A Cholera cot.
That sorta says it all.
Posted on 09/06/2005 11:03:17 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Hoo boy, folks waded in this commode water for days. If water level was high enough to get body orifices into it (even the waste orifices) this would spread the disease.
Watching CNN now and can't imagine taking a mouthful of that stuff. Yuck.
He says assuming she's had all her kid vaccines, she should get Hepatitis A and B, and Typhoid if she can get it, although right now it isn't required.
He's packing a lot of Purell and water purification tabs.
Hope that helps.
The two problems in NO was the flooding, which was more or less a bacteria and virii soup and the crowded unsanitary conditions in the SD, convention center, etc. Even the flooded areas in Alabama wouldn't be as unsafe as NO I would think.
i mean to catch it... through the hiney or that other thing that varies between male and female. exposed mucous membranes.
You MUST boil drinking water in a situation like this unless it comes from a bottle. Cholera is an exquisitely unpleasant disease that is perfectly treatable wherever there is a medical infrastructure left. Where there isn't it can kill a lot of people.
Surprisingly, Gatorade lists the RDA's of Sodium and Potassium. The RDA for Sodium turns out to be the equivalent of about 2.5 gpd (grams per day), while Potassium is higher, at about 3 gpd.
Dietary studies have shown that most adult Americans are deficient in Potassium. I remedy that by using salt substitute, which is Potassium Chloride instead of regular table salt.
If Norwalk is ANYTHING like that, it's gonna be a nightmare.
A Cholera cot.
That sorta says it all.
When a thousand or so evacuees arrived at Lubbock, TX, they were greeted by clean folks wearing rubber gloves. I actually saw someone here bypass the logic and dwell on the implication 'that was rude.'
[shaking head]
flood, famine, fire and pestilence :-(
Friend of mine just got actived (NG) and headed to the Astrodome Thursday. His only comment was 'what took them so long'?
Yeah...I didn't want to be too descriptive, but the "rice-water stool" that is a characteristic of the disease is actually little bits of your epithelial tissue being shed when you haven't anything left in you to, er, excrete...
Yep, aka Pedialyte. Once rehydration is taking and the patient is ready for solid foods, switch to the BART diet (pick one and go):
b - banana
a - applesauce
r - rice (plain)
t - toast (plain)
to stop mild diarrhea.
I guess the diet has been made politically correct. It used to be called the "BRAT" diet.
eh, rice over applesauce doesn't make you un-PC. :)
I mean PC.
I told my aunt about that once. She said what, you eat bratwurst? I laughed my fool head off.
It's called vibrio vulnificus -- see this link:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-disease6sep06,1,2978204.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
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