Your medical box essentials

Indie_Kid

Micropore tape and menlolin. (sp)

Bronnie

Bubby wrote: »

We don't actually have any egg cups or small cups or glasses at all

I am getting loads of good tips:T

I always find the easiest way to bathe an eye is to fill a normal glass or cup to the absolute brim, bend over the draining board and with eye wide open, blink into the water!

My supplies ( for adults) are pretty basic: Paracetemol,savlon cream, plasters, olbas oil,TCP

never use lemsip: honey and lemon (bottled if necessary) and paracetemol
the runs: starve and sip water and send someone to Tesco for arrowroot biscuits
rehydration: lemonade with a pinch of salt (or bag of ready salted crisps ) or water with sugar and a pinch of salt if no lemo!
sore throats etc, Werthers and gargle with TCP (yuk!) and take paracetemol


I think I'm probably a bit blase, as we're lucky enough to be a fairly hardy tribe, but we are also in easy proximity to shops!!

jenniewb

I have ....

Pills:
Ibuprofen (despite the fact they nolonger have any effect on me!)
Paracetamol with caffiene
Paracetamol without caffiene (for night time)
Prescription pills (wont go into details here but in date repeat prescription stuff)
Wind relief pills
Constipation pills
Indigestion pills
Buscopan
CLA pills
Energy pills called Red Kooga Energy plus or something

Creams and ointments:
Gavescon
Milk of Magnesia
Beechams Cough Mixture
Nasal spray (careful, this stuff is addictive, I had to withdraw gradually- get this: one nostril at a time!! as advised by a medic!)
Bachs Rescue Remedy and various other remedys by Bach
Freeze spray
Deep Heat spray
Deep Heat cream
Bonjela
Iglu gel/paste
Vaseline
Aloe Vera gel
After Sun
4-Head (everyone should have one of these!)

Powders and Sachets:
Lemsip powder
Rehydration powders
Berucca effervescent pills (never used these Boots gave me them free)
Heat patches for my back, knee and abdomen
Suport patches for my calf and knee

Bubby

Bronnie wrote: »

I always find the easiest way to bathe an eye is to fill a normal glass or cup to the absolute brim, bend over the draining board and with eye wide open, blink into the water!QUOTE]

Thanks for that idea, that will be great for us but the kids are a nightmare even having eye drops (pinned down and sat on with eyes prized open - 2 man job:eek:) so I think something like an eye bath will be good for them.

Once you have used an eye bath can you sterilise it and use it again or would you need to have 1 per person in the cupboard?

So far my list is


Kids

Calpol (or cheaper version)
Nurofen
Sore throat pastilles
vapour rub
eye bath
plasters
germaline with local aneasthetic
Diorylite(sp)
Arnica
glycerin syrup for sore throats and coughs
Electric thermometor - Has anyone tried the one that reads the forehead rather than the ears? (they have very sensitive ears and often wouldn't let me use the Braun thermoscan:()
Antiseptic wipes


Us

Nurofen (possibly plus version)
Paracetamol
ear drops
Throat sweets (aneasthetic and antiseptic) (have yet to go a couple of weeks without having to use these:()
bandages and melonin
sinus tablets (regular problem for me)
cold and flu tablets (regular sufferers)
rennie tablets
cold sore gel
ulcer gel (hubby is regular sufferer:()
cocodamol (find this works best on bad backs for me)
Diarrhoea relief

We don't use any cough syrups and also have a long list of vitamins that we all are going to start taking as our immune systems are shocking!!! We always suffer from colds and sore throats (even in summer!) We are also going to stop using plug in air fresheners as this seems to aggravate the problem and will go back to using incense sticks

Wow jenniewb that list is amazing think i will be pinching some of those ideas :-)

meltdown_point

Anbesol gel/liquid for toothache!!
germaloine (sp)
plasters of all shapes and sizes
calpol
diaorlite
cammoile lotion
hedrin (nit lotion)
soft white parrafin
flamazine (for burns)
Daktarin for lots of uses ie oral thrush/ athlets foot
Berocca for a boost when your run down
co codoamol
burophen
sensodyne toothpaste....as it also helps with toothache!!!!!!
antiseptic wipes!
dummystitches.......for deeper cuts ds used these to hold his skin together when he fell and cut his chin open.......into A&E and he needed real stitches!!

muslin cloth and vicks......for steaming ourselves when we are congested!!

samartins olive oil......its the absolute purest......also keep an eggcup full in the fridge as it solidifies and we use it as an ointment for cooling and moisturising our dry skin!!

heat belts......as i regularly hurt my back by not lifting properly!! Good to have also is deep heat for muscular pain!!

samace83

Blimey - you lot are so organised!
OH is asthmatic so I have a drawer specifically for his inhalers. Also in there are some co-codamol (cause he won't take paracetamol!), tissues, TCP spray on plaster, my thyroid tablets, some blackcurrant lemsip, plasters and some rennies. That's quite a shambles compared to some of you lot.....
Sam

Hermia

In mine I have...

Painkillers
Anti-histamines (come in very handy now so many people have allergies)
Antiseptic cream
Plasters
Throat sweets
Diarrhea tablets & rehydration sachets
Ibruprofen gel
Bandages with a dressing attached in case I need to stop serious bleeding
Sling (as I don't have any cloths big enough to deal with a broken arm)

And please consider taking a first aid course if you haven't already. I have heard so many horrible stories of parents who didn't know first aid and made terrible mistakes.

Bubby

elsien wrote: »

And I used olive oil out of the kitchen for my ears instead of buying special stuff. Is that bad?

When we were little my nan used to use warmed oil of some sort in our ears if we had an infection, is this how you use it?:o

elsien

That's the one. And the nurse at the GP's said olive oil is as effective as eardrops for clearing out earwax if you're a bit bunged up as well.

luxor4t

Paracetamol
Plasters
Lemon & honey cough mixture
Antiseptic cream
Tums (fruity sort)

after we have been on holiday to ...umm..oh, yes, Luxor, I usually have some own-brand Immodium & rehydration sachets tucked away

otherwise there's just the tons of prescription drugs we have to take to stay upright!