What's in your medical home kit to survive COVID-19?

March 26, 2020 | Scarpetta

[Scarpetta]

If the hospitals are unable to handle the patient load, and you are coming down with symptoms that may suggest you have the coronavirus, what have you stocked to self-care at home? I'm looking for essentials items that I haven't considered.

[Scarpetta]

Emergen-C; Mucinex; Room humidifier; Personal humidifier; Cold Eeze (zinc); Colloidal silver; UV light (to sanitize PPE equipment); Tonic water (quinine); Thermometer; Creomulsion Adult Cough Medicine; Heating pad and ice packs;

[SgtHooper]

Whiskey!

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Aquarium cleaner?

[CodeToad]

Scotch & Cigars!

[Viking2002]

1: Beer.

2: See #1.

[xp38]

Cheetos....Orange snack bad!

[mylife]

bombay gin

[Scarpetta]

Alas! PA has shut down all liquor stores in my surrounding counties. I can only lay my hands on wine and beer.

[Karma_Sherab]

Whatever we had before all this BS started

[mylife]

mixed with squirt or grapefruit juice.

[tet68]

There were various cold and flu medications at
Wally World but there were NO Cold Eze. Sold out.
It is what I have found most effective on a personal
basis.

[Scarpetta]

I gave up smoking 3 years ago but if I knew death was imminent I would go out and buy a 10 pack carton today!

[Sirius Lee]

Mt. Bike. Running shoes. C, D, K, Turmeric.

[Robert DeLong]

Colloidal silver

Worthless.

From the Mayo Clinic:

Colloidal silver isn't considered safe or effective for any of the health claims manufacturers make. Silver has no known purpose in the body. Nor is it an essential mineral, as some sellers of silver products claim.

[CodeToad]

Well, we’re all supposed to be dead and dying right now, so go for it!

[AF_Blue]

Vodka and Bourbon. Which one I use to self-medicate will depend on which strain of the virus I’m infected with, the Russian strain or the Kentucky strain.

[M Kehoe]

Everclear.

And what you said, accept anti diarrhea pills.

You will probably need them if the shtf.

5.56mm

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[RummyChick]

check out quercetin to act as the Zinc transporter but then you need something to aid the quercetin.

I think some people are using melatonin but havent looked into why.

[Scarpetta]

I have a couple of boxes of lozenges that work great and some out of date tablets. I never throw out expired medicine because it still can be effective.