Medical

Whole Truth For Hole In Tooth? Meet The ‘Dentist In A Box’ For Soldiers | Fox News

4 November 2011

Meet Dentist in A Box, the dental emergency kit for the soldier in the field. For basic everyday dental emergencies, this Australian company has created a re-sealable plastic kit approximately the size of a CD (6.3 inches by 5.9 inches) that weighs about an ounce and a half.
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Aging acid found in old first aid kits could explode if moved | 9news.com

1 July 2011

The Altvaters have been collecting the memorabilia for 20 years. They did not know that a piece of their collection could cause an explosion: a first aid kit with gauze pads soaked in picric acid.
via Aging acid found in memorabilia could explode if moved | 9news.com.
When picric acid ages it crystalizes and that makes it sensitive to [...]

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Spring Cleaning: What To Do With Expired Medicines

18 May 2011

If you are starting on Spring Cleaning one of the more challenging things to clean out is the medicine cabinet and first aid kit.
Expired medicines are a bit of a pain to deal with and you generally don’t want to use expired medicines. While most just loss potency, making figuring out dosages almost impossible, some [...]

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Beating Germs At Home

12 May 2011

Most families do a search and destroy on germs aka clean their home every week or so. But are you hitting all the places where germs live?
Your average cleaning routine will disinfect the bathroom and kitchen sinks, the toilet and the bathtub. Those are an excellent start but those are not the only places you [...]

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Ships Captain’s Medical Guide

25 April 2011

The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide is intended primarily for use on ships where no doctor is carried and it is necessary for laymen to assess and treat injuries and to diagnose and treat ill health. The Guide can also be recommended for use in other situations where professional medical advice is not readily available, for [...]

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The 3 Kinds of Salt You Need in your Food Storage

8 April 2011

All food storage plans have salt in them. Salt is a vital nutrient, so important that it is one of only 4 things we can taste. The others sweet (indicating a source of calories), bitter (a warning for poison) and sour (an indicator for certain certain vitamins, like vitamin C). Salt is in fact the [...]

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Coughs, Colds and Pandemics

17 January 2011

Every home should have a first aid kit. Most commercial ones are just fine, though not all are designed for dealing with cold and flu. Some are just a collection of bandages, which is good but not always what you need.
So ignoring the antiseptic and bandages part of a first aid kit this will be [...]

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Getting Ready for Flu Season: The Sick Box

15 October 2010

It’s almost cold and flu season, so now is a good time to make a Cold & Flu Box. A Cold & Flu Box is a simple box of medicines and easy foods and some distractions to help you ride out the symptoms of the flu.
The flu is a virus and we don’t have much to [...]

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Where There Is No Doctor 2010 version available now.

14 September 2010

The Hesperian Foundation has released their 2010 version of Where There Is No Doctor a 450 page book filled with advice on diagnosing and treating many different accidents and diseases. This is well worth having. The pdf is a free download, but I recommend the print version.

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U.S. Inaction Lets Look-Alike Tubes Kill Patients – NYTimes.com

25 August 2010

Hospitalized patients often have an array of clear plastic tubing sticking out of their bodies to deliver or extract medicine, nutrition, fluids, gases or blood to veins, arteries, stomachs, skin, lungs or bladders.
via U.S. Inaction Lets Look-Alike Tubes Kill Patients – NYTimes.com.
The medical community has problems, very serious problems, that have already been solved in [...]

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