In severe cases: Antivenom treatment may be required.
An Antivenom was developed by Mexican company Bioclon.
This, they hope, can provide a blueprint for developing more effective Antivenom.
Two types of Antivenom are made specifically to treat king cobra envenomations.
Cases were assessed as requiring Antivenom, and 84 cases received treatment with Antivenom.
For such places, creating effective Antivenom can be a matter of life or death.
Accordingly, large quantities of Antivenom may be needed to reverse the progression
of symptoms developed if bitten by a king cobra.
Whilst these numbers may appear low it has only been this way since the advent of Antivenom.
A few years ago,
the only FDA-approved coral snake Antivenom in the United States got discontinued.
Antivenom is currently produced by a century-old process-
a small amount of venom is injected into a horse(or a sheep), which produces antibodies that are then collected and developed into Antivenom.
One more problem with horse antibodies-
our immune system recognises it as foreign and when Antivenom is given our body mounts an antibody response.
One more problem with horse antibodies-
our immune system recognises it as foreign and when Antivenom is given our body mounts an antibody
response… This leads to what is called serum sickness,