Table 2. Snakebite treatments in Akonolinga health district.

Snakebite treatments	Victim or family (%) n = 59	Traditional healer (%) n = 25	Health center (%) n = 31
Conventional practices
Anti-venom	0 (0)	0 (0)	2 (6.5)
Intra-venous medication (any)	6 (10)	0 (0)	31 (100)
Oral medication	3 (5)	0 (0)	18 (58)
Surgical debridement	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (3)
Wound bandaging	1 (2)	0 (0)	6 (19)
Wound cleaning	1 (2)	0 (0)	4 (13)
Traditional practices
Tourniquet	48 (80)	3 (12)	0 (0)
Incision	32 (53)	18 (72)	7 (23)
Black stone	29 (48)	4 (16)	11 (36)
Urine (application or ingestion)	15 (23)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Herbs (application or ingestion)	10 (15)	22 (88)	0 (0)
Suction	3 (5)	1 (4)	0 (0)
Hot water massage	2 (3)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Prayers/chants	1 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Snake bile (ingestion)	1 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Olive oil (application)	1 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)