First Aid - Various

GENERAL INFORMATION:

1) Stay calm.
2) Do what is URGENT first (A/R-H/M)
3) Call or send someone for a Doctor
4) Keep the victim immobile. Cover him up to avoid shock.
5) Does he breath? Does he bleed ? His heart is breathing?
6) NEVER MOVE the victim unless ABSOLUTE NECESSITY.
7) To help you, stay calm: Take 6 DEEP breaths.
8) Prevent danger from: Damaged buildings /electrical / gas /CUT POWER OFF!
9) Don't let crowd near accident, victim needs Fresh air.
10) Use other to help, reassure victim. Assure Transport
quickly.

STOMACH & ABDOMEN:
(From swallowing loose change, needles etc.)

FIRST- AID: Don't give any laxatives.

ABDOMINAL PAINS:
1) Send to hospital, case could be serious.
2) Don't give any laxative.
3) Don't give any food.

TOOTH ACHE:
Prevention: Brush teeth, See dentist regularly.
1) If tooth is rotten, clean cavity with tooth- pick rolled in cotton wool, then fill the cavity with a piece of cotton wool dipped in Clove essence.
2) If its not rotten put on what best relief (hot or cold).
3) Send to dentist.
4) Have him breath alcohol by the nostril opposite to the tooth ache.
5) Alcohol on cotton and sniffed through the nose relieves it.

DIABETES:
Those who need help usually suffer from excess insulin in their blood. Most diabetes patients carry medical ID card. Also often carry sugar or candies to correct them.

SYMPTOMS:
1) Fainting or weakening.
2) Transpiration.
3) Short & weak breathing.

FIRST- AID:
If victim conscious, have him take sugar, candies.

ANIMAL BITES:
It can cause tetanus & rabies. Human bites can cause a persisting infection.
1) Treat the bite as normal wound.
2) If you doubt rabies, try to identify the animal & call the police. Don't kill the animal but give it for observation.

LEECHES OFF:
TO TAKE THEM OFF, powder it with salt, or rub it with dry sand. Or use the burning end of a cigarette close to it, they will let go without problems.

CONTUSIONS: (Not Confusion?)
The skin is not broken, but the tissues can be wounded & damaged veins can cause swelling; put cold compress or ice on the swelling to reduce it diminish bleeding & relieve the pain.

FISH-HOOK IN SKIN:
HOW TO REMOVE IT?: The classical method is to thrust deeper the hook until the hook-head bypass the skin, then to cut it or saw it.
But I believe in a less painful & easier way to proceed. You weigh upon the hook firmly. The hook-end that has already made its way will do the reverse trip without hooking again. To help its evacuation, we use a fish-line passed in the hook curve, that way we can pull uniformly. If you are alone tie the fish-line to something in order to do the pulling-job

CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING:
This a DEADLY GAS resulting from the incomplete combustion of synthetic fuels. It may be fatal, if found in the air concentrations greater than 400 of 1% .
It is colourless, odourless, & tasteless bringing on headache drowsiness, nausea followed by unconsciousness and death in a very short time.
It can be prevented by maintaining good ventilation at all times, cleaning stoves and carburettors well before they are lighted.
Lamps and stoves should NEVER be left burning when sleeping. If ventilation is poor or it's necessary to have heat supplied during the night, natural fuel should be used if at all possible.
This gas burns with a blue flame if completes combustion takes place. If a yellow flame is being generated, the stove should be checked.

DISEASES FROM ANIMALS:
In the North 3 parasitic diseases exist in some animals that may be transmitted to human. The hare or rabbits may have one called: Tularaemia.
Care MUST be done while cleaning those animals as infection can be transmitted through a cut or open sore.

Trichinosis is a disease found in pigs in many parts of the world. The bear is also a carrier of disease.
Hydatid is a parasite carried by dog, wolves, fox and moose.

