Sunday, October 30, 2005
What’s In Your First aid Kit?
As I was pulling off the bandage on my right big toe, in the shower where I stepped before remembering it, I was thinking about the need to update and improve my first aid kit. Thus a feedback/discussion post was inspired. Comment away please.
Years ago, I bought a premade Johnson & Johnson “Camping First Aid Kit.” At the time, I was going camping for 11 days, driving to a family reunion in PEI, then driving around Nova Scotia. One grandfather was born in Northam, PEI and the other in Kentville, NS.
The kit remains, less some expired stuff I’ve tossed. It includes an instant cold pack, light stick, latex gloves, tweezers, scissors, adhesive tape, antiseptic wipes, burn cream, gauze roll, large and regular Band-Aids, and gauze pads. It also had small packs of Tylenol and Immodium, and possibly other stuff I am forgetting. I’ve added more Band-Aids, a roll of adhesive tape, and my tin of Rawleigh Antiseptic Salve. That more as a convenient place to keep the stuff together and easily findable than anything, since it’s become a household first aid kit.
I’ve been contemplating what one would add to it to improve it, so the little “oops” things around the house, especially with kids, are not only covered, but also the appropriate items are together. Or more generally, in a “kit” or not, what one would be sure to have in the house for first aid.
What do you think? What items are must haves for home first aid?
How about for a portable first aid kit that would go in a car, or indeed, camping?