Preparedness for when

Dippypud

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

DisreputableDog welcome :wave:

My doctor has always told me better out than in when I have had a runny tum, because that is natures way of ridding your body of the bacteria/toxin that has caused the problem, so I always keep a good store of dioralyte in the house or if I run out I make my own with salt and sugar in equal measure, but I will have to ask if that is still safe as I have just been diagnosed with diabetes.

Sorry, to be reading and playing catch-up

but I have to say that the salt/sugar is not to be taken in equal measure ...

http://rehydrate.org/solutions/homemade.htm

Preparing 1 (one) Litre solution using Salt, Sugar and Water at Home

Mix an oral rehydration solution using the following recipe.

Ingredients:

• Six (6) level teaspoons of Sugar
  
• Half (1/2) level teaspoon of Salt
  
• One Litre of clean drinking or boiled water and then cooled - 5 cupfuls (each cup about 200 ml.)

Preparation Method:

• Stir the mixture till the salt and sugar dissolve.

and the proportions are different for children ...

Give the child a drink made with 6 level teaspoons of sugar and 1/2 level teaspoon of salt dissolved in 1 litre of clean water.

Be very careful to mix the correct amounts. Too much sugar can make the diarrhoea worse. Too much salt can be extremely harmful to the child.

Making the mixture a little too diluted (with more than 1 litre of clean water) is not harmful.

I hope this helps ...

lillibet_dripping

2Tonsils - as you are 'closer to the action' as it were, I would appreciate some advice.

A colleague of mine's daughter (along with 24 members of the family/wedding party) is flying to Cyprus on Sunday and getting married at some point during next week (not to a Cypriot)

I know for a fact that she is not a prepper nor of the prepping persuasion. Any advice I can quietly whisper in her ear?

I'm assuming travellers cheques will not be a good idea?

Will the hotels be operating a sort of normal service? Will her wedding meal still be served?

Or do you think she will be OK?

Many thanks (and also for the weather updates!!)
Lilli

pineapple

artichoke wrote: »

hi all

i want to join you all on here as you are talking my kind of language...

You have to swear the Batty Oath of Allegiance first, then there's the
requirement to have at least one case of baked beans and 6 million toilet rolls in your preps... Oh and the secret handshake.... :rotfl:

pineapple

or words to that effect has to be the Quote of the Day. Of course this just applies to the Eurozone and we can safely ignore it . Or maybe not.
Take note and prep accordingly!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/25/eurozone-crisis-cyprus-bailout-deal-agreed

GreyQueen

southantrim3 wrote: »

In addition, if they manage to digitalise money, then we no longer have access to our own hard cash at all and they will be able to skim from it as and when required.

Does any of this ring true - or am I just a major cynic.....:(

If you're a cynic, then I am, too. I've long been concerned about the prospect of the disappearance of cash and its replacement with a kind of electronic purse.

Yeah, great idea. So TPTB know exactly what you're doing at all times. Making a few bob at the bootsale selling your old tott? Gotta record that for the tax man. Buying excessive amounts of tinned foods, hexamine tabs and water purification tabs? Aha, that's the profile of a prepper. Better note their address for a little appropriation of goods when trouble comes.

I've always liked cash. Not because I'm doing anything criminal, but because I don't need to have the world and it's wife knowing where I am and what I'm doing. If I'm in another part of the country, my purchases are all cash, which I brought with me, nothing on the debit card or ATM to show where I've been. But I've always been a little bit tinhat (in the nicest possible way ).

pineapple wrote: »

You have to swear the Batty Oath of Allegiance first, then there's the
requirement to have at least one case of baked beans and 6 million toilet rolls in your preps... Oh and the secret handshake.... :rotfl:

:eek: There's a secret handshake?! Why wasn't I told? Or *wobbles lip and feels pitiful* does that mean that I'm not allowed to play?

I'm pleased to say that my Kelly Kettle has arrived. It hasn't arrived here but I'll get it on Saturday. Big excitement. I had it delivered to the parents' place as I'm out and they're not but I have a sneaky suspicion that when I demonstrate it's fabulousness in action, Mum will be ordering herself one very soon after. Almost everyone who sees one used has this reaction in my experience.

