The Ultimate Guide To The Best Survival Water Filters
Water filtration is one of the most if not the most important part of any survival plan. You can do for a while without a lot of things but water … Read More
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Knowing how to provide medical care during a short or long term emergency should be near the top of any preppers list of skills to learn. When starting out you need to build a medical kit that offers a variety of treatments for a wide range of conditions.
From picking the right vitamins for better health, to preparing for a pandemic or getting over the common cold, you are in the right place to learn and grow your skills and knowledge.
Prevention is important and we have a lot of helpful posts that can help you be healthier now. There are many natural remedies that can help alleviate common conditions.
Maybe you already have a medical kit and basic knowledge? For the advanced prepper our posts on dental emergencies and major trauma can help hone your skills for dealing with those rare emergencies where a few seconds can make all the difference.
We are glad you are here and hope to help you be as prepared as possible for a better future!
Prevention and Basic Preparedness
Preventing medical problems is always best. From taking precautions against wound infections to preventing the flu and common colds, you will find it right here. Worried about pandemics? We can show you how to prepare now and increase your chances of getting through.
Prepper Preparedness: Personal Fitness and Health
8 Things You Can Do Now to Promote Medical Self-Care
Acute Mountain Sickness: Signs, Prevention and Treatment
What We Can Expect from the 2018 Flu Season & the Best Ways We Can Protect Ourselves
What You Need to Know About Colds, Flu and Respiratory Infections
How to Use Essential Oils to Relieve Sinus Congestion
Top 4 Medicinal Mushroom Powerhouses
Eight Essential Oils for Health and Wellness
Alternative Infection Prevention and Treatment
DIY Castor Oil Packs for Health Preparedness
Do-It-Yourself Vaccine to Halt the Spread of Germs
The Best Vitamins And Supplements For Hard Times
Fish Antibiotics and Other Drugs
Antibiotics are amazing life saving drugs. Having a variety of fish antibiotics on hand allows you to treat a lot of different types of infections. During hard times infections can become more common due to harsh living conditions and poorer hygiene among the masses. Knowing when and how to use antibiotics is important though because you do not want to use them for every little scrape. Join us and learn what you need and how to utilize life saving antibiotics during a survival situation.
What You Need to Know About Expired Prescription Drugs
Why Store Fish Antibiotics For Survival
9 Simple Tips to Prevent Antibiotic Resistance
Remedies For Common Conditions
No matter how healthy you are at some point who doesn’t suffer from aches and pains or a common cold? Over the years Backdoor Survival has released many posts that help you use essential oils, herbs, and other natural remedies to help you lead a healthier life every day.
Top 5 Essential Oils for Migraines
Elderberry Tincture: A Labor of Love
DIY Miracle Healing Salve: Wild Plant Edition
Health Benefits of Garlic: The Medicinal Use of Garlic
18 Herbal Remedies for Aches and Pains
25 Natural Remedies For Diabetes
Treating Psoriasis with Essential Oils
DIY Healing Vapor Rub for Coughs & Congestion
Survival Medicine: Insect Bites and Stings
Survival Dental Care
During good times it is easy to forget about dental health. Dealing with dental emergencies is something every prepper should familiarize themselves with. Your teeth can have a major effect on the function of your entire body. The posts below will show you what you need to be prepared and get through dental issues when they arise.
Dealing with Dental Abscesses Off The Grid
Prepper’s Guide to Dental Equipment and Dental Exams
How to Survive a Dental Emergency: From Temporary Toothache to Long Term Situations
Emergencies
During an emergency seconds count. Knowing how to approach trauma, brain injuries, snake bites, and hypothermia are bits of knowledge that are well worth learning. So many emergencies such as heavy bleeding can be survived it the right action is taken at the right time. With these articles you can start to build or improve your medical kit and skills so you have what it takes to survive and help those around you.
What Every Prepper Needs to Know About Hypothermia
How to Survive Snake Bites – The Science of Antivenom
Traumatic Brain Injuries in Survival Settings
Review: Be Medically Prepared with a Gunshot & Bleeding Wound Kit
Best Practices for Dealing with Wounds in a Survival Situation
How to Deal With Open Wounds When Help is Not on the Way
A Kit to Treat Trauma Before Help Arrives
How to Disinfect and Sterilize Medical Instruments in a Survival Situation
How to Create an Emergency Ammo Can First Aid Kit
Using Potassium Iodide Following a Nuclear Incident
Treating the Runs in a Survival Situation
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Patient Advocacy For Good Times and Bad
Becoming medically prepared can be one of the most difficult aspects of prepping. First, there is the unpredictable nature of medical emergencies themselves. Then there is the prospect of inadequate medical training coupled with the lack of supplies and medicine.
