This Publication Is Searchable The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy Section 23. C. exilicauda venom causes some immediate pain and sometimes numbness or tingling over the involved part. Swelling is usually absent.
Children become tense and restless and display abnormal and random head, neck, and eye movements.
In adults, tachycardia, hypertension, increased respirations, weakness, and motor disturbances may predominate. Respiratory difficulties may occur in children and adults, often complicated by excessive salivation. Several species of scorpions popular in the exotic pet trade are similar in appearance to foreign species with dangerously toxic venom. Stings from these pets should be treated as potentially dangerous until signs or lack of signs indicates otherwise. The stings of most North American scorpions require no specific therapy.