And dosing. A long time ago I made the mistake of letting an herbal calming tea steep for too long. As a result, several ingredients in it were a lot stronger than they should have been. (I have a tendency to long steep teas.) I only got a few sips but woke up the next morning, in bed, bent in half over the pile of books I had been reviewing. I didn't remember getting tired. My body did not shift to a reclining position. I just flat out crashed.
I gather you are referring to Survival and Austere Medicine, 3rd Edition, of which Reasonable Rascal is one of the authors. I can't answer about the binding for his book. We printed our copies at my husband's office and used a comb binding machine (I think that's what it's called) to put them together. I believe places like Office Max can take the edges off a book and put spiral or comb binders on, but I've never checked into anything like that myself.
I was only referring to older folks. But yes, Benadryl also may be contraindicated for asthmatics.
Thank you. I wasn't specifically referring to the great book S&AM, but you bring up a good point about it that makes it very useful as well.
Just so you are clear, there are no pictures in the book written by school marm. It's also available in paperback or kindle only.
Now that's a critical piece of information which I clearly didn't understand, thank you.
I'm sorry if any of my posts were confusing. The book I wrote doesn't have any images at all and is not available in color. There would be no point to it. And we didn't print it ourselves. And my book isn't all that expensive at $14.99 for print and $4.19 for Kindle.
You have this confused with reasonable rascals book severe and austere medicine which can be purchased in paper or hard back with b&w or color pictures.
It does, school marm, thank you for clearing up my confusion. Somehow I obviously had gotten the two books mixed up in my mind. You're right in that your extensive work is definitely a reasonable price and a good bargain.
IIRC, she also stated that you could look at the blog posts she made that covered material in her book and find more information there.
It certainly is (much more, and RR readily admits it, to his credit), and from the Kindle version, I can see where it's a necessary library addition just as school marm's is. The color version is so darned expensive but is a good helper for tired (and stressed when it's time to implement) old eyes.
www.lulu.com
Thanks for the update, RR. Much appreciated.
Me too!
Hi Quiet Man, I don't know how I missed your post. I apologize for not replying sooner.
Thank you, School Marm, for the thoughtful reply.
You know, those questions are beyond my level of understanding. I focus more on the supplies to have on hand. And as I wrote in the article, this DIY injectable lidocaine should only be made under the direction of a physician. My guess--and it is just a guess--is that the injectable water, depending on how far it is out of date and how it was stored, may be preferable to trying to DIY sterile water.Thank you, School Marm, for the thoughtful reply.
I do have Rocephin with sterile water on hand, which covers me for a while.
I've pretty much decided to use distilled water in a pressure cooker if the water goes out of date and cannot be replaced. My main concern about making-up Lidocaine solution is that the powder itself is almost certainly not sterile. Can I sterilize the water, add the Lidocaine and place the mixture in a sealed (borosilicate) vial and recook it? Does that damage the Lidocaine?
It seems like recooking will pop the vial top. I could probably leave the top loose, and then add-back sterile water to restore the correct volume.
