Zer0 said:
Also some other things to consider. Have antibacterial soap, wet wipes, toilet paper on hand. Plenty of it!! Buy fish antibiotics and learn what antibiotics treat what and proper dosages to administer. There are you tube videos that discuss this to some length. Also plenty of bleach and garbage bags for waste and sanitation. Also stock up on ammo and bartering items. Remember, medicine will be like gold! Do not let anyone know you have antibiotics you will be killed off quickly! There is a video on you tube that tells the story of a man and his family surviving in Serbia during the war. It is very telling and in depth what lengths people will do to survive and preserve their own families.
Here is a chart that might be useful when choosing an antibiotic.
http://www.microbiologynutsandbolts.co.uk/uploads/7/8/9/4/7894682/4492443_orig.jpg
(Most antibiotics have two names. Generic names (the name of the compound) and sale-name. Equal to "a cola" and Coca cola. The table is generic.)
It is styled by type of bacteria, rather than disease, so a quick clarification might be needed. Im including the major players who by name is not self explanatory.
Staphylococcus (Aureus): skin bacteria that sometimes cause problems. Will produce skin infections of non-inflitration types. Will form abcesses (must be drained as antibiotics do not penetrate them. If noting else, puncture them).
Streptococcus: throat infections and skin infections that are infiltrating. Erysipelas.
Enterococcus: Usually urinary tract infections. Can spread to blood and brain. Present in the human gut, and infections might get rampant in a breakdown of brownwater systems.
Streptococcus pneumoniae: You can guess, cant you?
Listeria: usually not a problem, but as you might be immunocomprimized as you are applying this chart, it is good to know that Listeria dwells in contaminated food and can cause problems all thorugh your corpus.
Haemophilus influenzae: airways and meningitis, in kids more than in adults.
E. Coli will be everywhere after sanitary systems are out of service. E coli UVIs in women are not uncommon. High virulent e.coli strains will cause serious "food poisoning" and even sepsis. Toxins can cause kidney damage. If your "flaming out of both ends", it might be e.coli.
Mycoplasma "Atypical" (lov virulent) pneumonia.
Vibrio cholerae. Not in list. Use tetracycline or doxycycline, but rehydration is what save lives here.
If its less than 5 years since your last tetanus shot, you would need one.
Now, if we want to make this into a tutorial, what we now need to know are dosages and which antibiotics can be combined and which can not.
If we want to boil it down to the simplest possible:
Penicilline: Still good against alot of infections. Cheap and simple. Try it out. Patient should improve in hrs.
Vancomycin: strep and staph when penicillin fails
Cefotaxime: borad spectrum and will be effective against most airway and urinary infections.
Tetracycline: broad spectrum against everything else. (Do not combine with penicilline, vancomycin or cefotaxime).