Posted on 12/20/2012 6:20:03 PM PST by Kartographer
Here is a list of some of the items:
24 U.S. Military Field Style Medic Instrument Kit
Surgical Disposable Sterile Skin Stapler w/Enhanced
Control, 35 Preloaded Staples
Sawyer Personal Water Bottle Filter 1 Liter
Black Diamond Icon Headlamp (Silver)
SAM Medical Splint (Pack of 2)
(Excerpt) Read more at prepforshtf.com ...
Assuming one had such a sympathetic doctor, a supply of cephalexin, suture kits/locals.... What else would you recommend - particularly in the way of antibiotics?
Bump!
“Well, most of us regardless of age are not going to wait around for the bad guys to attack us.”
Where, exactly are you going to go, and with whom, and to what end?
Besides setting up a perimeter initially, and occasional recon a bit further out, I doubt you’re going to accomplish much by wading out into the unknown looking for trouble.
What’s your long-term strategy for winning SHTF, besides merely surviving, and starting slowly again?
You gonna be marching with a band of brothers to go reclaim D.C. ? You gonna be fighting your way to some oil refinery to get the fuel flowing again, or take over some power plant and start restoring the grid?
how does one find a sympathetic doctor
You don’t need a doctor to get antibiotics.
Www.fishmoxflex.com
All of the basics available for discreet shipping right to your door. No prescription needed. And they’re made in exactly the same factories and subject to all the same quality standards as the products intended for human consumption.
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http://www.fishmoxfishflex.com/
All of the products we sell are for fish or birds only and do not require a prescription.
Interesting source. Thanks.
Yes it is was I was going for. I’ve done business with them.
You marry his daughter.
Hell, sorry.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure what the name was.
Thanks for the info. I’ll be adding that to my stash.
No worries, most people don’t know ths stuff about Amazon - I’m just letting people know.
I was wrong about the $1 Million, it was $2.5 Million
Amazon founder donates $2.5 million to same-sex ‘marriage’ campaign
Amazon’s Founder Pledges $2.5 Million in Support of Same-Sex Marriage
Feds should probe Amazon pedophile ‘how-to’ book: Concerned Women
Pedophile Guide on Amazon is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Amazon.com Defends Selling Pedophile’s How-To Handbook
Book Defending Pedophilia For Sale On Amazon (And That’s Not All!)
Articles with links:
Amazon founder donates $2.5 million to same-sex ‘marriage’ campaign
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2912997/posts
Amazon’s Founder Pledges $2.5 Million in Support of Same-Sex Marriage
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2911365/posts
Feds should probe Amazon pedophile ‘how-to’ book: Concerned Women
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2634634/posts
Pedophile Guide on Amazon is Just the Tip of the Iceberg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2625585/posts
Amazon.com Defends Selling Pedophile’s How-To Handbook http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2625260/posts
Book Defending Pedophilia For Sale On Amazon (And That’s Not All!) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2625260/posts
so which ones are recommmended for prepping?
Just go sit in your rocker, gramps, and keep imagining you are the only badass to have ever lived. Your cowardly kind are a well known quantity. You question everyone else but it is your kind that are as much a threat as those that assault us as you try to demotivate others.
A few points, in addition to the online access to meds others have listed above:
I am of the opinion that surviving SHTF is unlikely in isolation. Neighborhoods should work together, and most neighborhoods have at least a few people with a bit of medical training of some sort. Coordinating efforts and resources ahead of time seems prudent to me.
The general person would do best to get a Merck Manual or some such book and study up on such things. Ball park diagnoses of common conditions in an emergency situation is the best we can do, and you can learn a lot with reasonable effort on your own - I did so out at sea on a small ship - an “independent duty station” where I acted without availability of a doctor much of the time. When I went on to medical school years later I was amazed how well I had been able to handle many illnesses with so little training. I’d save such heroics for true emergencies during SHTF, of course, but that’s what we’re talking about here.
There are tons of fancy antibiotics out there, but most have been developed to treat highly/increasingly resistant infections in debilitated patients in hospital settings. When SHTF, things will get rather primitive rather quickly, and the bacteria that will kill you will most likely be the garden varieties that have always been out there, and which are likely reverted back to less resistant strains. Common antibiotics should work fine.
When SHTF, you can forget about treating opportunistic infections in debilitated people with compromised immune systems: Triage - a hard lesson that must be learned and learned well - will be the name of the game. Such people have so little chance of your saving them that resources will need to be saved for those with more reasonable chances of living. “Death panels”? - you bet. And you may be the panel some day. I think harsh, brutal realities are headed our way if this all falls apart. Read up on how it was done in the old days, the attitudes and the specifics.
Biological warfare plagues, if bacterial, will usually respond to Doxycycline.
Forget about IV or IM antibiotics unless you’ve got some way to preserve them and administer them.
I’d get the following meds if I knew as much as or somewhat less than I did back when I was a corpsman. Some are cheap, some not.
Lots of triple antibiotic ointment for small wounds - OTC.
Several large bottles of silver sulfadiazine ointment for long term treatment of serious burns.
The rest are in order of probable usefulness, and somewhat in descending order of cost most likely.
Keflex.
Erythromycin
Bactrim.
Amoxicillin/ Augmentin.
Ampicillin
Doxycycline
Cipro
Metronidazole
Clindamycin
You might want at least a little bit of Azithromycin and Tamiflu around, but bulk is harder to get and they are rather pricey last I checked.
Some non-steroidal antibiotic eye ointments are also worth stockpiling.
Regarding “expiration dates” on meds - it’s a long story why, but the bottom line is that they won’t become “dangerous” by degrading into some sort of poison over time, and most will still be effective long, long after they “expire”.
Last point: Prevention of wounds, proper wound care, and prevention of illnesses through common sense measures is the real key. You simply don’t want to be using antibiotics in the first place if you can help it at all, especially if you don’t have the diagnostic ability to accurately diagnose the infections you’re treating. Common sense stuff.
Good luck.
“Just go sit in your rocker, gramps, and keep imagining you are the only badass to have ever lived. Your cowardly kind are a well known quantity. You question everyone else but it is your kind that are as much a threat as those that assault us as you try to demotivate others.”
LOL! What a piece of work. Good luck with all that.
How to Stockpile Antibiotics for Long Term Survival
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2947506/posts
Antibiotics And Their Use in Collapse Medicine(tm), Part 1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2837144/posts
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