In all cases the meat of these animals can be eaten without danger if the meat has been well cooked.
Some fresh water fishes may be heavily infected with tape worm. Most salt water fishes can be eaten raw, but it's much better to cook the flesh well.

VASELINE: Have in s/kit via its many uses: to cook, smear etc.

CARE OF FEET:
Dirty or wet socks damage the feet. If you have only a pair of socks then wash them. If you have a spare pair, then slide the washed ones inside your shirt directly on your skin. This way your socks will dry quicker. Wool socks absorb very well the perspiration. Socks can be frozen then beaten to extract dust, salt, perspiration, & humidity. Wool socks are best all year around.

IN ORDER TO PREVENT INFECTION, YOU MUST WASH OFTEN A BLISTER.
If the blister is about to burst, you can pierce it using a needle sterilised to extract the liquid.
If it is not ready to burst, then just cover it with a small Band- Aid dressing in order to protect it from pressure and rubbing.

FOOT CARE:
From SAS technic via crossing cold countries survival medical Foot care and body care:
Learn to wrap your toes individually in gauze to prevent them from rubbing and dosed them with #mycota powder# .
If your feet despite all those precautions become raw and a bubbling mass of blister from walk far beyond the normal bounds of exhaustion. Especially where pinched toes have rubbed together despite the gauze inside the boots don't dare stop to remove the boots since the tortured feet will swell up like sausages and you will NEVER be able to put them back in your boots.
If you take them off it means you stop for a long time to recover. MAKE SURE it is not your last stop and that it is safe to take them off.
Also cover the straps of your Bergen (bag) with foam rubber held in place with masking tape or duct tape.

Don't try to sustain yourself with inedible sandwiches, instead bring a flask of hot coffee and tins of peaches in syrup which is one of the only substance you can get down after 30 miles hikes.

ALKA SELTZER AGAINST CRAMPS!:
Against Lactic acid morning cramp MAKE SURE you take a glass before doing the exercise.

ZINCOFACT:
A new tube of ointment called; ZINCOFACT which is great for burns it seems that zinc help those who get burn, also good for sunburn, it is worth checking***

LESS INFECTION:*
From the latest surgery room, the wounds washed with salted water have no infections since salt kills germs.

NUCLEAR WAR NOTE:
In case of nuclear war fall out, cover all skin with plastic sheet so that it does not come in contact with skin and it is easier to clean off.

SAD NOTE FOR US ALL:
All animals outside will have radiation sickness direct hit radiation & water drinking habits. Thus unsafe to eat. But for the one kept before during and after the war indoors and made sure that what they eat or drink is not contaminated since hay will carry radiation.
On the other hand we don't have to worry when after Armageddon since we are with Jesus on earth for a 1,000 years of peace without any sins or pollution wars, lies etc. Just peace on Earth
for 1,000 years. That's good news for sure. So don't worry!

SUPER GLUE SURGERY:
Super glue fan will REMEMBER that the first use of it was for the #embaumeurs# to glue skin together without sewing it, so in case of surgery on field one could use it to bring skin together fast and avoid doing surgery. ** A new glue to do just that just came out in 1994 try to get more informations from a doctor.

CITRONNELLA
Bug repellent supposed to be great to check called Oil Of Citronnella.

DIARRHOEA SOLUTION:
Water + salt + baking soda is the answer.

SPONGE: 1001 USES**
Artificial or natural size 6"x 4" in all Survival Kit, 2 of them. Sponge Water, dirt, blood etc. Helps to keep dry and clean. It's very important in survival to keep dry & clean.

ASTHMA:New drug just came out should help called Tilade.

