Snake Bite Bandage with Indicator (Suits Legs)

You'll reach for whatever bandage is closest when it matters, and that's exactly the problem. Most Australian snake bites happen on the lower limbs, and running out of bandage halfway up an adult leg isn't a minor inconvenience — it's an incomplete pressure immobilisation, which is close to no pressure immobilisation at all. Most standard bandages aren't long enough for that job. This one is.

This snake bite bandage stretches to 10.5 metres — enough to wrap a full adult leg in one roll, no stopping partway to improvise with a second bandage while someone's watching you and getting more scared by the second. Fits any of our snake bite kits, or any existing first aid kit that's carrying the wrong length.

• 10cm x 10.5m stretched — long enough for full adult leg immobilisation You won't know you've run short until you're already partway up the limb, and by then it's too late to fix without unwrapping and starting again. Correct pressure immobilisation technique means the whole limb, bite site to groin, in one continuous wrap — this bandage is built long enough that you never have to think about running out.
• Continuous tension indicators over the entire length Your instinct will be to guess how tight is tight enough — don't. Printed rectangles turn to squares when you've reached correct compression, the whole way along this snake bite compression bandage, not just near the start. Too loose and it won't slow the venom. Too tight and you've cut off circulation instead. You'll know you've got it right, instead of hoping you have.
• Heavyweight conforming bandage — not a standard crepe A standard crepe bandage loosens the moment someone moves, which defeats the whole point of pressure immobilisation. This one's woven to hold its pressure once it's on. Practise with it before you need it — you want your hands to already know the feel of it under real pressure.
• Suited to snake bites, funnel-web spider bites, blue-ringed octopus, and cone shell stings One bandage, one technique, four different creatures — that's the whole point of pressure immobilisation. It's not the right call for redback spider bites, jellyfish stings, stonefish, or scorpion stings, though — read our guide if you're not sure which applies.

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