First Aid Kits

Essentials For Your First Aid Kit

Every home should have a first aid kit and it’s also a good idea to carry one in your car. And if you’re off to the beach or going camping for a few days you should definitely take one with you. But what are the absolute essentials of any first aid kit? Here are just a handful of essential items that every first aid kit should carry

1. Antiseptic or antibiotic (either cream or liquid) such as TCP or Germolene. This is what you need for cuts and grazes to prevent infection. Many of todays antiseptics contain soothing pain relief which is excellent for young children.

2. Sticking plasters. Essential for small cuts and grazes. If you have young children you might like to use some fun sticking plasters with images printed on them.

3. Gauze dressing pads, sterile. Necessary for cleaning wounds and applying ointment.

4. Bandages in various shapes and sizes. Be sure to include some safety pins. Don’t go over the top and fill your first aid kit with every available size and shape of bandage. If you consider that most common injuries occur to the hands, fingers, wrists and knees this should tell you what sizes of bandages you need in your kit.

5. Scissors. Necessary for cutting bandages and gauze. Also necessary for cutting clothing to get at a nasty injury.

6. Tweezers. Splinters can be a very common form of minor injury. Needed to remove splinters.

7. Pain Killers. Commonly called analgesics. Be certain that your first aid kit contains some pain killers and that the pain killers you choose are suitable for your family.

8. Insect bite and sting relief. (Antihistamine cream). Some bite and sting relief is good for any first aid kit.

9. Eye bath and eye wash. What you need to flush foreign objects from someones eye.

10. Hot and cold packs. These packs are great for reducing swelling and helping to relieve joint pain.

While I’ve tried to boil things down to the essentials you may also like to consider adding some sterile latex gloves, some adhesive tape, some smelling salts along with important telephone numbers.

A first aid kit for outdoor use might be augmented with a flashlight along with a reflective survival blanket.

I hope that these suggestions will help you to pack a genuinely useful first aid kit that you know is available when you need it.

You might also like to consider going on a First aid course in order to be sure that you know what to do in the even of an emergency.

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When you are packing for a camping trip a first aid kit is a key piece of camping equipment Also, always take the right outdoor clothing for the conditions you will meet.

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