A California mother sucked rattlesnake venom from the leg of her four-year-old son. The mother was nine-month pregnant and her act could have proved dangerous for her and her unborn baby.

The Caramazza family in Folsom, California, was put for a walk behind their home as a weekly routine, but the path is also now increasingly being used by rattlesnakes. Vinny had a painful encounter with a rattlesnake along Humbug Creek Trail.

Vinny's mother, Jaclyn, was at a distance of 10 feet from Vinny and a neighborhood friend when she noticed that something lunged at his leg. She saw a little mark on his leg and Vinny said that he bit him there. The bite was from a rattlesnake and someone nearby also clicked a picture of the rattlesnake just minutes after it bit Vinny.

"My first reaction after seeing something on TV back in the day is to suck the venom out and not thinking about being pregnant and what that would do to me", she said.

Jaclyn jumped into action and sucked the venom out of her son's ankle three times. She later realized that the technique was full of danger and she and her unborn children could have faced huge troubles because of being exposed to the snake's venom. But thank God, things panned out well and she is fortunately doing fine.

Vinny was given antibiotics treatment at the hospital along with anti-venom. He is doing well now. Because of drought in California, ditches are drying up, leading more snakes to make their way near sprinklers and drip-irrigation systems to get access to water.