BREATHING BY THE NOSE:
50 years ago Catlin an American wrote a book called: "Closed mouth and life saved." He was telling that the Indians practised this method since day one and were even imposing this method to their children by tying their mouth at night so as to force them to breath through the nose at night.
To breath by the nose prevents deadly germs to penetrate through the mouth into the throat and stomach also preventing the fermentation#vegetation adenoid# which can obstruct respiration
and bring deafness.
For a hunter it is particularly useful to breath though the nose, since by doing so you can AVOID MUCH OF THE THIRST WHILE HARD WORKING.
At night if you have the habit of breathing through the nose you will avoid snoring which can be dangerous if there are enemies nearby. So shut up and breath through the nose, beside it contributes to lower your anger.

ACNE CURE:
Wash your face with salted water, once the pimple has been punctured clean with salt or sea water and let some salt on the wound or pimple which will dry out the pus.

NEWS ON THE MARKET VIA FRACTURES:
There is on the market now for fractured arm or leg a plastic kit casing which once inflated will keep the injured member in position.
You should have at least 1 set per 3 persons. As much as possible get the team to know what to do in f/aid occasion, it is also for their own uses at times not only for others.

EMERGENCY STERILE BANDAGE:
Toilet paper and small elastic, rubber band, for small and medium cut and also, when burn, cover it with dry toilet paper then wet it after elastic is on.
Try with wet and salt in case of infection a bit of salt not too much unless real inflammatory, sea salt would be far better because of its living micro-organisms.

DROWNING: C/R WITH SEA TOO**
Best method lately was to use the Hemleich Hug method before doing the mouth to mouth, since the hug clears the lungs from the water into it.

SEA WATER BEST ANTISEPTIC:One of the best antiseptic is sea salted water, 2nd best water plus salt, the seawater is best for it has micro organism to help healing.

SEA FISH STINGS:
Whenever one of those fishes stings you, clean and empty the wound immediately. Place the affected part in hot water (50C. and more) or cover it with hot compress during 30-60 minutes, so as to destroy the toxin effect.
There are very few antidote to them. Some doctors say NEVER use water to clean the wound of those stings but to disinfect them with alcohol at 90 degrees and rub the sting with dry sand.
And while waiting for the doctor to bath the wound in cold salted water ?? WHO is right ?

BURNS:
Also the new 90% plasma burn bandage just got out should be fantastic to help along too, more inf. to get from pharmacy buy 1 box only $7.00 & good for other kind of wounds as well for that
matter.

VITAMINS 2,001 SPACE AGE TECH:
In July 92, came out from the labouratories into our usual drug stores, a multi-vitamin called : Spectrum 29 Essentials vitamins & minerals.
130 tablets = $8.00 *see full description from the one I have to buy to go to Israel with as well as the Tourista Pill, called Inodium 6 / $7.00***
Well worth the trouble to save troubles! No matter what continent we have to get accustomed to its germs warfare and tourista is the quickest way to flush the system and to adapt it to a new one.

WOUNDS:
Also found out that a good paste for Wounds is vitamin "E". Yet I propose and suppose that a paste with sterile water made with the 29 vitamins pills would work real good, it might be possible to add Spirolina as # 30 but ALWAYS in a separate containers. This is your energy booster which is different from the vitamins.

SPIROLINA:
Spirolina capsule work great against Cold symptoms, as soon as you feel a cold coming start using Spirolina, 3 to 4 a day for 4 days & you avoid the worst of the cold.

WINTER CAMPING HYGIENE: COLD
Often time at first & due to disorganised lavatory arrangement uncoordinated with the collecting of snow melting into drinking water.
One would end up with unwelcome foreign bodies in the tea so to avoid that, institute a rule that the loo is to the left and the "drinking" snow is to the right of the tent door.

WINTER NIGHT TRAVELLING:
It's a big mistake to travel by night while good weather last. One does not see the crevasses and could easily get killed.

GROUP TRAVELLING:SAS training encourage strongly that the fewer individuals in a group, the faster the majority will reach its goal. This presupposes that the weakest link can look after himself.
This is however not acceptable current mountain safety practices, but when survival is at a premium, then safety comes second up to a point. These rules are meant to be bent here and there. (& everywhere?)