How to keep snakes out of your home Guide & Caution

Snakes do not like the hot temperature of harmattan any more than most of us do. In fact, on particularly hot days, snakes have to scramble for refuge in cooler places or they will overheat and die.
Therefore, you might run into snakes as they move back and forth from sunny places to shade.
Snakes come to your home for the cover, moisture, darkness, and food it provides. To drive them away, you have to take all these things away from them. Take as many steps to deprive snakes of cover in your home as possible.
1. Cut the grass short, clear bushes around your house. Snakes hate feeling exposed and avoid open, highly-visible areas.
2. Inspect your home, paying special attention to the gaps under the door. Seal cracks in the foundation of your house or wall and patch the holes.
3. Move your wood piles, these are great spots for snakes as they hate being exposed.
4. Avoid opening your front doors, leaving your windows open for too long (some of these snakes can reach high heights and they are very quiet, you would not see or hear them enter your house.
5. Before sitting under that tree that has that cooling shades, check if there are no snakes lurking around the branches, they love the cool shades too.
6. Check your bed, under your sheets and surrounding before going to bed.
7. Avoid chilling outside the house with mattresses, mats, and wrappers in the evening.
8. Get a snake repellent.
1. Give analgesic for local pain which may be severe, and might be helpful for calming effects.
2. The site of the bite should be wiped but not incised, because incisions can aggravate bleeding.
3. Remove anything tight from around the bitten part of the body.
4. Avoid traditional first aid methods, herbal medicines and other unproven or unsafe forms of first aid.
5. Transport the person bitten to a health facility as soon as possible.
6. Vomiting may occur, so place the person on their left side in the recovery position.
7. Closely monitor airway and breathing and be ready to resuscitate if necessary.
8. If the snake has been killed, it should be taken along to the hospital, in order to identify if it is poisonous or not and what kind of anti-poison is most appropriate.
9. During transit, the body generally and the bitten limb, in particular, should be moved as little as possible, to minimise the spread of venom.