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User Info Putting Some NUMBERS To This Mess; entered at 2020-03-08 00:57:34
Orangemanbadeh
Posts: 1095
Registered: 2019-04-22
I'm just gonna throw this out here as more along the lines of triage/first aide if you are sick.

Tickerguy is right: Get Your Ass in Shape if you can. I've been trying to jog a bit every day.

Now as for emergency field medicine. I am not a doctor, anything I say is only things I would do in a pinch, because I have done them and plan to do them again if all access to hospitals and clinics are closed and I have to help treat myself and others.

You can still get bronchial dilator is like ephedra and primatene to keep in reserve on hand. Those will temporarily help with the O2 situation however they are vasoconstrictors and will raise blood pressure, they should be used very very sparingly. Old school asthmatics keep them around as a cheaper alternative to Albuterol.

Also B Complexes tend to have similar effects on capillary dilation in the alveoli, increasing blood gas exchange. Again this isn't without it's downsides, as it's B12 I think which causes kidney strain and this virus is a bitch with what it does to your organs.

I keep a cabinet stocked with all of this stuff, including asthma inhalers and Benadryl as well. In a cytokine storm Benadryl can mean the difference between life and death.

As for Vitamin C, Linus Pauling won his Nobel Prizes for a reason. He was also a little bit mad. His cancer claims might have been conformation bias but his theories in general on C and our bodies maladaptation lacking the enzyme to synthesize it and animal bodies using it for metabolism are factually accurate.

Again I can't say 'it will cure you all' it won't.

I will say, the evidence I've seen in SARS studies is that it does help. I've also seen first hand in my own N1 study when I used it for Mono, I was back up to normal in a week when my dipshit doctor at the time told me I'd be down for a month.

No I don't keep IVs of it on hand, I just keep a ****ton of oral around. It will absorb via the gut, just takes 4 hours like water rehydration via the small intestine. Yes IV would be better but you know what would suck? Getting an infection from fucking up a placing a needle during the apocalypse.

Yeah, I'll just eat 5 or 6 packs of emergency-c and avoid the heroin junkie tracmarks.

There is still time to do improve your health and prepare for triage/first aide, maybe even lifesaving first aide.

The dollar tree has oral rehydration solution for a dollar a bottle as well as expectorants like guafficine and Benadryl sold as a sleep aid.

Hell even having dextromethorphan and quantity on hand is helpful, because if nothing else you can get your sick people high and make them not care as much about how shitty the situation is.

Also as a side note: keep some bleach and acetone handy, I always do.

You can make chloroform in a pinch. Not that I'd recommend it, but if society is melting down, it could come in handy.
2020-03-08 00:57:34