SA toddler praised for alerting mother after being bitten by a deadly eastern brown snake at Port Wakefield home

Ezra Porter is still learning how to talk.

But the two-year-old is earning the praise of everyone around him, after alerting his mother he was bitten by a deadly brown snake in the backyard of his Port Wakefield home.

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Brave SA toddler alerts mum to snakebite.

Ezra was playing in the backyard in the town last month, about 100km north of Adelaide, when he felt a sharp pain in his foot.

The cherubic tot immediately ran inside to tell his mother the deadly reptile had bitten him.

On Monday, speaking to 7NEWS Adelaide, Ezra’s mother, Miranda Porter, relived the terrifying moment.

“I saw the bite mark, and it was extremely scary to be honest ... I asked ‘where did it get you?’ I cried, I was shaking,” Porter said.

Ezra’s quick-thinking parents went straight to the backyard, where they saw the eastern brown snake slither away out of sight.

They immediately called triple-0 and the youngster was airlifted to Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

Porter said she thought young Ezra might die from the bite.

“To have that thought of ‘my son is going to die’ ... We’re just about to lose our little man. There’s no words to describe that,” she said.

Luckily, it was a ‘dry bite’ which meant no venom had been injected.

Eastern brown snakes have some of the most lethal venom in the world, with the poison able to cause death in less than an hour.

Doctors praised Ezra for identifying the reptile following the bite, actions which could have saved his life.

“The fact he could identify what a snake was is fantastic,” Dr Michela Mitchell, from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Toxicology Department, told 7NEWS Adelaide.

“That he could get that message across to mum straight away.”

Experts say children should be taught about venomous creatures by the time they turn three years old.

“We still have our little man. To have him here is a blessing” Miranda said.