Is an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) something that preppers need to think about? Yes. AED’s are located in many (most) public places, and knowing how to use one may save a loved one’s life. AED Using an AED (automatic external… Continue Reading
Say Yes To Resistance Bands – There’s an important fact about times of crises that gets often overlooked: Life keeps happening. And I don’t just mean “some people survive”. I mean that the things that complicate normal life can also… Continue Reading
FSA Flexible Spending Accounts & Prepping Just a reminder, if you have a health flexible spending account (FSA) with money left in it, you only have a few weeks to spend it… for those of us who actually have a… Continue Reading
Most emergencies — in fact, none of them so far — are a world-ending apocalypse. Many emergencies come in one-family size, in fact. When the situation is medical, one of the surprisingly hard things can be deciding if it *is*… Continue Reading
Pandemics get the headlines. Fair enough; it’s the pandemics often kill millions, potentially billions. But in a sense, pandemic, epidemic, and endemic diseases are equally bad. Why? As they say about all wars being the same size: Death comes one… Continue Reading
In one sense, pandemic responses are easy to figure out: Don’t come in contact with infected people. In another sense, it can be very difficult. Critical information is hard to come by: How bad is it? What kinds of contacts… Continue Reading
Preppers naturally want to have access to medicines that really work, whether the pharmacy is open or not. Capsaicin topical preparations (such as creams) are available from pharmacies now for pain relief. A prepper can produce a capsaicin preparation with… Continue Reading
Just in time for fall deer hunting season, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta has issued a report that deer infected with tuberculosis can transmit that disease to humans. Knowing how to avoid infection is important any time you… Continue Reading
Call them bug-out bags or get-home bags or whatever else you want; they’re important. These bags are stashes of preps that you can pick up and take off on a moment’s notice with whether you’re home or on the road.… Continue Reading
Antibiotic Resistance: Go Big Or Go Home After the development of antibiotics, experts in infectious medicine who’d seen the fatalities in their field drop by more than 90% trumpeted an end to their entire specialty; and many medical schools closed… Continue Reading
Eyeglasses are a prep that lots of people ignore, and for some it’s not a big deal… if you don’t wear them, then obviously for everyday activities you don’t need them, fair enough. BUT… if you DO wear them, at… Continue Reading
An asthma attack feels a lot like you’re trying to suck your air into your lungs through one of those tiny little straws they give you to stir coffee with. You feel like you’re suffocating, and you can’t stop coughing.… Continue Reading
Is there anything less fun than kidney stones? Not a whole lot … “The most painful thing I’ve ever experienced” is a phrase that comes up a lot when people talk about their experiences with one. I bet I can… Continue Reading
Something bad’s gone down. Your community is getting by, because Hey, you were prepared and knew how to do some things. But now people are getting sick. There’s no word from the outside on what it might be; so you’ll… Continue Reading
Prepping for food allergies and sensitivities If you’re not inclined to be a label reader you might not have noticed … but many prepper foods are pretty big on the ‘processed’ scale. The problem is that means there are… Continue Reading