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Ambulance Victoria paramedics have treated a boy bitten by a snake in Launching Place this afternoon.
Advanced life support paramedics from Millgrove and Healesville and an ambulance helicopter were called to the property at 3.15pm.
Paramedic Danny Knight said they arrived within nine minutes to find the boy quite distressed.
‘He had been feeding the chickens in a chook pen when he was bitten on the leg through his tracksuit pants,’ he said.
‘The eight-year-old boy was very hot and sweaty, he had tightness across his chest, was vomiting and disorientated.
‘His mother wrapped the bite in a bandage and kept his leg elevated.
‘We put a drip in the boy’s arm and gave him fluids to help stabilise his condition.
‘We put another bandage over wound from his toes to his thigh and gave him some oxygen to help his breathing.
‘He was loaded into the ambulance helicopter and flown to the Royal Children’s Hospital in a stable condition,’ My Knight said.
ENDS.