Category Archives: Alton’s Antibiotics and Infectious Disease

Survival Medicine Podcast: Antibiotics, Thyroid Questions, OB/Newborn Supplies

In this special episode of the Survival Medicine Podcast, Dr. Joe Alton and Nurse Practitioner[Read More]

Video: Which Antibiotics For Your Storage?

In a SHTF setting, bacterial diseases might run rampant among the members of a survival[Read More]

Antibiotics For The Survival Medicine Cabinet

One of the questions I get from readers most frequently is guidance regarding which antibiotics[Read More]

This Year’s Influenza

Infectious disease is a serious medical issue in good times or bad, and the family[Read More]

Antiseptics, Pt. 2: Natural Options

In part 1 of this article, we reported on the tens of millions of emergency[Read More]

Giardia

Recently, we discussed the topic of infection with parasitic worms. While some of these can[Read More]

Worms

In developed countries, some disease-causing organisms such as parasites are more of historical interest than[Read More]

Video: Wound Treatment And Infection Control

In this companion video to a recent article, Dr. Joe Alton discusses the importance of[Read More]

Sinusitis

Lately, I’ve received reports of an uptick in people suffering from something called “sinusitis.” Sinusitis[Read More]

Survival Medicine Podcast: Antibiotic News, Winter Car Survival, Natural Remedies, More

  In this episode of the Survival Medicine Podcast, Dr. Joe Alton and Nurse Practitioner[Read More]

Survival Medicine Podcast: New Antibiotics

In this audio episode of the Survival Medicine Podcast, Dr. Joe Alton and Nurse Practitioner[Read More]

Ivermectin for COVID-19?

we’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of my original article “A New Pneumonia”, where[Read More]

The Case For Fish Antibiotics

More than a decade ago, I was the first physician to advocate for the storing[Read More]

How Many Antibiotics?

It stands to reason that infection will be a big issue confronting the survival medic.[Read More]

Tonsillitis In Austere Settings

Your tonsils are glands on each side of the back of the throat. Their job[Read More]

What You Might Not Know About Hand Washing

One of the simplest ways to maintain good health is washing your hands. You may[Read More]

A New Virus In Kazakhstan?

Over the years, I have made it my mission to notify the public (those that[Read More]

A Brief History of the Spanish Flu Pandemic

We’ve spent a lot of time discussing the COVID-19 pandemic on this channel, but we[Read More]

Things To Know About The R-Nought Number

If you’ve paid any attention to the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 or watched movies like[Read More]

Survival Medicine Podcast: Home Care For COVID-19 Patients

COVID-19 tests are now available in larger numbers in the U.S. and the numbers of[Read More]

If COVID-19 Isn’t A Pandemic, I Don’t Know What is

COVID-19: PANDEMIC STATUS? The SARS-CoV2 virus, newest member of the coronavirus family has proven to[Read More]

Video: WHO Guidelines for Home Care of COVID-19 Patients

WHO Guidelines for Home Care In situations like the current COVID-19 epidemic, international health agencies[Read More]

Survival Medicine Podcast: Coronavirus

Unless you just got back from a trip to Mars, you probably know that there’s[Read More]

Coronavirus Update

Latest news on 2019-nCoV Unless you just got back from a trip to Mars, you[Read More]

Video: Face Masks, Part 1

Video: Face Mask Basics Throughout history, infectious diseases have been part and parcel of the[Read More]

Coronavirus: The Next Pandemic?

Last week, we reported on a mysterious ailment first reported Dec. 8th, 2019, in Wuhan,[Read More]

Survival Medicine Podcast: Pneumonia in Austere Settings

Health authorities in China are reporting 60-70 cases of a previously unknown viral pneumonia that[Read More]

A New Pneumonia

Health authorities in China are reporting 60 cases or more of a previously unknown viral[Read More]

Survival Medicine Podcast: Dengue Fever, Permethrin

Survival Medicine Podcast #379 Today, we talk about a mosquito-borne illness. What? It’s freezing out there,[Read More]

Dengue Fever in the U.S.

