I really second/third everyone check out the Listening to Katrina blog, and make a realistic assessment of their risk factors. A lot of people tend to think of having to run and gun from Ivan (WOLVERINES!) or survive in the backwoods after al-Shabab takes out the power grid, but the documentation and comfort stuff will be sorely missed if your house burns down but society is intact.
Also, really be honest about the capabilities of anyone else involved. When my living situation changed from an apartment with a couple of former hard-charging Marines to my very-civilized lady and a cat, it changed my game plan for nearly everything A LOT.
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Read the fine print on the items listed to understand the concepts behind the items. Pay particular attention to the types of items used to keep cell phones and other USB items charged.
One thing not listed is this USB quick charger for AA and AAA batteries: https://www.amazon.com/EBL-Battery-A...ebl+usb&sr=8-4
I have it and it works pretty well.
Oral Rehydration Salts are an inexpensive, compact, addition to your 1st Aid Kit that will help with dehydration.
Two cheap and easy recipes to make them, if you need to:
1. Handy expedient
- Half a teaspoon of table salt
- 2 tablespoons of sugar
- 1 liter of water
2. World Health Organization "Official" recipe.
- 1 quart water
- Half teaspoon of sea salt
- Half teaspoon baking soda
- Quarter teaspoon of salt substitute (potassium chloride; cream of tartar is a substitute.)
- 8 teaspoons of sugar
IIRC, the sugar in these helps the body absorb the chemicals provided by the salt and (in the latter recipe) other components.
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“It doesn’t matter what the problem is, the solution is always for us to give the government more money and power, while we eat less meat.”
Glenn Reynolds
You can also just use regular super glue - it's fine. I think they are just different cyanoacrylate esters. The stuff they use in dermabond is 2-octylcyanoacrylate IIRC but I don't think that particular form is isubstantially different than any other cyanoacrylate baed adhesive. Loctite makes a reasonably priced version too - ~$18/3mL, which should last a long time. That said, i
That said, liquid adhesive bandages are of somewhat limited utility. Vetbond/dermabond is good for relatively superficial non suturable injuries (like cutting a small amount tip of your finger off, for example). It's less helpful for suturable lacerations as it does not provide any tension to the wound, which you need to bring the edges of a laceration together to allow for healing.
Re: wound closing, when I suture my prep just consists of sterile saline irrigation. Clean tap water would also probably fine. Goal is to remove particulate debris that will impair wound healing or could serve as a nidus for infection. Fancier antiseptics like chlorhexidine, betadine etc are usually used in the hospital for prepping a field for much invasive stuff that should not be attempted at home (eg surgery) so no worries there.
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All the Oral Re hydration Salts have I used have tasted like ass, hard to choke down. Used to dilute Gatorade but found this recently and it is good:
https://www.skratchlabs.com/collecti...12511158566983
I would highly advise anyone packing a go bag to ruck that bag however many miles you think it'll take you and see what works.
Also understand how far you can move on foot and how long it takes.
You may be better off sheltering in place vs rucking 30+ miles if your body isn't up to it.
Recovering Gun Store Commando. My Blog: The Clue Meter
“It doesn’t matter what the problem is, the solution is always for us to give the government more money and power, while we eat less meat.”
Glenn Reynolds