Best way not to get bitten by a snake is to leave them alone and they will move on

Snakes are not interested in you as food apart from extremely large pythons who might think you

would make a tasty snack

Keep the grass cut short around your home amd do not leave things on the ground they can hide under

If you have pets and have no option except to dispose of a snake for their safety use a long handled hoe

If you have snakes around keep your doors closed it only takes seconds for one to get into your house

Worked in the bush in Australia and saw snakes all the time and have seen plenty here as well but only

dispose of them when absolutely nessecary and poisonuos snakes only

Didn't know snakes were this big of a problem in Phuket. Thought there were snakes but didn't know they were poisonous.

My wife will freak out! What are some good preventive anti-snake measures? Any sprays or anything work to keep them away from the house? Apartments over a few stories high have these issues as well?

The rain is coming, with rain comes frogs, with frogs comes snakes.

My wife is going to love this!

You will probably never see one if you walk normally and don;t creep around theywill get out of your way

That's the cobras and similar snakes that hunt their prey

Vipers and Adders which are ambush hunters will not get out of your way but they generally live in rural and forrest areas

and occasionally in apartment blocks once domesticated

Be careful with the anti-venom because many people have bad reactions to it - quite severe sometimes. ...

Correct. In fact, the reactions to antivenom can be fatal.

Anti-venom should not be administered outside a medical facility unless there is really no other choice i.e. the risks of doing so are lerss than the risks of not doing so.

King Cobra bite would usually apply as that venom is very quick acting. Ditto krait,

Regular cobra bites - you usually have an hour to get to a health facility. (An hour from when the bite occurred). Rare reports of onset in less time.

Vipers - you have plenty of time.

While you may be quite far from the nearest hospital, there is almost surely a government health center nearby, many of these are equipped with an ambulance and even outside normal hours a doctor or nurse should be on call. Suggest you investigate this for future reference - HC will not have anti-venom but the staff can manage reactions to it as well as provide basic life support if needed while the patient is transferred to a hospital.

Another point to be aware if is that bites do not always lead to envenomation.

While not an answer to the OP, I came across this related article in the NY Times that discusses neostigmine which can apparently reverse the paralysis related with some bites:

http://nyti.ms/1gl2I94

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There is a natural home brew made from some plant that the village snake charmers drink, it allegedly helps cobra venom to be less toxic or something, seen it on a documentary.

Anyone heard of know anything about that?

On 1/13/2013 at 3:52 AM, Fgis said:

You are right: http://www.snake-antivenin.com

 

Do we know if any antivenin for human can be used on dogs ?!

 

 

6 hours ago, myjawe said:

 

Do we know if any antivenin for human can be used on dogs ?!

 

 

Plenty of answers on Google.