AN Australian mother was left terrified after she discovered that the highly venomous eastern brown snake was hiding inside her three-year-old son’s drawer while getting some of his clothes.
Australian snake hunter Mark Pelley shared the encounter online after he was called to remove the five-foot-long reptile from the toddler’s bedroom.
The Australian mother wondered how the highly venomous reptile ended up in her son’s drawer.
Some social media users were surprised as to how the mother missed noticing the eastern brown snake.
The snake hunter explained that these reptiles are lightweight making it hard to notice that you are already carrying them in your handbags or shopping bags which in some cases has already happened to other people.
He added that the snake must have crawled its way as she was picking up clothes from the clothesline without noticing the sneaky reptile’s presence.
In a similar case, a woman in her 20s was airlifted from her home in Queensland after an eastern brown snake bite her hand while she was asleep.
The Australian Venom Research Unit in Melbourne categorized the venom of eastern brown snakes as the second most toxic of all land snakes worldwide.
Their venom contains a deadly poison known as neurotoxin which paralyzes the victim’s nerves in their heart, lungs, and diaphragm, eventually causing suffocation.
If left untreated, the venom can kill its victim in less than 30 minutes.
Eastern brown snakes normally feed on rats and mice in farmlands and are common in eastern Australia but have become a cause of concern for some residents. They are active during the day and can bite if provoked.
