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Advice for Planning for an Avian / Bird Flu Pandemic

Make a full First Aid Kit

The reason you want a first aid kit is obvious and every home should have one as a matter of course.

Include:

• Adhesive bandages various sizes
• Sterile dressings - to stop bleeding.
• Gauze bandages
• Triangular bandages
• Sterile gauze pads
• Cohesive bandages
  
• Germicidal hand wipe or hand sanitiser
• Antiseptic wipes
• Two pairs of latex or other sterile gloves as dictated by allergies
• Adhesive tape
• Anti-bacterial ointment
• Scissors
• Tweezers
• Painkillers including for babies and children
• Anti diarrhoea drugs
• Antacids
• Laxatives

It is also a good idea to stock up any prescription drugs that may be needed during a period of Pandemic.

Ensure that you have an appropriately kitted toolkit

Include:

• Battery or preferably clockwork radio
• Battery or preferably clockwork torch
• Spare batteries if clockwork not available
• Non electric can opener or utility knife
• Fire Extinguisher
• Pliers
• Tape
• Plastic storage containers
• Aluminium foil
• Paper and pencils
• Needles and thread
• Medicine dropper
• Wrench
• Whistle
• Plastic sheeting - can be used for collecting rain water.
• Water storage container: 1 gallon per person, per day for drinking.

Ensure you have proper sanitation and sterilisation facilities in stock

Include:

• Toilet paper, towelettes
• Soap, liquid detergent
• Feminine supplies
• Personal hygiene items
• Plastic rubbish bags, ties (for personal sanitation uses)
• Plastic bucket with a tight lid
• Disinfectant
• Nappies for babies and nappy sacks
• Adequate quantities of cotton wool or wipes.
• Household Chlorine bleach (unscented)
• Basin large enough to stand in to allow disinfecting of shoes before entry into the home.
• Hand wash left at the door to ensure hand washing before entry into the home.

Ensure you have a suitable water supply

How do you collect and keep water sterile? Collecting rainwater is one way of ensuring an adequate supply of water. Another is to empty the various tanks within the home. Finally there might be a need to use non-sterile water. Here are two ways to purify water.

Boiling is the safest method of purifying water, boiling for 3-5 minutes and then cooling before drinking. Boiled and stored water tastes better if the oxygen level is restored. This is achieved by pouring the water back and forth between two containers.

Disinfection is the second method - using household bleach (not scented, colour safe or bleaches with added cleaners) check that it contains 5.25% sodium hypochlorite. Add 16 drops of bleach per gallon of water stir and let stand for 30 minutes. If the water does not have a slight bleach odour, repeat the dosage and let stand for another 15 minutes.

Ensure you have adequate stocks of long life food

Store foods that are non perishable; select foods that don't need refrigeration, preparing or cooking and require little or no water.

Include:

• Baby formula
• Powdered milk
• Canned meats, fruits and vegetables.
• Canned juices
• Staples (salt, sugar, pepper, spices etc)
• High energy foods
• Vitamins
• Childrens foods
• Comfort foods/ Chocolate etc

The lists supplied above have been taken from The American Redcross Disaster Supplies Kit , "The American Red Cross Food and Water in an Emergency" and Get A Kit from Ready America.

All information supplied here is done so freely and Adveticus Limited takes no responsibility for the outcome if any or all of this advice is taken. All advice used from these pages is at your own risk.