what would you do if you couldn't go down to the
local cvs or walmart and get the medicines that you need
how's it going guys welcome back to the pilot patriot channel today we're going to be talking
about survival medicine and how to make sure you have the medicines you need in an emergency
or grid down situation in today's world most illnesses can be treated by just popping a
pill but what if that all changed in an emergency situation or grid down scenario usually pharmacies
are going to be the first thing to be looted in this video we're going to talk about what kind
of medicines you can store for emergencies and how to get your hands on them but first if you haven't
done it yet guys make sure you hit that subscribe button down below hit that notification bell
and give us a thumbs up most preparedness-minded people understand the importance of having first
aid kits and medical kits and things like that but one thing that can sometimes be overlooked
or hard to find is medicine first let me just say i'm not a doctor and i don't pretend to give any
kind of medical advice so anything i mentioned in this video is just a suggestion and you should
obviously consult your doctor to make sure you're taking the right kind of medications and the right
doses so let's dive right in and take a look at what kind of medications you should store up for
emergencies the first kind of medicine we're going to talk about and the easiest to acquire
right now is over-the-counter medications the first over-the-counter medicines we're
going to talk about are things for pain relief inflammation and fever things like acetaminophen
ibuprofen and aspirin even though these things are easy to get right now most people have a very
small supply on hand and in a prolonged emergency situation they will run out and even though these
things are very common most of us don't really understand how much we're really going to miss
these if we don't have access to them the next over-the-counter medicine that's important to have
is anti-diarrhea and anti-nausea medications in a disaster or survival situation it can be very
common to get into some contaminated water or food poisoning and without a way to treat those
symptoms that could be fatal so having things like ammonium and pepto-bismol are important
and one note about these things if you are going to store medicine like pepto-bismol
it's better to do it in the pill form rather than the liquid form that pill form is going to
store a whole lot longer the other side of that could be storing up things like stool softeners
and laxatives next would be cold medications the common cold or even the flu is not something that
we really worry about anymore but without the proper medication it would be very difficult
so things like cold and flu medicines and sudafed can be great to have now often cold medicines
are highly regulated so this is something you may have to get a little bit at a time
the next big one is going to be vitamins having good multivitamins is going to be very important
in situations like this especially in situations where you may not be getting a complete diet
or if you're having to ration food having good multivitamins can help supplement your diet and
keep you healthy and when you're looking at vitamins don't forget things like children's
vitamins and prenatal vitamins often children and expecting mothers are going to be most susceptible
to vitamin deficiencies next is going to be allergy medications like benadryl and allegra
allergies are another thing that in today's world are just a mild inconvenience but in a situation
where you don't have access to those relieving medications it can turn into a very bad situation
also if you're allergic to anything like bee stings you will need to be prepared to treat that
whether it be an epipen or some other medication because going to the hospital may not be an option
another thing that you can get over the counter that could be very important
in survival situations is things like alcohol and peroxide these can be very important for
treating and cleaning wounds and things like that and also having a good first
aid or medical kit is important as well the next big one we're going to talk about is antibiotics
since the beginning of time one of the biggest killers of people has been infection and today
most infections can be treated with antibiotics these are usually only by prescription and only
enough for one treatment but in an shtf grid down or emergency situation small cuts or scrapes in a
dirty or contaminated environment can be a death sentence so having antibiotics is probably going
to be at the very top of my list of medicines that you need to store for emergency situations
now one thing you should never never do is take veterinary antibiotics like this fish
amoxicillin right here even though they are the exact same medicine as human antibiotics
and can be found very easily on a pet store shelf so if you find yourself in an emergency
situation and you are dying from an infection i definitely do not recommend taking the possibly
veterinary antibiotics however if you want to stock up on these totally 100 only for your pets
that may be a good idea now if you're looking for antibiotics of the human variety
there is a company that is revolutionary in the preparedness world right now this is
jace medical jace medical is a company that will prescribe you an emergency supply of
various different types of antibiotics that you may need these are antibiotics that are prescribed
to you by a real doctor filled by real pharmacies jace medical is an online service powered by real
doctors that will prescribe you an emergency supply of antibiotics the antibiotics you can
expect to get from jace medical and please guys don't expect me to say these correctly
but zithromax doxycycline metronidazole ciprofloxacin azithromycin and amoxicillin
now jace medical makes it a pretty easy process you just go onto their website and i will put
links in the description below if you want to get some of this for yourself but you go on
their website and do a quick questionnaire and consultation you'll give them some information
on your medical background and one of their doctors will write a prescription for you that's
then filled by one of their partner pharmacies and shipped directly to your door for only 249
dollars now that's actually pretty good price for everything that you're going to get in this kit
you're also going to get an emergency antibiotic guide that's going to explain to you how each of
these antibiotics should be used and what doses you should take it in and for what period of time
