Re bandaids: there is an otc product called tegaderm available at the local drug store-it is a semi-permeable membrane with adhesive. lets water vapor out, prevents liquid water from coming in. Use it in hospitals and ems to secure and protect iv sites. if you place a 2X2 gauze over the wound, maybe a little bacitarcin ointment, then a teg, you get a water-proof breathable dressing: no maceration, no wetting of the wound from the outside. Nextcare bandaids use this membrane in some editions-particularly those that look like tattoos. Avoid the barbie bandaids for survival situations, its just...wrong.
RE drug out dates-ignore them. Outdates are placed on the packages by the marketing department, not by the scientists. if you get the pill wet or damaged, it is out dated right then, no matter what the package says; if you keep the pill in intact packaging reasonably cool and in the dark, it remains effective for a long, long time. Military ran some tests 10 years after the gulf war to see if it needed to discard millions of dollars worth of outdated meds. Efficacy tests were conducted, and they decided not to discard them.
Re oral antibiotics- problem is, you gotta figure out which kind of infection you want to treat. Levaquin is good for sinusitis, pneumonia, urinary tract infections; duricef is good for wound infections. maybe the answer is to purchase a bottle veterinary-use penicillin or amoxacillin-hmmm
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