From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

I have gathered together the links to my eight essays on water.

Granulated Hypochlorinator is the stuff people use in pools. Only five ounces is enough to make bleach to purify minimal drinking water for an adult for a year. So, this stuff is quite efficient and compact. You can buy it at any pool or spa place, most garden centers and many hardware stores. Store it away from ammonia products such as window cleaner, because if they mix together they make the gas that's used instead of an electric chair. This is why you should run outside if you're in a grocery store at the time of an earthquake, since they usually store laundry bleach and window cleaner in the same isle.

For intestinal worms, I had one of my doctors prescribe Mebendazole for my homemade hospital in a box. We've never had tapeworms, but don't want to take chances. I hope that if we do we won't get them more than once! I'm also stocking PinX (active ingredient is pyrantel pamoate), an over the counter remedy targeted at pinworms (do not follow this link if you're easily grossed out). This is a condition supposedly found in approximately 20% of pre-schoolers at any given moment, and one we've suffered from in our home already.

I sincerely doubt that these medications would be effective against giardia, and I have never heard anyone say that they would be. I doubt that one could obtain prophylactic medication for giardia with the idea of keeping it in stock. (I could be wrong about that, since I haven't bothered trying). Maybe somebody else could fill us in on that. In a world with disrupted pharmaceutical distribution lines, it will be most crucial to avoid getting this disease. Therefore, extra special care should be taken to be absolutely sure that the water you drink is free of these intestinal parasites. Scrupulous filtering and treatment is mandatory.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), November 04, 1999

Answers

I asked the head of our pharmacy and the head of infectious disease in our hospital what they would use for various Y2K infections/parasites and they both said almost simultaneously Flagyl and Cipro and Pepto Bismol. The Bismith in the pepto is a heavy metal that kills all kinds of interesting "bugs" including the one that causes ulcers, and is 100% not absorbed by our gut.

-- Zeda (rickster@n-jcenter.com), November 04, 1999.

Here's a link that tells you of the drug Flagyl treating Giardiasis successfully. I believe I remember someone talking about Lambriar Vet that carries Fishy meds for Giardiasis.

beej

-- beej (beej@ppbbs.com), November 04, 1999.

Dancr,

Giardia is usually treated in the US with Flagyl, the nasty stuff that it is.

Treatment In most otherwise healthy individuals, Giardia is usually cleared without specific treatment in less than a month. For those with persistent symptoms or carriers, medical treatment is usually effective. In adults, Flagyl (metronidazole) is most effective in treating Giardia infections. The normal dose is 250mg four times a day for 7 days with an initial success rate of about 85%. You cannot drink any alcohol during Flagyl treatment. There are other antibiotics available.

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Metronidazole is available from veterinary sources, Jeffries, http://www. Jeffries. com (?) Valley Vet, http://www.valleyvet.com/ for those of you with large aquariums and a bunch of "sicky ichthys".

Flagyl, yuck. . . which is worse, the cure or the disease ?

-- urth (urthmomma @aohell.com), November 04, 1999.

urth-- you're quick like a bunny...grin. By the time I found the info. on the web you put it in here. If you put your cursor over the first name beej in my above message, it'll take you to a webpage with some info. of interest.

beej

-- beej (beej@ppbbs.com), November 04, 1999.

Totally off topic here: How do you make those clickable links!?

Anyone care to share?:-)

-- matt (whome@somewhere.nz), November 04, 1999.

matt,

Type the html command first,I always type this first, before adding the url address, to be sure it is correct. If I try to type the whole html command and the cut and paste at the same time, I usually mess it up. So first type this exactly:

Between the two "" (quotations), cut and paste, or type, the url address such as, for example:

http://www.mylink.com Is the url address, so it would look like this:

Next, the words you want to appear on the forum as the hot link go before the

So, if you want Great Link! to appear on the page:

Great Link!

Good luck!

-- Lilly (homesteader145@yahoo.com), November 05, 1999.

Matt,

Here's a sample html command written out.

