First Aid/Medical

This is a guest post by W. D. Sultemeier When MD asked for readers’ help I responded with a suggestion for an article about and for the prepper who finds himself in a handicapped situation. I really meant the suggestion for MD to take the ball and run with it but he turned the table [...]

Wound Care Guest post by Ishabaka In my opinion, our medical system will be one of the first to collapse during a major catastrophe. We have a shortage of primary care doctors in the U.S., a shortage of emergency rooms, a shortage of nurses, and most hospitals have gone to a “just in time” ordering system, [...]

Please; try to understand, if I’m not in top form today. For the past three days I’ve had the most aggravating toothache that keeps getting worse. I scheduled an appointment with the dentist for later this afternoon. I will admit being afraid of the dentist, the thought of him grinding, filling, pulling and let’s not [...]

by EDI received Diabetes 911 by Larry A. Fox M.D and Sandra L. Weber M.D in the mail. I found it very instructive, especially Chapter 8, “Severe Weather and Natural Disasters”. The chapter builds from previous chapters as the authors put together a “Disaster Preparedness Kit” and “Tips for Evacuation”. They recommend pretty much a [...]

MEDICAL SERIES NUMBER FOUR By Ed In Part One , amino acids were discussed as they all must contribute at once to build human protein. The importance of high quality protein versus low quality protein in a diet was emphasized. Paying close attention to the biological value (BV) of a foods is a start in [...]

MEDICAL SERIES NUMBER THREE BY ED I was going to discuss nutrition as it relates to survival situations. However, the subject is complex and will probably be broken down in 2 or 3 parts. As you know perhaps, the rule of three’s state: a human’s parameters for life are-3 minutes without air; 3 hours without [...]

By Flea – Be A Survivor There is a growing trend in America where everything from soaps to slippers is “antibacterial”; there has been a growing debate that this trend is doing more harm than good. How is this possible you may ask? Let’s start with a story; once upon a time a doctor named [...]

I consider myself lucky that I have no major health problems and no recurring need of prescription medications, but a lot of people aren’t so fortunate. They need certain medications, everyday or face harmful health effects or even death. Having a supply of prescription medications on hand post collapse could mean the difference between survival [...]

Our health system is set up to care for only a small number of patients at any given time. During an emergency most facilities are quickly over ran and unable to deal with the influx of wounded received. The Oklahoma City Bombing, LA Riots and a number of recent natural disasters have demonstrated this fact [...]