Inject anti-venom into an venomous creatures?

Question

i always wonder what it'd happen if you inject anti-venom into the specific venomous creatures. for instant, if you inject anti-venom that is specifically for cobra's venom into a cobra, would the cobra become venomless or die?

Answer 1

However, if you take away all of your stomach acid you would eventually die because you would not be able to break the nutrients out of food.

Additionally, there isn't much connection between stomach acid and venom.

The first answer does have one good point though, the venomous animal does not poison themselves.

When someone if hunting rattle snakes to eat them the first thing that they do is cut the heads off so the animal doesn't bite himself and contaminate the meat. That tells me that their meat does not resist (?) poison or it would not only be inedible but it wouldn't matter if it bite itself.

So then it would matter if the anti-venom were injected into the body of the animal or into the source of the venom (the sack).

If it were injected in to the body of the animal without the animal having bitten itself I believe it would kill the animal just as it would kill a human if they were given the anti-venom without needing it or given too much. And I believe that I have heard that that will kill you and that is why people are always so strongly cautioned against drinking and injecting the poison as a "preventative."

If it were injected into the sacks it would matter if the anti-venom neutralized the chemicals making up the venom or it if changed the properties of the venom. If it neutralized it probably wouldn't matter and would be like expelling saliva. Though the animal would probably die of starvation in short order because it wouldn't know that it didn't have venom and that it needed to express the neutralized anti-venom in order to make more.

If it changed the chemical properties then it would probably kill the animal because animals' bodies are finely tuned to do what they are supposed to do and that significantly change its balances.

So to sum up the basic answer would depend on how that particular anti-venom worked and I know that different anti-venoms work differently based on whether it is a neurotoxin or a muscle degenerator and where it was injected into the animal.

Answer 2

no, venomous creatures have sacks in which their poison lies. Also if u did inject it into the poison sacks it wont kill it because the anti venom blocks the venom from entering receptors in the body,so it wont debilitate the animal at all or affect the ambient venom.

Answer 3

The cobra does not poison itself, the venom is stored in sacks conected to the fangs. Just like you aren't killed by your own stomach acid. So injecting antivenom will not do anything.