LOCAL TRANSMISSION OF DENGUE FEVER Down here in South Florida, we get outbreaks of tropical[Read More]

Survival Medicine Podcast: Infectious Disease

THE SURVIVAL MEDICINE PODCAST #376 Hey, I’ll bet you’ve wondered from time to time if[Read More]

Antibiotics: Both Sides Of The Coin

ANTIBIOTICS: BOTH SIDES OF THE COIN A number of infectious diseases, mostly respiratory and intestinal,[Read More]

Survival Medicine Podcast: Deadly Viruses

Infectious disease is of major concern in good times or bad, and the family medic[Read More]

Clindamycin

CLINDAMYCIN AS A MEDICAL STORAGE ITEM In any situation where modern medicine is not available,[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour #370: Amebiasis, Nail Bed Injuries, Altitude Sickness

A fractured femur or a gunshot wound to the chest are major injuries that affect[Read More]

Wound Debridement

Medical professionals like doctors, nurses, and paramedics and the high-tech equipment they work with are[Read More]

Ebola in Central Africa: Forgotten But Not Gone

EBOLA IN CENTRAL AFRICA For some time, The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in[Read More]

#363 Survival Medicine Hour: Hepatitis, Jeff Motes of “Once Upon an Apocalypse”, More

#363 SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Outbreaks of hepatitis A are springing up in various parts of[Read More]

Antibiotics and Probiotics

A while ago, I received a question from a listener about the use of antibiotics[Read More]

#356 Survival Medicine Hour: Snakebites, Doxycycline, More

#356 SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Warm weather wakes humans up from their hibernation, but it[Read More]

#351 Survival Medicine Hour: Cholera, Drug Storage, Shooters, More

#351 SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST You might associate armed attacks with wars or survival scenarios,[Read More]

#350 Survival Medicine Hour: Suture Materials, Water Off The Grid, More

#350 Survival Medicine Hour Last week, the Altons discussed less invasive methods of wound closure[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Wound Closure, Natural vs Conventional Therapy, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST with JOE ALTON MD and AMY ALTON ARNP In survival scenarios,[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Treating Fractures, Tourniquets, Face Masks, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST The use of tourniquets to control bleeding has been in use[Read More]

VIDEO: Kissing Bugs and Chagas Disease

VIDEO: KISSING BUGS AND CHAGAS DISEASE In this video companion to a previous article, Joe[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Kissing Bugs, Chagas Disease, Broken Bones, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST It’s a rare individual who passes an entire lifetime without breaking[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Medications with Dr. Bones and Todd Sepulveda of Prepper Website

SURVIVAL MEDICINE PODCAST  The Altons are in Gatlinburg, fresh off the Mother Earth News Fair[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Probiotics and Antibiotics, Structural Fires, More

SURVIVAl MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST For years, Dr. Bones has been writing about antibiotics and how[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Tornadoes, Nettles, Expiration Dates, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Spring is tornado season, and all up and down Tornado Alley,[Read More]

Video: Expiration Dates and the Off-Grid Medic

VIDEO: EXPIRATION DATES  UPDATE In survival scenarios, the medic will eventually be caring for the[Read More]

VIDEO: Creating An Epidemic Sick Room

VIDEO: CREATING AN EPIDEMIC SICK ROOM 100 years, ago, the world was hit with a[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Mumps, Expiration Dates, OTC Drugs, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Sometimes, diseases that are rare today pop up unexpectedly, such as[Read More]

Mumps and Mariners

MUMPS Sometimes, diseases that are rare today pop up unexpectedly, such as the recent outbreak[Read More]

Video: Which Antibiotics?

VIDEO: WHICH ANTIBIOTICS TO HAVE IN SURVIVAL SETTINGS If a disaster throws you off the[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Which Antibiotics, “The Unraveling”, more

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Survival Group Medicine Handbook guru Charley Hogwood comes to the show[Read More]

Which Antibiotics To Have For Survival Settings?