Even during normal times, doing the right thing medically can have dire consequences. Something you may not have considered is the need for patient advocacy, both now and in the future when the prospect of getting good proper medical care is not likely. Dr. Joe Alton is back again with an all-new and all-important article of medical preparedness.
Healing Herbs: What You Need to Know About Mint
Mint is a prolific garden herb with many useful healing qualities. Learn to grow, harvest, preserve and use various types of mint for wellness purposes. This is the second in-depth article in the series on healing herbs you can grow yourself.
Prepper’s Guide to Dental Equipment and Dental Exams
Dental equipment and dental exams are not often written about within the context of long-term survival. This is surprising because our mouths are a portal into our body. Oral bacteria and decay can quickly move throughout our system using saliva as a carrier. The result is sickness and a compromised immune system.
In this article from our Survival Medic Series, Dr. Joe Alton explains what procedures and supplies we need to know about when dealing with dental health. Learn how to perform a dental exam and about the tools and equipment you need resolve dental emergencies, Plus, enter the giveaway to win a Survival Dental Kit valued at $199.
Healing Herbs: What You Need to Know About Comfrey
What is Comfrey? How do you grow it? What is it used for? Comfrey is a healing herb that grows almost everywhere. Learn about planting, growing, and harvesting comfrey, along with instructions for making a poultice, infusion and more.
Diffusers and You: What You Need to Know
Using a diffuser to dispense the healing qualities of essential oils is one of the easiest ways to become accustomed to their use. Say, for example, someone in your home is sick with a cold or flu. Adding 5 or 6 drops of an anti-microbial essential oil to a diffuser will allow the healing qualities of the oil to disperse and circulate around the room, benefiting all if its occupants.
Likewise, if you are having problems breathing, a few drops of an essential oil running in a diffuser can clear the nasal passages and allow you to breathe more easily, especially at night. If this sounds familiar to the old fashioned vaporizer our mother’s put in our rooms as kids, you are correct. The concept is the same but instead of breathing in a chemical cocktail invented by the OTC drug industry, you are breathing something plant based that is actually good for you.
In this article, I share with you some of the benefits of using an essential oil diffuser along with alternatives for those times when a diffuser is not available. I also suggest specific oils and blends to get you started. (Part 1 of a 2 part series).
Review: Be Medically Prepared with a Gunshot & Bleeding Wound Kit
Accidents do happen and we all need to be prepared for a medical emergency when help may not be on the way. It is my belief that everyone should have a kit that can control severe bleeding and my top choice is the Gunshot Wound Kit from Joe and Amy Alton’s Doom and Bloom Store. Today I will tell you about the kit and also, in a fantastic giveaway, offer both the kit and a copy of the book, The Survival Medicine Handbook, Third Edition, to one lucky reader of this article.
10 Top Myths About Preventing a Cold
Like the game of party line we played as kids, myths about colds and other short-term illnesses prevail. The reality is that the common cold is caused by a virus that is passed from person to person. They can occur anytime during the year and not just during what is commonly referred to as the “cold season”. So what are those myths? Contributing author Dr. Joe Alton is here to debunk them and to reinforce what I have always said: thoroughly washing your hands is one of the best ways to avoid sickness, including the common cold.
Warning: Some of these myths may surprise you. Who knew?
How to Use Essential Oils to Relieve Sinus Congestion
A sinus infection is miserable. Technically called sinusitis, this is a common ailment that first appears to be symptomatic of a common cold but in reality, is the result of swollen and inflamed nasal cavities. It is often caused by a virus which means treating with antibiotics is useless. That is just one reason why it makes sense to know how to treat the symptoms of a sinus infection without running to the drugstore for an armload of drugs that either will not work or will make you drowsy and incidentally raise your blood pressure.
Over the past couple of months, a number of people around me have suffered from sinus congestion. Like a mad scientist on a mission, I started experimenting with essential oils and with the help of Valerie Worwood’s fantastic book on essential oils, came up with a formula that works. If you have sinus problems, here is a DIY remedy using budget-friendly essential oils along with three different ways to use the blend: topically, in a diffuser, and by simple inhalation.