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Great articles! A lot of information to internalize and try to remember. Thank you.
Thank you a very useful summary of potential health problems and treatments.
I would like more info about what the Ranch and Feed stores (and others) might provide.
Supplies available at the ranch and feed stores really vary. The small one a few miles down the road from us has a few bottles of DMSO (research it–we thought about including it in the article), permethrin, and fish antibiotics.
The next closest feed store–much larger and much nicer–doesn’t have fish antibiotics, but does carry DMSO, Bag Balm (healing chapped and cracked skin), lots of bandages and gauze (cheaper than Amazon, but not quite as cheap as ShopMedVet), vet wrap, permethrin, syringes, Hibiclens. Probably lots more. We remember being very perturbed that they had so much there that was so much cheaper than what we had just gotten through Amazon.
And then the one that’s half an hour away and serves the upper class population has next to nothing in it. You’ll just have to check out what’s in your area.
This was an exceptionally well done article. IMHO you deserve to win first place in the monthly contest.
Wow, thank you so much! We really do want to win, but even more than that, we hope that this helps others prepare a little better to face medical challenges when our society collapses. And maybe what could have been a medical challenge will only be a little inconvenience.
Thank you so much for your series. It has been very informative.
Thanks for taking the time to put it together.
You’re welcome! We’re really glad it’s been helpful.
Thank You!
This was a VERY useful article!
It might have included items some of us have little experience of, but it helps us know how much more we need to learn…
Keep up the good work!
Very well written. I have been researching and practicing wilderness medicine for 15 years and this corresponds closely to my experience.
One additional I might recommend is a couple of 3M Skin Staplers. They make suturing much easier and have proven useful on quite a few occasions. Here on the ranch I have stapled two chickens with gaping wounds (rooster spurs), one dog, and one horse. All healed very cleanly. So far, no human use but I am getting my practice in on the animals.
Honey, irrigation syringes, and steri-strips go everywhere I go.
You may have mentioned this in your previous installations but don’t forget Tinidazole for Giardia (I prefer it over Metronidazole for a number of reasons). Here in the redoubt Giardia is very common. One dose will clear it up.