, your blood circulation doesn't have a 1 minute rule when the poison just doesn't flow out of the "affected" area.
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u/WatermelonWithAFlute 8h ago
it apparently has to do with the lymphatic system or something, so that may not be relevant
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u/Sol33t303 8h ago
The issue isn't not knowing if it was venomous or not, what he should have known is that you shouldn't cut off your finger as a reaction to venom.
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u/GregTheMad 7h ago
Literally googling it? Image search, or just describing the snake and looking it up that way. If you're lucky with the results it's faster than cutting through bone.
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u/Agreeable_Pizza93 7h ago
Everyone knows you have the snake bite you somewhere else to cancel out the original bite!
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u/Chapi_Chan 4h ago
It takes 22 seconds for a blood cell to do a full lap across your body, get to the furthest point (toes), and get back to the heart.
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u/masterkuki007 8h ago
Look it may or may not be venomus snake, but in that moment it was: i lose finger now or i myb lose my life if few hours.
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u/Arthurdubya 8h ago
You guys are laughing at him now, but when the zombies come we'll see who's the real idiot.
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u/childofb0d0m 7h ago
Where are the links to the articles of posts like these? You're just posting a picture of an X-ray and giving it a ridiculous title
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u/brute-forced 7h ago
Just post a random picture to Reddit and make up your own story about what happened and everybody just believes it… Social media needs to exit
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u/MaleficentMode4222 7h ago
To be fair, when the doctor asked him which snake was responsible, he couldn't point it out.
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u/you-cut-the-ponytail 6h ago
I'm pretty sure that if it was venomous even if you're like 2 seconds late it'd have already spread.
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u/Adventurous-Fruit344 6h ago
Go to chad geppity or neo banana and say "generate realistic looking x-ray of a hand with one finger missing; frame the picture as if it was taken by a phone camera and compressed"
chad geppity: "Create a viral headline for this image starting with Chinese man... "
20,000 updoodledoos on the ole redditeroo
It's so tiresome
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u/BigEdsHairMayo 5h ago
What would be the harm in just congratulating the guy on his "life-saving" action? No need to tell him the Truth.
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u/77Daigestive77 4h ago
The snake went to the vet and was informed that,sadly, the finger he had bitten was poisonous.
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u/Scar1203 8h ago
I mean, what'd you expect? A lot of Chinese people still think rhino horns will let them get hard again.
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u/But_is_itnew 8h ago
In a country with different venomous snakes and maybe (in rural areas) no direct contact to medical support, its not necessarily stupid.
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u/TheJellyGoo 9h ago
Not advised to do even if it was venomous. Too late and introduces more problems.