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To: Pollster1

While we’re on the subject, don’t EVEN forget about peroxide, bandages, quinine pills, iodine pills, and a consideration for any maintenance meds you may be jacked up on.

Much of the need for those meds may go away if you are FORCED onto a more healthy diet.

But think it through, if you are a type 1 diabetic, and you don’t have a supply of insulin, you are pretty royally effed and your days are numbered.

A good med supply kit, sutchers (sp?) sutcher needles, syringes, (yea, a box of diabetic syringes are really useful when you need to administer some emergency antibiotic.)

I could go on and on. Each person’s needs are different. But don’t wait till you are down to your last blood pressure pill to realize that “sh!t, what was I thinking?”


20 posted on 08/12/2012 4:40:06 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimze, my handle is a Hate Crime. Hope they don't like it.)
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To: ConradofMontferrat
While we’re on the subject, don’t EVEN forget about peroxide, bandages, quinine pills, iodine pills, and a consideration for any maintenance meds you may be jacked up on. A good med supply kit, sutchers (sp?) sutcher needles, syringes, (yea, a box of diabetic syringes are really useful when you need to administer some emergency antibiotic.)

I agree on peroxide, plue rubbing alcohol - both are cheap. I have thread and needles, both new in sealed packages, but my primary suture option is superglue. I recommend buying packs of 3-5 disposable tubes twice a year, and using them for normal household use after a year. That way you always have 2-3 packs, and you know the shelf life for the brands you buy. Superglue is recommended for wound closure and a whole lot easier on everyone than sutures. I have a lot of sterile gauze pads, bandages, and similar. I put $100 into fish antibiotics (pharmacy grade, legal, and cheaper than prescription), so I'm covered there too, probably for a LONG time even in a crisis. Remarkably, no one in my family is on any regular medications, so we're not the model for everyone.

21 posted on 08/12/2012 4:53:11 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: ConradofMontferrat

A cheap supply of sterile bandages can be had by purchasing sanitary napkins for women. A brand name is Kotex, but many stores carry a house brand of the product. The pads and liners (unscented) are individually wrapped and handy as hell for treating wounds.


29 posted on 08/12/2012 9:02:53 PM PDT by rw4site (Little men want Big Government!)
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