Bring Your Own Bandages: Medicines and Supplies to Have on Hand Before Disaster Strikes

When disaster, social upheaval, or pandemic strike, the accidents and illnesses prompting people to seek urgent or emergency care will continue. Children will still suffer from ear infections and strep throat. Teens will still get appendicitis. Older adults will experience diverticulitis and pneumonia. Over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and prescription antibiotics can treat all of these. But in difficult times, just-in-time delivery of essential medicines is unreliable. So people must have them on hand. But what is needed? How much? How can people without medical training legally acquire these medications? What happens if they aren’t available? Bring Your Own Bandages answers all those questions for homesteaders, the preparedness community, and anyone who recognizes that the current system is too fragile to depend upon in a crisis. As the COVID-19 pandemic makes telemedicine available to all, how essential will it be to have medical supplies so that one doesn’t have to risk going to the pharmacy? This essential guide for people who need but can’t go see the doctor covers in plain language the medicines and supplies to have on hand for a doctor to care for your family, because in a crisis, you’ll have to bring your own bandages.