Antibiotics Post SHTF

[Jonas]

(19 September 2013, 09:22)bigpaul Wrote:

(19 September 2013, 09:15)Binnie Wrote: you normally get in excess of a year though, well on everything i've had it's been over a year "use by".

a year is a long time!

maybe it is if its something you use all the time, but something "just in case" could exceed its date before you use it, I have heard it could be dangerous to use any drug past its date as the properties change over time, I have asthma inhalers"just in case" and most get thrown out without ever having been used.

The only antibiotic that I know that you don't want to use after its expiration date is Tetracycline. It will get toxic with age. The others (penicillin, etc.) merely become weaker.

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(19 September 2013, 15:38)Mortblanc Wrote: Before 1945, after 2 million years of working with natural remedies, Pneumonia was the #1 killer in the U.S.

Now they give you a bottle of amoxicillin and send you home. In three days to a week you are back at work.

Herbal remedies are not the answer, they are something to give a person as you watch them die.

Actually, in current practice, pneumonia is treated with an IM injection of Rocephin, usually daily for about a week.

For virii like influenza, antibiotics won't do anything. However, tincture of black elderberry (1 tsp q 4hrs) works quite well. If you're dealing with an open sore (leg ulcer, bed sore, cast sore, etc.), then granulated white sugar mixed with provodine iodine solution into a thick paste and applied to the wound works well too.

Score 2 for the herbal medicine folks!