Western Hognose

[eyespy]

I'm deathly allergic to bees and natural rubber latex, to the point where my heart has stopped 14 times and I've had to be rescuscitated but I have no reaction to the hemotoxin in a plains garter snake bite.

An example of one certainly isn't a scientific sample, though, and I've never even held a hognose.

[shaggybill]

Hemotoxin in a plains garter snake? Are you talking about the anti-coagulent properties in their saliva? Is that called hemotoxins?

[eyespy]

Plains and wandering garters have both anticoagulant enzymes and hemotoxins that are secreted by their Duvernoy's gland.

[shaggybill]

So are these hemotoxins something to be real careful about? I know they arent serious like a rattler or something, but what are the affects of it?

[Matt]

the Duv. Gland secretions are not serious at all, unlesss you are allergic to a protein in it....but the secreation in itself, is nothing like rattler hemotoxins

[eyespy]

It can't even kill a bullfrog so people are safe, the worst that happens is a wicked bruise.