Scots dad bitten by snake hidden in beer bottle spends three nights in hospital
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots dad bitten by snake hidden in beer bottle spends three nights in hospital being treated with antivenom. Doctors told Warren Soulsby that his blood had literally curdled after the strike by the UK's only venemous snake.Warren said he felt a "wee nip" on his left little finger while clearing overgrown bushes from around street signs close to the A1 in the Borders.
The 25-year-old assumed it was a thorn that had lodged into his flesh but soon discovered it was caused by a hibernating adder rudely awoken when the glass beer bottle it was snoozing in was flung to one side by Warren to avoid shattering it with his petrol strimmer.The dad-of-two reckons the critter was desperate to make an escape from the bottleneck and clamped down on Warren's finger as it shot out, mid-air.But minutes later the highway maintenance worker, operating on a stretch of the A1 in Coldingham, Borders, started feeling light-headed, dizzy and sick and went to his van to get a drink.A concerned colleague looked at his hand and noticed two puncture marks that kept bleeding and insisted that he go to hospital.
Doctors ran tests that revealed his blood was twice the viscosity it should be and hooked him up to an IV.Antivenom was ordered and had to be sped to Edinburgh from Manchester by a team on motorbikes.
Following a 72-hour hospital stay that involved two doses of antivenom, painkillers and anxiety medication, Warren was discharged with no long-term effects.After his ordeal in February last year, Warren is now urging people to stick to established paths in grassy areas and give the slithering critters a wide berth to avoid the same fate.Warren, from Tranent, East Lothian, said: "When I saw two puncture marks dripping with blood, I didn't
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