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by rik_uk3
Thu Jun 12, 2014 7:02 pm
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: home first aid kit
Replies: 47
Views: 18157

Re: home first aid kit

featherstick wrote:Try and do some,by hook or by crook - through work, or as a volunteer or something. The manuals are much better than they used to be but you need to train. Not least because when there's a need for first aid you'll panic and forget what you've learned.
Your right, read my post a few up from here.
by rik_uk3
Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:20 am
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: home first aid kit
Replies: 47
Views: 18157

Re: home first aid kit

I thought about this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/St-John-Ambulance-Home-First/dp/B0029LHCE0/ref=sr_1_4?s=drugstore&ie=UTF8&qid=1402567705&sr=1-4&keywords=st+johns+ambulance+home+first+aid+kit and to buy some burn kit plus some medicines in case of flu, diarrhoea and similar To be h...
by rik_uk3
Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:17 am
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: home first aid kit
Replies: 47
Views: 18157

Re: home first aid kit

Wilkinsons are selling all you need for a FAK. Check your stock of plasters every few months as some stop being sticky after a while. I also stock zinc oxide tape which seems to 'last' longer and is cheap enough to buy (cheap on ebay). The most important thing is training, go get some and then pract...
by rik_uk3
Tue Jun 10, 2014 2:02 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Hard Times Cookery ?
Replies: 23
Views: 4375

Re: Hard Times Cookery ?

Take a look at the videos made by 93 year old Clara who passed away in 2013, R.I.P. Clara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuMkW35BwK8

Enjoy :)
by rik_uk3
Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:44 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Prepping Report (A Start)
Replies: 43
Views: 10398

Re: Prepping Report (A Start)

Search for 'coolmax' socks, cotton based but the design wicks moisture away and they dry far far faster than wool. I like wool and still use it but have drifted more towards synthetic clothing over the last several years.
by rik_uk3
Sat Jun 07, 2014 5:44 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: group survival?
Replies: 119
Views: 18587

Re: group survival?

That canning machine is brilliant! Please report back if you find one? You could buy in bulk which is so much cheaper. Love that idea!!! The machine is not the problem, I've one in the UK for £150 or I could import a new one from the States for around a grand which again is not an issue really as I...
by rik_uk3
Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:47 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: group survival?
Replies: 119
Views: 18587

Re: group survival?

There are thousands of acres of farmland still pretty much unusable because of last years floods and will need several years to recover. There is climate change occurring but whether that is 'man made' or just mother gaia playing up is unproven (for me at least). Prepping for me is just that, being ...
by rik_uk3
Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:58 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: group survival?
Replies: 119
Views: 18587

Re: group survival?

easy in rural location, try to do so in dense area ;-) That's why I prefer to stick to somebody than be on my own - even if I think SHTF on massive long term scale won't happen it is better to be prepared a bit I don't think highly populated areas will be much good for long term survival post SHTF,...
by rik_uk3
Fri Jun 06, 2014 11:56 am
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: 1st contact with a surviver H7N9/bird flu
Replies: 19
Views: 4432

Re: 1st contact with a surviver H7N9/bird flu

No particular brand, I use Pears but I like the smell lol, look at the technique of washing which combined with soap and running water is a good basic hygiene technique. Remember that alcohol does not remove dirt and dirt on your hands and arms is perfect for some bacteria to find a home. On the war...
by rik_uk3
Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:46 am
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: 1st contact with a surviver H7N9/bird flu
Replies: 19
Views: 4432

Re: 1st contact with a surviver H7N9/bird flu

Hence my stash of hand gel,! Always have one in my bag, car on my desk. OCD has its uses! :roll: You have a point hygene and OCD are good bed partners when it comes to the nasty bugs, and yet in part too much hygene could be setting us up for a fall as with the over use of antibiotics causing the l...