First Aid Kit - What's in yours?

celyn90

HoneyPie wrote: »

Celyn90 - Sounds like an organised FA Kit! !

Can I ask - Why a pound coin ?

In case I have to make a phone call, old girl guiding trick - we used to check the kids had a 10 p on them in case they needed to make a call and it kinda stuck with me. My house doesn't have a landline (thanks to BT being incompetant) so on the occassion that the mobiles are dead/out of credit I can use the payphone down the road.

I used to have some random stuff in the one I took on camps and holidays when I was a guider - often if the kids were grizzily calming them down was the main thing so the magic first aid kit used to contain all sorts of things like stress balls and balloons (you'd be suprised how tiring blowing up ballons is and how calming a repetative action like squeezing a stress ball is!) to distract them and calm them down. I'd have some sachets of sugar in that kit too - mixed with water was a great and convincing placebo. Reminds me of the Granny Weatherwax's "sucre et aqua" treatment in Terry Pratchett's books.

morwenna

celyn90 wrote: »

In case I have to make a phone call, old girl guiding trick - we used to check the kids had a 10 p on them in case they needed to make a call and it kinda stuck with me. My house doesn't have a landline (thanks to BT being incompetant) so on the occassion that the mobiles are dead/out of credit I can use the payphone down the road.

I'd have some sachets of sugar in that kit too - mixed with water was a great and convincing placebo. Reminds me of the Granny Weatherwax's "sucre et aqua" treatment in Terry Pratchett's books.

As I am an old Girl Guide you will be proud to know I have two 20p's in mine

I also have Tea Tree, Eucalyptus & Lavender essential oils and Rescue Remedy, as these days, I am trained as an Holistic Therapist.

And don't forget the Headology with the "sucre et aqua" treatment - invaluable in the cure, I think you will find

thriftmonster

Well I'm in the Crazychik and Math camp on this:

Paracetamol and Calpol
Ibruprofen and prescription Brufen
Co- proximol (yes I know they're banned from presciption now)
Neo clarityn - tablet and syrup
Piriton
Sudafed
Lemsip
Butttercup syrup
Pholcodine
Witch hazel
Sterile saline packs
Plasters
Some hospital burn cream
Threadworm stuff
Rehydration salts - dog and human
Anthisan
Dettol
Antiseptic cream
Plasters
Frontline
Worming tablets - dog - Drontal and Panocure
St Johns wort
Deep heat
Ibrugel
Cold relief tablets
Sudocrem
Diprobase
Hydrocortisone cream

And we've never poisoned anyone yet!!

moanymoany

I always had melanin/melolin pads. They are so great as they don't stick - anyone over 50 might remember bandages on scraped knees - eeeek! The pads can be bought ready sticky (round the edges) which are so useful on days out.

I've always carried plasters, travel sickness tabs and a valium!!!!;)

webitha

you name it i got it and im not joking
i got everything from plasters to disposible scapels and everything in between for any situation
OH is in st johns went to resupply at their website coz they are cheaper than any shop, and he went a bit mental :rotfl:
anyone can order from st johns and its cheap so have a look next time you need to resupply, have a look very mse,

kazmeister

:rotfl:
You dont want to know what is in my bag! I'm ex A&E ambulance staff and my OH is a paramedic and we used to do a lot of private work covering events so I have EVERYTHING !!, Airways, BVM, BM testing kit, Aspirin, as well as all the usual stuff. Obviously have all the household meds to cover every eventuality but no A&E/prescribable drugs.

Stephen_Leak

My home one is the usual combined medicine cupboard and first aid kit: a small packet of aspirin, tube of antiseptic cream, small packet of ibuprofen tablets, tube of ibuprofen gel, and a pack of finger plasters.

For the kitchen, I suppose I ought to get some of those detectable blue plasters. My new kitchen knives are still scalpel sharp and capable of doing my fingers as much damage as any ingredients.

I do have a proper first aid kit, which is kept in my car and is an HSE standard one for 1 person. However, I have added an eye bandage (I could never understand why this wasn't included in the HSE spec') and a pair of stainless steel tweezers (splinters, etc.) and a pair of stainless steel 4" blunt/blunt (that means that the end of both halves are rounded - easier for unskilled use - possibly on me) scissors.

ceridwen

No need to buy an icepack - just use a pack of frozen peas (just the job - mould to shape as required - unlike frozen brussels sprouts).

ceridwen

and.....in case antibiotics are prescribed for owt....(still dished out like Smarties a bit IMHO) - you need the "beneficial bugs" to have in copious quantities at the same time (eg live yogurt or kefir - alternatively you can buy suitable capsules of this type of "bugs" from health food stores - think lactobacillus is the generic name of them).

I found that one out for myself - as doctors never used to tell people of the necessity for this when dishing out the antibiotics (maybe some still dont?) and I only realised antibiotics kill the "good guy" bugs in your intestines, as well as the "bad" ones when I wondered why I came down with thrush every time I had a course of antibiotics. But you do need the beneficial "bugs" for a lot more reasons than that when taking antibiotics.

Angelina-M

I'm with ceridwen. Everytime I had antibiotics I would end up feeling worse because of horrible thrush that I would get. Now I regularly take kefir I dont even remember the last time I took antibiotics so maybe its protecting me.