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Guide to Using Super Glue for Closing Wounds

Guide to Using Super Glue for Closing Wounds

Guide to Using Super Glue for Closing Wounds Sometimes the most is learned and gained from our mistakes. This is one of those products. The original intent in development of the product wasn’t as a glue at all. But the failed product was too sticky for its purposes. This unintended side effect is what has …

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In Field Wound Care The 6 Hour Rule

In Field Wound Care The 6 Hour Rule

In Field Wound Care The 6 Hour Rule Accidents happen. Doesn’t matter if you are in the process of bugging out due to an urgent SHTF scenario or enjoying the day in your own back yard. You or someone with you can suffer a serious wound in a matter of seconds. How you handle the …

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Save Yourself From Choking

Save Yourself From Choking

Save Yourself From Choking Most everyone in every country has heard of the Heimlich maneuver used to save another from choking to death. But what do you do to save yourself from choking if no one is there to preform the maneuver on you? 1st stay calm. I know that is much easier said than …

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Everyday SHTF Home Remedies From Your Kitchen

Everyday SHTF Home Remedies From Your Kitchen

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Everyday SHTF Home Remedies From Your Kitchen Today’s post features a link from Survival Kit which gives us some information on simple everyday home remedies for non complicated irritating but not life threatening physical problems. You want to be at your best everyday, who doesn’t? But if there is …

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Grow, Cure And Store Garlic

How To Grow, Cure And Store Your Own Garlic

Grow, Cure And Store Garlic Garlic is one of the most popular vegetables out there. Especially to preppers, homesteaders, chefs, and herbalists. It has so many popular qualities from flavor to tincture production. You will find garlic as a topic on just about every site for all of the above uses! It’s versatile, easy to …

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MIY SHTF Penicillin

MIY SHTF Penicillin

MIY SHTF Penicillin A generation or two ago people died from simple small wounds that became infected. Many more died from STD’s that went untreated until the advent of penicillin. Now these deaths are quite rare and the infections have to be much worse to cause death. In any major SHTF event the basic necessary …

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Homemade Cough Syrup That Reduces Phlegm

Homemade Cough Syrup That Reduces Phlegm Carrots tend to get under-rated in the area of health benefits. I can attest to the fact that in many European countries carrot juice is one of the first juices introduced to babies for skin health. I remember myself as a child being told carrots would assist my eye …

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Hand-Foot-And-Mouth Disease

Hand-Foot-And-Mouth Disease It looks like chicken pox and sounds a bit like hoof and mouth disease, but it’s neither!  Hand-Foot-Mouth-Disease is caused by a couple of viruses. Coxsackievirus A16 is the most common cause and Enterovirus 71 is the second-most common. It is highly contagious like the chicken pox caused by the varicella-zoster virus and is not the …

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Post SHTF Diseases To Be Prepared For

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Post SHTF Diseases To Be Prepared For Most of us have some kind of preparation done for illness in general. We keep a bottle of aspirin and perhaps a partially used bottle of cold medication in the medicine cabinet of our homes. Many people also did some stocking up on …

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Herbal Wound Care

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Herbal Wound Care   In a crisis scenario of any kind, man-made or natural disaster, there will be injuries of some sort. Whether the situation is local or national medications and medical assistance will be more difficult to obtain. In this type of crisis a simple injury could become …

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