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- Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:17 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Sutures
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5512
Re: Sutures
As a possibility run a culture test in them for a few weeks and see what grows. If they don't grow anything too dangerous try a litmus test to test for hazardous material If they are all clean sonic bath them and use them. So long as packages area sealed with heat then they should remain sterile. S...
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 11:04 am
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Sutures
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5512
Re: Sutures
Self explanatory really, they don't meet the criteria for use on a human. Perhaps they are not sufficiently sterilised (if at all). Perhaps they are out of date or damaged. Perhaps they are sterilised in a substance which is known or potentially harmful (or carcinogenic most often) Perhaps the sourc...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 3:12 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Escargo by Monday!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4064
Re: Escargo by Monday!
Sorry for the delay fellow preppers! Indeed it ended up being Escargot (or there abouts by Friday) instead. Here's the final product: http://i.imgur.com/YpReeOD.jpg and an album of along the way shots: http://imgur.com/a/vCROB Process is simple, purge them a few days, feed them carrots to show the p...
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 10:12 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Escargo by Monday!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4064
Re: Escargo by Monday!
Will let you know how they turn out! The humble garden variety snail is in deed the edible kind there are some protected species in the uk tho so just be careful of that. My rule is if they survive three days they are good to eat! You can Google how to identify ones that are not protected under UK l...
- Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:06 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: using what food comes your way.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2555
Re: using what food comes your way.
They wont even eat bananas?
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 5:36 pm
- Forum: Welcome
- Topic: Delete Account Please.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13833
Re: Delete Account Please.
Why the drama, you could always just never log back in?
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 5:28 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Preparing for dental issues
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5192
Re: Preparing for dental issues
Just stock up on ibuprofen? I mean before we had easy access to buckets of simple sugars did we even have dental issues? I've never had a filling and barely make it to the dentist once every 5 years. Stay off the candy and eat plenty of fibrious veg and you teeth will clean themselves! Only thing I ...
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 5:25 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Escargo by Monday!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4064
Escargo by Monday!
Hope you all are taking advantage of this perfect gathers weather! We produce far more greens for the compost than we could use so we have a heap near the composter container. Snails of course love the stuff especially in wet weather, nothing can get my tummy rumbling like realise it's going to be j...
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:53 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Things that can be sown now for winter.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2413
Re: Things that can be sown now for winter.
http://www.territorialseed.com/product/ ... pring_2015
save your self some soil and time with this marvel of science.
save your self some soil and time with this marvel of science.
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:03 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Anti-Biotics
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8096
Re: Anti-Biotics
Semi-related, I think acetic acid ear drops or spray are a must if you're going in unpleasant waters.
Basically vinegar to make your ears less hospitable.
Basically vinegar to make your ears less hospitable.