1 Symptoms are due to the effects of excess acetylcholine on nicotinic and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the CNS, at neuromuscular junctions, and in the sympathetic, and parasympathetic nervous systems. 2  Nicotinic and muscarinic receptors have different. 3  Functions. 4  Locations.
The reason snake repellents don t work is because there is nothing intimidating to a snake about the smell of naphthalene or sulfur. Even if there were, snakes do not smell the way people traditionally assume they do. Snakes use smell as a method of information.
Prevention Better Than Cure: 1  Snakes never attack unless they feel threatened. 2  Stay still: if you see a snake passing by stay absolutely still as snakes attack only when they sense danger: it is their instinct. But standing still in their territories maybe taken as a sign of being attacked.