A MAN was bitten on the head by Britain’s just fatal types of snake after it crawled into his camping tent on a camping vacation.
Tony Mohammed thinks the poisonous adder sunk its fangs into his scalp as he slept.
As well as leaving a weeping injury on Tony’s head, his eyes started to inflate as the dangerous fluid worked its method into his body.
The drama started when Tony’s spouse Karina, 39, recommended they leave the fly-sheet of their camping tent open up to keep one’s cool on the hot nights throughout their stay near Southwold, Suffolk.
Tony, 56, said: “Against my much better judgement, we left it open and a little bit more breeze can be found in.
“I was sleeping with my head towards the camping tent opening.
“At the time I believed it wasn’t a good concept — I was believing more of mosquitoes and weird crawlies — however when we opened it, I was thankful of the breeze as it was hot.
“In the early hours of the early morning, I seemed like a burning on my head. I was half sleeping and was rubbing it and after that returned to sleep.
“I got up in the morning and my forehead was streaming with this clear liquid.”
The fluid continued to exude from the injury throughout the day, so while out and about Tony chose to pop into an NHS walk-in centre to get it inspected.
The medics cleaned it up, and offered him prescription antibiotics and antihistamine cream.
The engineer started to liven up over the next 24 hr and the injury started to scab. But when that fell off, he saw the fang marks.
Tony, of Coventry, included: “When I saw the leak marks, I believed quickly, ‘That’s got to be an adder’.
“I don’t understand the number of spiders would have a fang bite that’s 1cm broad, it appears quite huge for a spider.
“My eye inflated 24 hr later on. I believe individuals on the camping area believed I’d remained in a battle. The skin there now still has a various texture to the remainder of the skin.”
Tony said the event last July has not hurt his interest for outside journeys.
He said: “It’s not put me off outdoor camping, it’s simply nature doing its thing. I most likely must have gone to the walk-in centre a bit faster than I did.
“I would advise anyone bitten to get it checked out as soon as possible.”