We're Dahn Sarf and we haven't got much snow but the current situation has led rise to some interesting mother-daughter convos re emergency preparedness, initiated by her. I'm gobsmacked. She never reads post-apocalyptic fiction or watches stuff with zombies either, so the zeitgeist must be bringing back fun memories of family life in the seventies.

She knows I'm sleeping on more tins than a small supermarket and hasn't felt the urge to stock up, despite captaining a 3-adult household but she does have lots of loo roll and soap and plenty of torches inc windup ones.

I am planning to start a covert stashette of candles and matches in her home, to be drawn upon by them in a crisis. Half a box of Price's Household Candles from the last big round of powercuts in the 1970s won't last them long.

I had a Bad Thought the other day, caused by the parts of After Light describing their foraging trips onto the mainland. If you wanted candles, there are sillier places to go looking for them than in a church..............I know, I know, I'll go straight to hell for even thinking about it.:rotfl:

Right, time to go and break into one of the custard sachets from the stash. Need to have some cake and custard to stave off the cold.

Keep warm and keep well and stay indoors whenever possible, it's bitter oot there.

maryb

He's rowing back hard from that statement - taken out of context etc etc

Meanwhile Nigel Farage is urging people to take their money out of Spanish and Italian banks. Expats wouldn't be enough to cause a bank run in those countries but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of local people were deciding they like their mattresses lumpy

maryb

LOL GQ, yes you IS bad.

But a lot of churches of the candle lighting variety haven't got a lot of money so they don't have huge stocks - the candles are extinguished pronto and made to last.

An Italian trattoria probably has more candles on the premises

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

He's rowing back hard from that statement - taken out of context etc etc

Meanwhile Nigel Farage is urging people to take their money out of Spanish and Italian banks. Expats wouldn't be enough to cause a bank run in those countries but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of local people were deciding they like their mattresses lumpy

:mad: My a--- as a certain sitcom character would have it. I just bet he's rowing back from it, in public at least.

I saw that earlier and thought that the commentator on Ferfal's blogpost about this issue had it bang to rights; if politicians weren't swinging on lamp posts soon, they'd all be wanting to do it. I wouldn't be surprised if the manufacture and retail of domestic safes saw a sharp uptick in the near future.

ETA ; thanks, maryb, it's noted. I've long been watching the likes of Survivors (original version) and reading stuff and the sheer randomness of the looting is a bit unprofessional, IMO. What's wrong with getting a Yeller Pages and and OS Map/ A-Z and going about things systematically? Honestly, it's a shame my health problems would see me dead for want of meds in a prolonged SHTF situation. I have so much to giiiiiivvve. Or even take.

missrlr

Just to let people here know, as one who uses such items in a professional capacity and fights with stock rotation on a regular basis.

Antiseptic stuff in sealed containers or liquid solutions do lose their potency once the expiry date is past. For instance wipes in individual sachets will lose their potency to the point where there is no effective amount of "stuff" left so when you use them it don't work.

If you have the opportunity to use them e.g. Cleaning bathroom, kitchen whatever it could make use of a product instead of chucking it.

Regarding other meds, I would STRONGLY recommend paying caution to expiry dates. These things have been tested and it may look ok but some of the ingredients can go quite peculiar. Expiry dates are designed for the maximum stock life so they don't skimp on them!

Stuff like iodine crystals are ok, hygroscopic so might be a bit less potent or gooey but generally as not diluted are a bit more robust.

Someone mentioned Arran .... Friend who lives the managed to get in touch, there are no fuel stations on Arran, you have to go to the mainland to get fuel so could be a bit more of an issue. Lots will have fires put back in now!

Greying_Pilgrim

The sun is over the yard arm and as GQ has already mentioned custard..... could I just say, MrsLurcherwalker if you is in da house, could you please stand up and take a bow...... I'm pretty sure that it was on this thread a couple of weeks ago that you posted a recipe for 'austerity custard' (it wasn't called that, but you didn't need 6 dozen organic free range eggs and a pint of Guernsey cream to make it either a la Hes ton). You may be interested to know that I made custard to your recipe this evening and it was pronounced 'delish' by my DP who is practised in the dark arts of tackling head-on puddings with custard.....

So ta very much for sharing the recipe. I now feel I can stick two digits up to yo-yoing prices of value/basics/savers ranges everywhere and still have something to wrap around HM steamed syrup sponge

Greying