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Hey Preppers, In the dead of winter, we’re able to stay inside and turn up the heat to stay comfortable, thanks to the availability of power.  In a power-down situation, however, it will certainly be a challenge to stay warm during the winter months in most areas.  If we aren’t careful, we’ll find ourselves at risk for environmental medical [...]

  Hey Preppers, Join us tonight for our long awaited interview with our friend Tim French, founder of Americans Networking To Survive.  A.N.T.S is a survival network of individual preppers called (ants) working together to provide other members basic supplies during disasters. This is done by relaying supply pods to any member that needs them. [...]

Hey Preppers, Asthma is a chronic condition that affects your ability to breathe. It affects the airways, which are the tubes that transport air to your lungs. When people with asthma are exposed to a substance that they are allergic to (an “allergen”), these airways become inflamed. As the airways become swollen, the diameter of [...]

Hey Prepper  Nation,  Even with today’s modern medical technology, most of us can’t avoid the occasional  respiratory infection.  Without strict adherence to sanitary protocol, it would be very easy in a collapse situation for your entire community to come down with colds, sinusitis, influenza or even pneumonia.  Most respiratory infections are spread by viral particles, [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, We  Preppers have great foresight,  because we can see what dangers lurk on our horizon, and it takes pretty good vision to see that.   But a lot of us are nearsighted too, and are chained to our eyeglasses or contact lenses even just to watch television or see what the clock on [...]

Hey Preppers, Most women, at some time of their lives, have experienced a urinary tract infection.  This type of infection usually affects the bladder and urethra, the tube that drains the bladder.  Although men can also get bladder infections (called “cystitis”), their urethra is much longer and bacteria are much less likely to reach the [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, If you’ve been reading the news, you know that the U.S. is not the only country that is having financial problems. I was in Europe a couple of years ago and I can tell you that the infrastructure and general status of the population is on a downward spiral. Everyone throughout the [...]

Hey Preppers, Our good friend John Wesley Smith of Destiny Survival Radio will have us as guests on his show “Destiny Survival Radio” on the Preparedness Radio Network at blogtalkradio.com at 2 pm EST today.  We’re all about education, and we thank John for the opportunity to come on the show and talk about our [...]

Hey Preppers,   Anyone that is interested in preserving the health of their loved ones in a collapse will have to learn what antibiotics will work in a particular situation.  It’s not enough to have a supply of the medication; you have to know how and when to use it.   Even more importantly, it’s important [...]

Hey Preppers, Anyone that is interested in preserving the health of their loved ones in a collapse will have to learn what antibiotics will work in a particular situation. I have found, thanks to comments on the medicine sub-forum that we moderate at survivalcache.com, that two additional antibiotics are available in aquatic equivalents.  As such, [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, One of the most common questions that I am asked from prospective survival medics is “What antibiotics should I stockpile and how do I use them?” There isn’t a 60 second answer to this. Actually, there isn’t a 60 MINUTE answer to this, but anyone that is interested in preserving the health [...]

Hey Preppers, If you wind up spending a lot of time in the woods, you may eventually come up against a wildfire.  Also, once electricity is down and you have to cook food with wood fires or propane stoves, there will be a higher chance of a fire in your retreat. Other than burns, you [...]

Hey Preppers, If you read my blog, you have probably decided to be the person that will take responsibility for the medical well-being of your loved ones in a collapse.  As a card-carrying member of the Prepper Medical Corps, you have chosen to pick up the flag and work towards being an effective caregiver in [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, After gathering food and building a shelter, many people in the preparedness community consider personal and home defense to be the next priority in the event of a societal collapse.  Certainly, defending oneself is important, but have you thought about defending your health?  In a situation where power might be down and [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, Excuse me, sir, may I ask you a question?  Are you normal?  Seems like a simple question, doesn’t it?  There aren’t too many people who think they’re abnormal, are there?   Okay, then, let’s talk about “normal” people.  Normal has several definitions, but we’ll focus on two:  1) “Standard, average or conforming to [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, If we find ourselves one day in a situation where we have to “get out of Dodge”, we will exposing ourselves to insect stings, poison oak and ivy, and strange food items that we aren’t accustomed to.  When we develop an allergic reaction, it might be mild or it might be severe.  [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, The thyroid gland is positioned just in front of the Adam’s Apple and produces hormones that help regulate your metabolism.  The thyroid produces substances that regulate growth, energy and the body’s utilization of other hormones and vitamins.  Thyroid disease usually involves the production of either too little or too much of these [...]

