“…The symptoms usually begin with a burning pain on the contact area, followed by erythema, edema, heat and blisters [13,15] and systemic symptoms (headache, fever, nausea, emesis and malaise) [10,13] . Bleeding diathesis may occur a few hours after the accident, which consists of gengivorrhagia, ecchymosis and hematomas of variable intensity, bleeding from many sites (nose, gums, gut, genitourinary tract, and even from recent wounds), epistaxis, hematemesis or hematuria [10,13,15] . Hemolysis has been described in only two cases out of all envenomed patients in southern Brazil [16,21] .…”