Stockpiling Antibiotics

[Scarecrow]

Found a good article on stockpiling antibiotics over on SurvivalBlog. If you aren't able to get your doctor to write you a prescription for stockpiling purposes, then you can purchase aquarium antibiotics which are identical to the stuff at the pharmacy, require no prescription and are cheaper as well. The article also addresses the shelf life of medications.
http://www.survivalblog.com/2010/07/a_d ... ibiot.html

Small amounts of medications such as antibiotics could be procured by anyone who is willing to tell their physician that they are going out of the country and would like to avoid “Montezuma’s Revenge”. Ask them for Tamiflu for viral illness and Z-packs, Amoxicillin or Keflex for bacterial diarrhea. Stockpiling of these antibiotics is more of a problem. After searching far and wide, I have come across the best option for the prepper: Aquarium Fish antibiotics.

For evaluation purposes (and because I am an aquarium hobbyist), I decided to purchase online a variety of these products and found them to be identical (unlike some Dog and Cat medications) to those used to treat humans with a doctor’s prescription. I was able to purchase them without any demand for medical licensure, etc. The drugs are listed below and the bottles list the antibiotic as the sole ingredient. They are:

* FISH-MOX (amoxicillin 250mg)
* FISH_MOX FORTE (amoxicillin 500mg)
* FISH-CILLIN (ampicillin 250mg)
* FISH-FLEX Keflex 250mg)
* FISH-FLEX FORTE (Keflex 500mg)
* FISH-ZOLE (metronidazole 250mg)
* FISH-PEN (penicillin 250mg)
* FISH-PEN FORTE (penicillin 500mg)
* FISH-CYCLINE (tetracycline 250mg)

These medications are available usually in plastic bottles of 100 tablets for much less than the same prescription medication at the pharmacy (some come in bottles of 30 tablets). The dosages are similar to that used in humans, and are taken two to four times a day, depending on the drug. The 500mg dosage is probably more effective in larger individuals. Of course, anyone could be allergic to one or another of these antibiotics, but not all of them. (Note that there is a 10% cross-reactivity between "-cillin" drugs and Keflex, meaning that, if you are allergic to Penicillin, you could also be allergic to Keflex). FISH-ZOLE is an antibiotic that also kills some protozoa that cause dysentery.

NOTE: It should be emphasized that FISH-CYCLINE [and other tetracycline antibiotics of various names] can become toxic after its expiration date, unlike most of the other medications listed. So consider acquiring the other ones listed, first.

[singyourwayhome]

Thank you, thank you! I grew up in a town hours from any doctor, and our family had recurring Strep- the Dr gave us 'reserve' antibiotics back then, but mine won't, now. I've wondered about getting some.
Later in the article you referred to he addresses expiration dates and what they really mean. Good reading.

[serenitylala]

The only problem with this is that most insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies refuse to give a patient more than one month's supply of medications, even in despite a physician giving a 6 month or more prescription.

The interesting thing is that some medications have a relatively short shelf-life and others have a much longer shelf-life.

For example, Tetracyclines need to thrown away within a few months of their expiration date due to the fact that they break down into harmful metabolites.

At the same time, Erythromycin, another antibiotic has a very long shelf life and can be used for a good couple years even after it has supposedly "expired." The only thing is that it may cause Rx-induced GI upset.

Nitro is another drug that has a really short shelf-life. Turns into powder at the drop of a hat. But aspirin lasts much longer. Both help prevent heart attacks.

So it is important to understand the nature and actual shelf life of the drugs that you purchase. Because you could spend a fortune on a particular antibiotic and it can practically go to waste in less than a year post-expiration date.

Treat them like food. Some foods hold longer than others, find out which ones will last and which ones won't. Keep the peanut butter and throw out the mayo.

In addition to that, certain antibiotics don't work for certain bacterial conditions. I posted a series of posts here that describe the different uses and side effects of most antibiotics that should help:

http://www.ldsfreedomforum.com/viewtopi ... ic#p122796

[Note: Good antibiotics to have on hand would be augmentin (if you're not allergic to penicillin), erythromycin, and ciprofloxacin ( or levofloxacin)].

Anyway, here are some helpful sites:

Here is the University of Maryland Medical Center's site on complementary and alternative medicine:

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/

One, it is probably one of the most scientific single sites on alternative medicines out there. And two, it breaks the treatments down by side effects, as well as by disease/condition.

Also, if you are interested in purchasing medications online, the following is some information that I have come across in my own research... and I wrote on a different site:

The problem with purchasing medications overseas is that you lose the regulation that the FDA has to offer.

For instance, there has been much evidence indicating that many of these companies are selling counterfeit products: You purchase an antibiotic but instead you get sheet rock in a pill form. Good for the walls of your house, but bad for the body.

In addition there is the possibility of getting a substandard medicine, which is the genuine medicine but manufactured at substandard levels, even by legitimate companies. These medications do not meet the appropriate quality specifications, therefore rendering them harmful.

On the other hand, there are reputable companies out there that provide good quality pharmaceuticals.

So how do we decipher which ones are good and which ones are bad:

Write Santa and ask him to check them for us? Call a psychic phone line and pay the 4.99 per minute? Or we can always do a little investigative work ourselves.

Studies have shown that if you can find an actual address on the website then the manufacturer is legitimate. Sad is that you have to take the address and check it on something like google-earth or another site.

For the lazy people like me, God blessed us with a bunch of sites that have already done most of the work. The World Health Organization (WHO) is one of them:

The WHO is involved in monitoring medical manufacturers, sending many through a pre-qualification process designed to make "quality priority medicines available for the benefit of those in need."
http://apps.who.int/prequal/

They also provide a list of pre-qualified medicines and an application for you to check the quality of most manufacturers worldwide.

Also, here is a site which can help you find quality medicines:

http://drugbuyers.com/

The following are a list of sites that will help you track counterfeit drugs:

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm170314.htm

http://www.who.int/impact/en/

http://www.ema.europa.eu/Inspections/Counterfeits.html

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2005/Janu ... iv_025.htm

I hope this helps

[litieulong48]

why don't you try to use ampicillin or augmentin for treatment? i have successed.
you could find it's infomation on gg. or you could buy it with cheapest in here: https://storeviet.com/
good luck friend

[eddie]

Keep your meds in the refrigerator, their shelf life is much
Longer