Health Prep for a Hurricane: Here’s How to Be Ready
You’ve got your water, canned foods, batteries, and other items ready for hurricane season—how about health supplies?
If a hurricane comes and there’s someone you’re with who has special health needs, you’ll
want to have on hand anything they may need to keep up with their health routine. Even without special health needs, anyone who is sheltering in place or traveling to another location due to a hurricane will need some basic health supplies, like adhesive bandages or pain-relieving medication.
Here’s a list of health care supplies to have on hand for routine hurricane prep, followed by supplies and suggestions that pertain to someone with special health needs/chronic health conditions.
Health-related supplies for your hurricane prep:
- A week’s supply of common over-the-counter medications your family uses, such as pain relievers
- First-aid items like adhesive bandages, antibiotic ointment, and gauze. Even better, buy a first-aid kit.
- Face masks. Nowadays, these can double as protection against the coronavirus and if there’s dust in an area.
- Hand sanitizer
Health-related supplies for hurricane prep for someone with a chronic health condition:
- A week or more supply of prescription medication.
- Batteries or a generator for any medical equipment that needs electricity, such as oxygen
- A list of current doctors with phone numbers and a list of medications used
- Extra eyeglasses
Some final health-related hurricane prep tips:
1. To ensure you have enough medication in the event of a hurricane, ask the prescribing doctor in advance for an extra 30-day supply to have on hand in case of a hurricane.
2. Ask your loved one’s doctor about any special concerns if a hurricane were to reach the area, preventing travel or wiping out electricity.
3. If you must travel to another location to shelter in place, find out in advance where the closest hospital is located.
4. Let everyone you are with know where hurricane-health supplies are.
5. If you have a loved one living in a care facility, find out in advance what their hurricane management plan is. Review it and follow up with any questions.
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