Two-year-old Ezra was bitten by an eastern brown snake while playing in his backyard. What the toddler did next saved his life

Snake is one of the few words two-year-old Ezra Porter knows, which came in handy when one of the deadly reptiles bit the little boy while playing outside.

The boy has earned praise from his family and doctors for alerting his mother after an eastern brown snake, one of the most venomous in the world, bit him on the foot at his Port Wakefield home last month.

Ezra immediately ran inside to tell his mother after he was attacked at his game in the backyard of his home, 100 kilometers north of Adelaide.

Miranda Porter ran out just in time to see the snake before it walked away.

“I saw the bite mark and to be honest it scared me a lot… I asked him, ‘Where did he take you?’ I cried and I was shaking,” Ms Porter said. 7News.

Porter said she was “terrified” that the situation could have turned deadly and that it was an “absolute blessing” that her little boy was unharmed.

‘Having that thought… We are about to lose our little man. There are no words to describe that,’ he said.

She called triple zero and Ezra was airlifted to Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

Once at the hospital, doctors determined that, fortunately, the injury had been a “dry bite,” a term used when venom has not been injected into the wound.

If the eastern brown snake had injected its venom, Ezra’s quick thinking could have saved his life, as the toxin can cause death in less than an hour.

Dr Michela Mitchell, from the Department of Toxicology at Women and Children’s Hospital, said it was remarkable that Ezra was able to recognize the danger and tell his mother what had happened.

“The fact that I was able to identify what a snake was is fantastic,” he said.

Experts recommend that children be taught about snake safety before they turn three years old and start playing outside.