A 10 year old girl was rushed to hospital after suffering a snake bite when an adder attacked her.
Mollie Hawker was walking with her family on Turbary Common, Bournemouth when the snake bit her toe. After a few minutes Mollie was in so much pain she was unable to walk and had to be carried, her leg began to swell to enormous proportions, first turning red then a nasty looking black and purple.
Initially Mollie was instructed by her parents to raise her injured leg to try to alleviate the swelling, but when this failed she was taken to Poole hospital for treatment. She was placed on an intravenous morphine drip to combat the severe pain, given antibiotics and hooked up to a heart monitor.
Mollie’s mum, Karen Hawker is now warning parents not to make the same mistakes she did on that fateful day. The advice given by health experts is to always keep a snake bite lower than the heart to prevent the poison from spreading too quickly and seek urgent help.
Mollie has a painful looking black blister where the snake bit her, but is otherwise well on the way to a full recovery.