Hey Preppers, Your medical supplies should vary depending on how long you anticipate being the sole medical resource for your family or survival group.  If you expect to be power-down for a few days or a few weeks, you probably won’t need a lot of dental equipment.  If there is a true collapse situation, however, [...]

Hey Preppers, As a physician,I get a lot of questions about expiration dates on medications, and whether medications should be thrown out once they hit that date.  In the preparedness community, most of us accumulate medicines for use in an uncertain future.  Part of that uncertainty is not knowing when or if our society will [...]

Hey Preppers, As a physician, I get a lot of questions about expiration dates on medications and whether medications should be thrown out once they hit that date.  Those of us in the preparedness community accumulate medicines for use in an uncertain future.  Part of the uncertainty is if and when a collapse situation will [...]

Hey Preppers, Last week, the Census Bureau released new figures showing that nearly one in six Americans lives in poverty – a record 46.2 million people. The poverty rate, pegged at 15.1 percent, is the highest of any major industrialized nation, and many experts believe it could get worse before it abates.  If you’re a [...]

Hey Preppers, Head injuries can be soft tissue injuries (brain, scalp, blood vessels) or bony injuries (skull, facial bones).  Damage can be caused by direct impact, such as a laceration in the scalp or a fracture of the skull (also called the “cranium”).  It can also be caused by the rebound of the brain against [...]

Hey Preppers, The 10 year anniversary of 9/11 is here, and every Prepper should observe a moment of silence in honor of those police, firefighters, EMTs and plain ol’ regular folk who died that day. The events of 9/11 shaped history and continue to affect both us and the rest of the world.  What Prepper [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, We’ve certainly had our share of acts of God lately, what with hurricanes, earthquakes, and now, wildfires.  Wildfires, over 170 separate ones, have destroyed nearly 1,400 homes in Central Texas where 1200 firefighters from several states have been battling to get things under control.  As of this morning, there have been at [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, In a collapse situation, we will be required to perform many outdoors activities we are not used to. We’ll be chopping wood, making fires, and doing various chores that have the potential for injury. Simple injuries like cuts and minor burns will be more common, and so will complications when those wounds [...]

Hey Prepper Nation, Most medical guides are intended to aid you in managing emergency situations in austere and remote locations.  Certainly, modern medical care on an ocean voyage or wilderness hike is not readily available.  Even trips to populated areas of underdeveloped countries may fit this category as well.  There are medical strategies that are [...]

Hey Preppers, At the time of this writing, we are watching a large hurricane slowly making its way in the Caribbean over to the U.S. mainland.  It’s been 3 years since the last big storm hit land (Hurricane Ike,Texas, 2008), so many of us are completely unprepared for the severe rain, winds, flooding, and general [...]

Hey Preppers, Who doesn’t think that natural and holistic methods of growing food are best?  Nurse Amy and I sure do, but not everything that’s “organic” is without problems.  There are a lot of natural things that aren’t that great for us; snakebites come to mind. Still, the organic movement is truly a revolution for [...]

Hey Preppers, Tune in tonight at 9pm EST/8pm CST when Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy welcome Chance Sanders of Dave Canterbury’s Pathfinder School to the Doom and Bloom(tm) Show.  Chance is a former marine who’s an expert at teaching wilderness skills and also teaches about personal and home security.  Dr. Bones will also talk about [...]

Hey Preppers, As an old “country” doctor (don’t mind that creaking noise, it’s just the rocking chair or maybe my joints), I have been saddened by the turn that traditional medicine has taken in the recent past.  It seems that most young doctors today are becoming employees of large medical corporations.  Instead of hanging up [...]