1Assist. Prof, PhD, MScN, College of Nursing/University of Mosul/Iraq)
2Assist. Lecture, MScN, College of Nursing/University of Mosul/Iraq)
Every year, many adults and kids were bitten by snakes. However, the overwhelming majority of research studies conducted in Iraq and other nations reveal that kids are combative.
The purpose of the current study was to determine how frequently kids in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate suffer snake bites.
This research examines incidents of snake bites that were reported over a ten-year period, from 2011 to 2020, to the Ministry of Health and Environmental/Department of Nineveh.
According to the findings, 70.14 percent of the patients were men. The patients’ median age was 6.7 years, with a standard deviation of 2.05 years. The majority of bite victims (33.6%) were children between the ages of 9 and 12; more than half (68.04%) of snake bites were in public settings, while nearly one-third (29.57%) happened at home.
This study concluded that children of the male sex are the highest percentage of girls. The reason is that male children have more fun and play than girls in public places where snakes abound. Finally, the rate of infection in the countryside was much higher than in the city, and this is why the countryside contains farms, gardens and deserts where snakes abound.
Prevalence, Snake bite, Children
