Re: Re: Katrina like disaster and YOU are the health care provider

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Yep I keep thyme tincture on hand too.

SuziPS Great thread.

prayerfulmantis <prayerfulmantis@...> wrote:

I like the fishing vest and headlamp ideas, Kit. My EMT bag isn't something that is comfortable to carry around while you're being active and holding a minimaglight in one's teeth while both hands are full trying to get something done in the dark sucks. A first aid type cross sewn on the back along with some reflector tape would amp up one's visibility. A hiker friend uses grapefruit seed extract to purify water when she's on the trail. Regular chlorine bleach will kill off germs in water too but I don't remember the drops/gallon. It's a cheap way to go for at home emergency water purification. Doesn't do anything for chemical contamination (one could argue successfully that it adds that to the water) but does keep one from getting the trots. So does boiling if you have fuel.Essential oils pack a lot of bang for the size. I am in

love with thyme oil as a germicide/antiseptic now. Might be just the thing to spray on one's hands now and then (diluted of course) if one was in a nasty area. Tea tree oil is a given for that too.Some favorite Wilderness First Responder tricks: Cut a butterfly bandage out of a piece of adhesive tape with 2 snips. Fold tape in half and snip two corners off at the center fold. When unfolded you have a narrowed-in-the-middle piece of tape that does wonders to hold a wound shut (think stitches). For wound irrigation fill a ziplock bag with your irrigation medium, snip a small corner of the bag, then squeeze a stream of the water out with pressure. This is pretty important for cleaning nasty wounds. A sterile source of fluid for irrigation is your own urine if you don't have hepatitis or a bladder infection. Otherwise boil water, add providine, or similiarly to sterilize the irrigation solution. DON'T FORGET GLOVES IN YOUR

KIT.Hope all of you down that way do okay.Chris

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Funny isn't it that athlete's foot is one of the easiest things to fix? When we worked 18 hours or more a day in rubber boots, athlete's foot had the perfect environment to grow. W just dipped our feet about once a week in ACV and pulled socks on without drying it off. Even a bad case could be clearid up with one dip. It took a couple of days for the itching to stop, but it was history.

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Subject: Re: Re: Katrina like disaster and YOU are the health care provider

When I was in prison, it was a common practice. Athlete's Foot was (and probably still is) an epidemic in institutions like that. It sure helped!

kitcurtin <kitcurtin@...> wrote:

Couldn't be an easier target!!! Well, for half of us anyway! lol, Kit

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Poor diet is an understatement! I was fortunate to have a friend that worked (we had to work to be eligible for early release) as a clerk in the Lt's office. He smuggled out a lot of copies of memo's and stuff. One was about how the 3000+ calorie a day diet was implimented to keep the inmates lazy and thus more managable.

We did have access to medical treatment, if you want to call it that. It was terrifying to say the least. These men were all "doctors" that had either lost their licenses due to malpractice, or from other countries where standards were less than here. So we did our best not to have to go. There were some of us that had friends that worked in the kitchen. We would get garlic smuggled out to us, dice it up, and megadose on it, taking it like pills with water, every day.

Then there were the "unspecified" injections. We would be lined up and given shots, with no consent necessary. If we turned it down, we went to solitary confinement. I remember one time, we had to get up in the middle of the night and get injections. They said it was for TB tests. I've had TB tests, where you get the little bubble of injection under the skin. This was deep in the muscle. I looked at a bottle that they were drawing the stuff out of, and I couldn't really read it, but it sure wasn't related to anything having to do with TB. Many of us got very sick for weeks afterward.

This sort of thing happened quite a lot.

Ah, well. Many would say/have said that we were only inmates, so we deserved whatever they did. And they did a lot. I've even seen inmates murdered by guards. But, hey, we were only inmates, right?

Peace, love, laughter

kitcurtin <kitcurtin@...> wrote:

Hey , I guess I wouldn't have thought of folk medicine there....but probablymore logical than one would guess. Was there anything thing elsedone to counteract what I'm also guessing was a poor diet? Kit__________________________________________________