Scorpion antidote is finally available for serious stings!

08.04.2011 - It's about time! Finally, an antidote for scorpion stings has been approved by the FDA. It was developed in Mexico, where over a quarter of a million scorpion stings are reported every single year.

In most adults scorpion stings are terribly painful and the symptoms last about 24 hours. In children it can be deadly. Small children injured by scorpion stings can have pain, difficulty breathing and even temporary blindness. If your child is showing severe signs of trouble as a result of a scorpion sting take him or her to the hospital immediately. Currently only certain hospitals carried experimental antidotes. With this new approval, the antidote (called Anascorp) can soon be available everywhere. In the test studies when children were treated with the scorpion antidote their painful and dangerous symptoms usually disappeared within a few hours. This is wonderful news for those of us living in scorpion country!

Additional details can be found here.

It's great to see progress being made on treating something that almost all of us gardeners have had to deal with while living in the desert!