(a href="http://www.schlomo.com/myfreakinpage.html")www.schlomo.com/myfre akinpage.html(/a href)

IMPORTANT STUFF: You have to replace the parentheses, in the above example, with the triangular brackets that are on the same key as the comma and period. If I had used those brackets, in the example, then the actual command would not have appeared, since those kinds of brackets instruct your browser that anything inside of those, are an html command and it should not display them. Anything that is between the two sets of braketed commands will be turned into a hyperlink. I could have just as well written "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood", or "I'd glady pay you tuesday, for a hamburger today", or just simply "Great Link" as Lilly did in the above example (Hi, Lilly!). Whatever is there, will work as a link. Whatever is inside the brackets, however, has to be EXACTLY the link url - no extra spaces and it does matter if it's upper or lower case.

The second set of brackets is the "link off" command. If you forget to use it...everything that follows will be a link, including the next poster, untill someone types in the "link off" command. This is what happens, when you see whole pages of colored underlined text(G).

Hope that's clear.

BTW, here's the other three common html commands you see used on this forum. Remember to replace the parentheses with traingular brackets:
(P) for paragraph breaks (That's how wordy posters like me, keep our stuff from getting all scrunched up into one big paragraph).
(i)word(/i), for italics
(b)word(/b) for bold.

Note that the paragraph break has no "off" command, but italics and bold does.

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), November 05, 1999.

My main concern is my elderly parents. A friend volunteered to pick up some meds for me in Mexico last summer. I figured it was my last opportunity to decide what I might need. I started researching on the 'net some of the obvious maladies, like amoebic dysentery and salmonella, and then checked what PDR (Physician's Desk Reference) had to say about the drugs (mostly so that I would know how much to order).

My conclusions: (1) There are a wide variety of problems which would take someone with the appropriate training and probably also clinical laboratory access to identify. (2) The problems I could realistically think of would have involved a significant expenditure of money to procure (even by Mexico standards), so I was likely to leave something critical out. (3) Some of the recommended meds (I think I recall Flagyl being one of them) were relatively toxic, especially to people in my parents' condition. (4) On my own, I have a distinct potential to misdiagnose the problem and administer a medicine that might be very much contraindicated. (That's inspite of having a substantially blind, retired pathologist for a father.) (5) The meds would therefore be of value only if a professional were available to confirm the diagnosis (but, of course, in that situation the meds would be a godsend and, I think, the best reason to have them on hand).

I settled on the following approach. Basic antibiotics (tetracycline and erythrocin); the much heralded Lite Salt electrolyte solution for dehydration; flu shots and pre-rollover doctors' visits for my parents; various first aid stuff, including antiseptics; and a commitment to scrupulous hygiene and quarantine. I'm in the 'burbs, and counting on being able to restrict my family's exposure to contagions. The food and water will be as wholesome as the effort we are willing to put into it.

Just a few thoughts, and not intended to discourage anyone from seeking medical solutions for what might be ahead.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), November 05, 1999.

Well, the reason the above looks like a mess, one cannot type a partial example of a hot link, and expect it to appear on the page, because html commands do not show, duh, which I will leave at that for now! Delete this mess, sysop, please, to save further confusion. :-)

matt,

See this thread, assuming I make the hot link correctly?!

What about a thread where we can practice HTML?

Within this thread is a post with links to other forum threads dealing with html commands, including hot links.

Another site, offering tutorials for learning html is located below. It is very easy to follow, and the author uses humor throughout:

HTML Goodies!

Good luck to ya!

-- Lilly (homesteader145@yahoo.com), November 05, 1999.

Bokonon has saved the day! I didn't remember the part about which key strokes to use to make the html command visable.

Well, I have met my "learn something new everyday" requirement, so now I can relax!

-- Lilly,,,who shouldn't post after 1:00 a.m. (homesteader145@yahoo.com), November 05, 1999.

Alot of garlic is suppose to be good to rid a person or animal from worms.At least thats what I had heard.

-- Maggie (aaa@aaa.com), November 05, 1999.

Thamks everyone for your kind assistance,I think I have it nailed now :-)

Year2000 New Zealand

-- matt (whome@somewhere.nz), November 05, 1999.