Articles about Medical

Asthma and COPD Preparedness

Planning guidance for keeping asthma and COPD care steady during disruptions: the inhaler buffer and safe storage, backup power for nebulizers and oxygen, and protecting your breathing during wildfire smoke and other air-quality events.

Build a Household Medical Profile

How to build a household medical profile before an emergency. A step-by-step guide to documenting diagnoses, medications, devices, insurance, and legal documents in one place.

Building a Medication List

Planning guidance for building a household medication list: what to record for every prescription, over-the-counter medicine, vitamin, and supplement, where to keep copies, and how to keep it current.

Chronic Condition Preparedness

Emergency planning for ongoing health needs, diabetes, heart disease, COPD, kidney disease, seizure disorders, pregnancy, and dementia. Planning guidance, not clinical advice.

Dementia and Cognitive Care Preparedness

Planning guidance for caregivers keeping dementia care steady during disruptions: a backup chain of caregivers, protecting the familiar routine, managing medication for someone who cannot self-manage, and safe relocation and wandering safeguards.

Diabetes Preparedness

Planning guidance for keeping diabetes care steady during disruptions: the supply buffer, insulin storage when the power is out, glucose monitoring, documents that travel with you, and where to turn for emergency insulin.

Dialysis and Kidney Disease Preparedness

Planning guidance for keeping dialysis care continuous during a disruption: identifying a second center, knowing your center's emergency plan, backup power and water for home dialysis, the emergency diet, and the records you carry.

Emergency Medical Documents

What medical documents to keep, where to keep them, and how to build a grab-and-go medical folder. Print vs. digital, the waterproof pouch, and a maintenance schedule.

Expired Medication: What the Date Means and What to Do

What a medication expiration date actually measures, why FDA guidance says not to use expired medicine, and the two habits that keep a household from relying on old supply.

Heart Disease and Blood Pressure Preparedness

Planning guidance for keeping cardiac and blood pressure care steady during disruptions: the medication buffer, nitroglycerin storage, low-sodium emergency food, heat and exertion awareness, and the records emergency responders need.

Hygiene During Emergencies

Emergency hygiene as illness prevention, handwashing when water is limited, personal hygiene without normal access, waste disposal, shelter hygiene, and vulnerable populations.

Medical 72-Hour Bag Without First Aid

What goes in a household medical 72-hour bag beyond the first aid kit, prescriptions, documentation, monitoring supplies, device accessories, and personal medical items. Five-category packing guide.

Medical Crisis: The First 30 Days

A serious diagnosis, an injury, or a hospitalization just changed everything. Here is what to do about work, insurance, hospital bills, and the household while you focus on treatment and recovery.

Medical Devices and Power Outages

Power planning for CPAP, oxygen concentrators, nebulizers, powered wheelchairs, and other medical equipment. Backup batteries, generators, utility programs, and when to relocate.

Medical Diets During Emergencies

Emergency food planning for medical diets, diabetes, low-sodium, renal, food allergies, celiac, tube feeding, and texture-modified diets when standard emergency food doesn

Medical Preparedness

Planning guidance for maintaining medications, medical devices, records, and healthcare access during disruptions. Not medical advice, preparedness planning for every household.

Medical Preparedness for Children

Emergency medical preparedness for families with children and infants. Pediatric medications, formula supply, consent forms, school connections, and children with special healthcare needs.

Medical Preparedness for Older Adults

Emergency preparedness for older adults and their caregivers. Medications, mobility, hearing aids, temperature vulnerability, caregiver backup chains, and the household medical profile.

Mental Health During Disruptions

Psychiatric medication continuity during emergencies, maintaining access to mental health medications, controlled substance planning, counseling continuity, and recovery support.

Pregnancy Preparedness

Planning guidance for staying prepared through pregnancy: knowing where you will deliver if your hospital closes, carrying your prenatal records, a prenatal medication supply, and the heat and air-quality planning that matters more when you are expecting.

Prescription Preparedness

How to maintain prescription access during emergencies. The 30-day buffer, generic names, emergency dispensing laws, and what to ask your doctor and pharmacist before storm season.

Refrigerated Medications During a Power Outage

Seizure Disorder Preparedness

Planning guidance for keeping seizure care steady during disruptions: the medication buffer and unbroken schedule, storing rescue medication, the written caregiver plan and when to call 911, and driving and evacuation planning.

Adventure Medical Kits .7 Review

A pre-stocked first-aid kit for two adults, sized for multi-day use. Here

Dental Kits: The Definitive Buyer's Handbook

A sourced buyer's handbook for emergency dental kits: what temporary filling material and dental wax can and cannot do, the FDA's warnings on benzocaine numbing gels, how to handle a knocked-out tooth, and why no kit treats an infection.

Emergency Hygiene Supplies: The Definitive Buyer's Handbook

A sourced buyer's handbook for emergency hygiene supplies: why the CDC ranks soap and water ahead of hand sanitizer, what to read on a sanitizer label, how to wash with stored water, and how to build a two-week hygiene supply.

First Aid Kits: The Definitive Buyer's Handbook

A sourced buyer's handbook for household first aid kits: the Red Cross recommended contents, what ANSI classes mean, what prebuilt kits leave out, why a first aid kit is not a bleeding control kit, and how to match a kit to your household.

Health & Medical Books

The best books for household medical preparedness, field medicine, wilderness first aid, and emergency care when professional help is far away. Buy a copy, or find it at your local library.

Medicine for the Outdoors

Paul Auerbach

NOLS Wilderness Medicine

The official NOLS course textbook for wilderness medicine, how to assess, treat, and stabilize when professional care is hours away. Why we recommend it, what readers say, and how to buy or borrow it

The Survival Medicine Handbook

Joseph and Amy Alton