Category Archives: Medical archives

Dangers of pill splitting?

Craig asks:  A lot of data sheets I have seen for medicines in tablet form say something along the lines of “Do not halve the tablet. Dose equivalence when the tablet is divided has not been established.” How accurate is … Continue reading

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Week 10 – Question of the Week: What steps have you taken to establish structured medical care?

Week 10:  2011-05-12 Today I’m asking all our readers to respond to this question: What steps have you taken to establish structured medical care for an end-of-life-as-we-know-it scenario?  Will you simply be on your own amidst the chaos, or have you networked … Continue reading

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Cholera – Lessons from Haiti

Haiti had not experienced a cholera epidemic in over a century. The January 2010 earthquake changed that. In the wake of the destruction and misery, cholera paid a visit.  By October 2010 an epidemic had been identified.  By six weeks later 91,770 cases … Continue reading

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Kidney stones and the end of the world

  A kidney stone:  don’t tell me it’s not the end of the world.  Sure, I’m better today, but yesterday I was dying.  At least it felt like it.  I hadn’t had pain like that since my son was born 17 … Continue reading

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Medical-prepper links

One of our contributing professionals asked about placing my research on a hotmail sky drive.  Perhaps in the future I’ll find time to add this feature, but in the meantime he has offered to share his own extensive prepper research … Continue reading

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Week 9 – Question of the Week: How far are you prepared to stray from your area of expertise?

Week 9: 2011-05-05 Today I’m asking our professionals to comment on the following question: At TEOTWAWKI, how far are you prepared to stray from your area of expertise? Would a veterinarian be willing to perform an appendectomy?  As an EMT … Continue reading

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Should you worry about your blood pressure in 2012?

D. Brown asks:  From my study and research it looks like blood pressure can be treated with herbs and diet.  Am I correct in this understanding? Generally speaking, high blood pressure falls into two categories: the kind that may kill … Continue reading

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Sex and TEOTWAWKI

What do cockroaches and chlamydia have in common? Both are likely to survive the end of the world as we know it. So will syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, HIV, and human papilloma virus – all our old friends.  For a free, … Continue reading

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Are you prepared to prevent 99% of infections?

Image via Wikipedia Infections in human beings are caused by a frightening array of microorganisms. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeast, worms, amoeba, parasites, and prions invade the human body, spreading fear and misery throughout the world.   In a very real sense, … Continue reading

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New Deadly Virus . . . just when you think we’ve seen them all

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) – quite a mouthful. This week’s Journal of the American Medical Association included a few paragraphs on this newly identified infection, caused by a tick-borne Phlebovirus of the Bunyaviridae family.    Other tick-borne illnesses … Continue reading

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