First Aid - Sea Sickness & Sea Injury
SEA SICKNESS:
1) Keeping busy will help prevent sea-sickness. Try as much as possible to
stay lay down.
2) If you have sea-sickness don't eat nor drink, Stay immobile, try to relax
& keep as warm as possible. If you have any, take or give them. Dalamine
is the best sea sick pill.
LIMBS AFFECTED BY A LONG TIME IN WATER:
1) Feet & legs get affected by long time in cold water. Signs are discolouration
of skin & pains. In advance cases, the affected part swells & skin
covers itself of blisters mix with black pimples.
2) You can avoid evolution of the problem by keeping the affected limb as
dry & as warm as possible, to help you do this: keep the raft floor as
dry as possible. If you wear shoes which are too tight, you MUST take them
off.
3) Move your feet & toes to help blood circulation, but don't give any
massage. Keep warm & dry as much as possible. Lift your feet from the
raft bottom if there is water which you cant remove.
4) Constipation or urine retention. None of those problems should worry you,
because they are normal being caused by lack of food, inactivity, lack of
soft water.
SEA HYPOTHERMIA & TRICK!:
Swimmers used to cold water have an old trick to get back their lost heat
due to cold water which is to run as soon as they land and dry up a bit, so
that their own body generates its own heat.
#AULNES# : *
To check but it seems that leaves from #aulnes# which are twisted and put
on a wound will prevent #suppuration# to start.
