Arizona a young child returned home after a six -day stay in hospital and treatment with 30 antidomic vials for two Rattlesnake bites.
While playing in his yard on May 16, the 15-month-old Kara Reed was bitten by a rattle twice on the left leg, as reported by the Arizona Republic, part of the USA Today network. Kara Jacqueline Reed’s mother told the USA Today after her release from Phoenix’s Children’s Hospital that she is still recovering.
“She laughs once and giggles once, so we are excited that she may start to come back before she has to return,” Jacqueline said.
In a Facebook publication a few days earlier, she was called Kara “Really Miracle”, but said the trauma “temporarily changed her life’s personality.”
The Republic of Arizona: Florence Mom and Nurse behaved quickly to save a daughter bitten by Rattlesnake
When did it happen to Kara Reed?
While playing in the Florence Family Park, Arizona, which is only more than 60 miles southeast of Phoenix, Reed was bitten twice by a rattle that appeared from a nearby tank with propane, the Arizona Republic reported. Jacqueline initially took Reed to the nearby emergency room before being transferred to the Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
Once at the Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Reed’s medical team focused on adjusting the decreased oxygen levels of a young child due to the poison, the Arizona Republic reported.
In a Facebook publication on May 21, Jacqueline said that Kara was still showing signs of weakness, and since she was unable to pass a swallow test, she was given a food tube in her nose.
Reed remains on a respiratory pipe until May 19, reports the Republic of Arizona and a power pipe until the next day, Jacqueline told the USA Today.
Jacqueline Reed holds her 15-month-old daughter Kara Reed. Kara was bitten twice by a rattle in Florence, Arizona on May 16, 2025. After a six -day hospital stay, she returned home on May 22, 2025.
Jacqueline works with Kara’s medical team according to the physical therapy plan before the upcoming reconstructive surgery on Kara’s leg.
Jacqueline said she would probably need destruction, removing dead or infected wound tissue and possibly skin grafting, using a plastic healthy skin from another part of her body to help the area heal. She said the family had not yet heard how exactly the wounds would be treated.
Kara Reed, left with his parents Matthew and Jacqueline Reed at Phoenix’s Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Kara was bitten twice by a rattle at his home in Florence, Arizona on May 16.
“The sweet Kara is still not smiling and has a thousand yard for sight right now,” Jacqueline said in her Facebook post on May 23. “Matthew and I really believe that her best chance of recovering while she doesn’t need much medical intervention is at home with her family. She is so loved and so much care.”
Shortly after the admission of Reed Hospital, a Gofundme fund was set up. As of May 24, she raised over $ 45,000.
How common are deaths caused by Rattlesnake bites?
Rucky bites are rarely fatal.
According to the centers to prevent and control diseases between 7,000 to 8,000 people are a little of a poisonous snake (including rattles, copper heads, cotton mud and coral snakes) in the United States every year. Of these cases, about five are fatal.
As for how snake life affects a child compared to an adult adult, recent studies say there are not many differences.
A 2020 study published in the Journal of Medical Toxicology found that patients with adults and pediatric, bitten by poisonous snakes, have similar toxicity toxicity of the system, severity, length of stay and late hematological toxicity – low blood count.
This story has been updated to add more information.
Greta Cross is a national trendy reporter at USA Today. An idea of the story? Send her an email to her gcross@usatoday.comS
This article originally appeared in USA Today: Arizona Toddler returns home after intensive treatment of snake bites