the antibiotics that they provide to you are going to treat things like skin infection uti pneumonia
and even treat sicknesses from bioterror attacks like anthrax now right now jace medical is only
offering antibiotics in their kid but they also plan in the future to prescribe emergency supplies
of other chronic medications so make sure you check out jace medical guys having a good stock of
emergency antibiotics is going to be crucial to have in your preparedness medicine kit next thing
we're going to talk about is prescriptions these are anything that you have to take on a daily
basis things like blood pressure medications heart disease medications things that you just can't
go without most of the time these are prescribed in low doses and can be very difficult to get an
emergency supply of things like this one thing you could do is just talk to your doctor go to
your doctor explain to him that you'd like to have an emergency supply of this type of medicine
for emergency situations situations where you may not be able to get to the pharmacy or situations
where the doctor can't be reached or anything like that just explain it to them talk to them about it
and there is a chance they may say okay here's a prescription for an extra month's supply
that may or may not work but it's worth a try one prescription drug that is going to be a huge issue
in a grid down situation is insulin not only is the supply gonna be a problem but it also has
to be refrigerated so if you're going to store an extra amount of this for emergencies you're going
to have to have an off-grid power source so that you can power a small refrigerator or something
like that to keep it down to the temperature it needs to be to preserve it the next one we're
going to talk about is prescription pain killers narcotics opioids that kind of thing now these are
highly regulated but they could be nice to have on hand at least in small quantities for an emergency
situation now these are highly addictive and very dangerous so you do need to be careful about how
you use that and you need to store them so that children and unauthorized people can't get access
to them now this is one that doctors are not likely to prescribe you an emergency supply of
opioid addictions and painkiller addictions are a huge problem and a lot of people take advantage
of those and abuse them so the doctors are not going to give you an emergency supply of that
but if you have some left over from a surgery or something like that you may want to store
those away for emergency situations where you find yourself in chronic pain and a doctor's
office or a hospital is not accessible of course they should only be ones that were prescribed
to you i definitely don't recommend going and buying them off the street or anything like that
the next one we're going to talk about is home remedies so home remedies herbal
remedies and natural medicines have been used for hundreds and thousands of years to treat
all the illnesses that we treat today with modern medicine so having a good knowledge of
home remedies and how to treat certain things can be very important i will put a link in the
description below to a couple books on that subject so often guys in emergency situations
knowledge is going to help you out more than anything else for example honey can be used as a
topical treatment for wounds and finally guys the last medication we're going to talk about is one
that we mentioned briefly in our last video about surviving a nuclear attack if you haven't seen
that video i'll put a link to that right here at the top of the screen but that medication is going
to be an anti-radiation treatment for nuclear attack these are medicines like thyrosafe and
iosat these medicines are going to protect your thyroid to help prevent sickness from
radiation poisoning in nuclear fallout and guys since we're talking about storing medications
for emergency situations we're most likely talking about long-term storage so something to really
think about is the expiration date of medicines now most if not all medicine is going to have
some type of listed expiration date and there are medicines that can be dangerous if you take them
after that expiration date so make sure you do your own research on that so you're not going
to hurt yourself rather than help yourself but i can say that the vast majority of medications
would be safe to take even after that expiration date and most of those are going to maintain 90
to 100 percent of their effectiveness up to 5 or even 10 years or longer even after that time
period they're still not going to be dangerous for you to take most likely what happens over
time after that expiration date is they just start to lose a little bit of their effectiveness
over time so they may just not work as well but in emergency situation it's still going to be
better than nothing again i just want to point out i'm not a doctor this is not medical advice so do
your own research ask your doctor about the true effectiveness and expiration dates on medicine are
they still safe to take after that expiration date in a lot of cases the answer that is going to be
yes they are safe they just may lose their potency over time another thing to think about when you're
storing medications for long periods of time is that you want to be storing up hard medicines not
liquids or gel capsules or things like that the hard pill form is going to store the longest
another thing i definitely recommend along with storing up medications for emergency situations
is having good books on the subject so books like this survival medicine guide
by doctors joseph and amy alton this is one of the best preparedness books that you can get
on the subject of survival medicine it's going to talk specifically about treating things
when the grit is down and you don't have access to doctors and pharmacies so i will link to that book
in the description below i'm also going to link to a few books on medicinal plants some books on
dental medicine in survival situations where you can't go to the dentist and don't forget
i'm also going to be linking to jace medical and some other things in the description below
so if you're interested in being prepared as it pertains to medicines make sure you check out
those links in the description below all right guys that's pretty much all i have for you again
these are just suggestions if you guys have any other suggestions make sure you leave those down
in the comments below if you have any comments on anything we talked about make sure you let us know
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