A rattlesnake has bitten a teenager after lurking outside a family home. Bryce Russell, 19, sustained the poisonous snake bite as he left his Norco house in on Sunday afternoon.In CCTV footage the snake can be seen hidden beneath a chair on the porch by the front door of the house.   A rattlesnake has bitten a teenager after lurking outside a family home Bryce Russell, 19, sustained the poisonous snake bite as he left his Norco house in California on Sunday afternoonFootage then captured the moment the snake made a lunge pills for pain relief Russell, sending him leaping into the air in pain. 'I stepped down on the front porch, hear it rattle and it bites me,' the teen told on Wednesday. He added that the pain wasn't too bad but he began to 'feel a sense of dread' when he noticed the venom start to inflame his foot and work its way up.  RELATED ARTICLES



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'My face, tongue and lips were kind of tingling, I guess that's an effect of the venom,' snakebite victim Bryce Russell said Fortunately, Russell's mother and sister were both nurses and stepped in to help him before paramedics arrived on the scene. 'My face, tongue and lips were kind of tingling, I guess that's an effect of the venom,' he said. He was administered a total of 24 vials of anti-venom and spent two days at Corona Regional Medical Center.  Russell's sister beheaded the snake and took the body to a taxidermist, with plans to make a belt out of it. Rattlesnake bites are venomous and can be dangerous. Victims require urgent medical attention although such incidents are rarely fatal if treated quickly.       



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