WHICH ANTIBIOTICS TO HAVE? (NOTE: The information below is only meant for circumstances where there[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Pediatric First Aid, Keflex, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST In this episode of the Survival Medicine Hour, Joe Alton MD[Read More]

Video: Dr. Alton Interviewed By Canadian Prepper

VIDEO: CANADIAN PREPPER INTERVIEWS DR. BONES Our good friend The Canadian Prepper has a large[Read More]

Video: Antibiotics In Survival: How Much Is Enough?

VIDEO: HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH WHEN IT COMES TO ANTIBIOTIC STORAGE? There are many reasons[Read More]

Patient Transport in Austere Settings

PATIENT TRANSPORT IN AUSTERE SETTINGS In normal times, your main goal upon encountering an injured[Read More]

Video: Xofluza: A New Anti-Flu Drug

Video: XOFLUZA Last year, 80,000 Americans died from the influenza virus. Early treatment with anti-viral[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: How Many Antibiotics, Shooter Events, Hangnails, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST A gunman opened fire inside an Aurora manufacturing plant on Friday,[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Radiation, Pt.2, Measles, Crystal Meth

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST We don’t often get to report good news these days, but[Read More]

Accumulating Antibiotic Stockpiles: How Much Is Enough?

HOW MANY ANTIBIOTICS DO YOU NEED? Some years ago I began writing about medical preparedness[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Mudslides, Survival Medics, Supplies, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST In a long term survival situation, it will be an extremely[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Pneumonia, Medic Duties, Virus vs. Bacteria

Today, we have advanced laboratory studies that allow identification of many pathogens. Despite this, it[Read More]

Xofluza: A New Anti-Viral For Influenza

XOFLUZA (BALOXAVIR): A NEW ANTI-VIRAL The human body spends a lot of energy fighting for[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Hypothermia, Winter Strandings, Avalanches, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST This week, Winter Storm Gia, they’ve been naming them for a[Read More]

Video: Asthma in Survival Settings, Part 2

VIDEO: ASTHMA, PART 2 We usually write about Asthma in the Spring, when pollen counts[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Influenza, Epi-pens, Falls Through the Ice, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Infectious disease is of major concern in good times or bad,[Read More]

Deadly Viruses, Part 2

DEADLY VIRUS, PART 2 Infectious disease is of major concern in good times or bad,[Read More]

Deadly Viruses, Part 1

DEADLY VIRUSES, PART 1 Infectious disease is of major concern in good times or bad,[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Asthma, Pandemics, Food Myths, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Ask people about the last pandemic and most will say it[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Survival at Sea, Sharks, Antibiotics, More

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR Upon the passing of President George H. W. Bush, we should remember[Read More]

Home Remedies For Burns

HOME REMEDIES FOR BURNS Certainly, burns are injuries that can have long-standing consequences in good[Read More]

Food Safety Standards: Clean, Separate, Cook, Chill

FOOD SAFETY: CLEAN, SEPARATE, COOK, CHILL The person that’s responsible for the health of their[Read More]

Video: Alton’s Antibiotics and Infectious Disease

Video: Our New Book Alton’s Antibiotics and Infectious Disease: The Layman’s Guide to Available Antibacterials[Read More]

Multistate Food Poisoning Outbreaks

MULTISTATE FOOD POISONING OUTBREAKS An outbreak of food poisoning with Escherischia coli (E. coli) has[Read More]

Survival Medicine Hour: Burns, Nail Issues, New Book, More!

SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Joe Alton MD and Amy Alton ARNP are pleased to announce[Read More]

New Book: Alton’s Antibiotics and Infectious Disease

Alton’s Antibiotics and Infectious Disease: The Layman’s Guide to Available Antibacterials in Austere Settings Years[Read More]