How do you deal with a pandemic flu and family?
Should it occur you face some serious challenges. The medical system will sooner or later collapse if the load of sick become to great. The hospitals will quickly become overloaded with sick and dying people. What do you do where do you go? Well, the most likely scenario would be to keep family members at home and do what you can to keep them alive. First reality is the flu is spread by a virus, antibiotics do not work on viruses! Second reality is you are going to have to isolate yourselves and also isolate at sick members of your family.
One way to do this is to be pro-active. That means be ready before cold and flu season, have all your ducks in a row. This also means if you do get them, flu shots and pneumonia shots. Not everyone will agree about the flu shot or will have other reasons not to, but I wont get into that. Also have a flu kit handy, this means OTC meds to treat the symptoms of the flu. This is also a good time to learn some herbal medicine and have your herbal tinctures and herbs on stand bye. There are lots of herbs that have anti-viral properties and there are some good OTC remedies out there as well. Find a qualified and well educated herbalist and take some lessons.
Once you have a really well stocked kit you will want to go to the hardware supply and get some items like tyvek suites, M-99 or 95 mask, several roles of 3-4 mil plastic sheeting, a staple gun and duct tape and even a few extra tarps. You will use the hardware store items to create an isolation room for anyone in your family who gets sick. You will want to also have items like bleach, medical gloves, a bucket several sponges and anything else you might need to keep things sanitized. Also do not forget to block the air registers in the isolation room, and if you can afford it get an air filter with HEPA filters and keep that sucker running! get one that will clean more square footage than the room, if it has a UV light crank that as well.. IF you know how, create the room to have a negative pressure, if not do what ever you can to keep the air contained to that room. Also remember to properly sterilize your self or anyone else that enters that room.
You can also find recipes for Thieves vinegar, which can be used as a disinfectant as well.
Should anyone get a pandemic flu you will have to react quickly, if its early get them to your Dr, do not go to the emergency room! The place will be full of sick people as well, there is no need to risk your health more than it already is. If your Dr is cool, he might hopefully get you some extra anti-viral meds. but these will be going quickly so don't count on it. Remember if you can successfully treat the flu symptoms your loved one can make it through.
Designate 2 people as the contact persons to treat sick ones(Shift work), these folks should be doing an herbal regiment to help prevent them from getting the flu. Have a disinfection station next to the room, make sure everyone follows procedure! The sick person/persons should be monitored and symptoms treated as needed. If you have access and they are having respiratory issues treat them with some oxygen or medicate a steam humidifier or nebulizer. You can also create a tent and use a steam humidifier to add various medicines or herbals to help them breath and remove congestion and mucus. You will want to make sure they don't develop pneumonia. Work hard to make sure keep symptoms under control. This is also why you will want to have a large flu kit! you can use up your meds real quick...
Trash and refuse that comes out of the room should be double bagged and removed directly to the trash, if it has to be stagged, stage it in the room but remove it as quick as you can.. Get some red colored bags or as close to red as possible to let everyone know not to mess with this waste.
When this person recovers you will want to quickly sanitize the whole room, to include washing or even destroying bed linens and the cloths they wore. If your lucky you can find some hospital gowns and have extra bed linens on hand for this.
If your family member doesn't recover you will need to be prepared for this as well. I will cover this at a later date.
I will add to this as I find info, so check back often.
Here are a few links for you.
http://altmedicine.about.com/od/coldsandflu/a/fluremedy.htm
http://www.diynatural.com/natural-cold-and-flu-remedies/
http://www.holisticonline.com/remedies/flu/cold_herbal-remedies-for-cold.htm
http://www.cpginteractive.com/sam/faqs.html
http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/seeds/seeds.php
https://www.horizonherbs.com/
http://www.medicinalherbfarm.com/
Should it occur you face some serious challenges. The medical system will sooner or later collapse if the load of sick become to great. The hospitals will quickly become overloaded with sick and dying people. What do you do where do you go? Well, the most likely scenario would be to keep family members at home and do what you can to keep them alive. First reality is the flu is spread by a virus, antibiotics do not work on viruses! Second reality is you are going to have to isolate yourselves and also isolate at sick members of your family.
One way to do this is to be pro-active. That means be ready before cold and flu season, have all your ducks in a row. This also means if you do get them, flu shots and pneumonia shots. Not everyone will agree about the flu shot or will have other reasons not to, but I wont get into that. Also have a flu kit handy, this means OTC meds to treat the symptoms of the flu. This is also a good time to learn some herbal medicine and have your herbal tinctures and herbs on stand bye. There are lots of herbs that have anti-viral properties and there are some good OTC remedies out there as well. Find a qualified and well educated herbalist and take some lessons.
Once you have a really well stocked kit you will want to go to the hardware supply and get some items like tyvek suites, M-99 or 95 mask, several roles of 3-4 mil plastic sheeting, a staple gun and duct tape and even a few extra tarps. You will use the hardware store items to create an isolation room for anyone in your family who gets sick. You will want to also have items like bleach, medical gloves, a bucket several sponges and anything else you might need to keep things sanitized. Also do not forget to block the air registers in the isolation room, and if you can afford it get an air filter with HEPA filters and keep that sucker running! get one that will clean more square footage than the room, if it has a UV light crank that as well.. IF you know how, create the room to have a negative pressure, if not do what ever you can to keep the air contained to that room. Also remember to properly sterilize your self or anyone else that enters that room.
You can also find recipes for Thieves vinegar, which can be used as a disinfectant as well.
Should anyone get a pandemic flu you will have to react quickly, if its early get them to your Dr, do not go to the emergency room! The place will be full of sick people as well, there is no need to risk your health more than it already is. If your Dr is cool, he might hopefully get you some extra anti-viral meds. but these will be going quickly so don't count on it. Remember if you can successfully treat the flu symptoms your loved one can make it through.
Designate 2 people as the contact persons to treat sick ones(Shift work), these folks should be doing an herbal regiment to help prevent them from getting the flu. Have a disinfection station next to the room, make sure everyone follows procedure! The sick person/persons should be monitored and symptoms treated as needed. If you have access and they are having respiratory issues treat them with some oxygen or medicate a steam humidifier or nebulizer. You can also create a tent and use a steam humidifier to add various medicines or herbals to help them breath and remove congestion and mucus. You will want to make sure they don't develop pneumonia. Work hard to make sure keep symptoms under control. This is also why you will want to have a large flu kit! you can use up your meds real quick...
Trash and refuse that comes out of the room should be double bagged and removed directly to the trash, if it has to be stagged, stage it in the room but remove it as quick as you can.. Get some red colored bags or as close to red as possible to let everyone know not to mess with this waste.
When this person recovers you will want to quickly sanitize the whole room, to include washing or even destroying bed linens and the cloths they wore. If your lucky you can find some hospital gowns and have extra bed linens on hand for this.
If your family member doesn't recover you will need to be prepared for this as well. I will cover this at a later date.
I will add to this as I find info, so check back often.
Here are a few links for you.
http://altmedicine.about.com/od/coldsandflu/a/fluremedy.htm
http://www.diynatural.com/natural-cold-and-flu-remedies/
http://www.holisticonline.com/remedies/flu/cold_herbal-remedies-for-cold.htm
http://www.cpginteractive.com/sam/faqs.html
http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/seeds/seeds.php
https://www.horizonherbs.com/
http://www.medicinalherbfarm.com/
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