Family medicine/first aid box

Quenastoise

With DS feeling under the weather this week, I am reviewing our family medicine box/first aid box as you never know when you're going to need that stuff in a hurry. All that is out of date has been binned, leaving us with:

- lemsip for colds
- Benylin for chesty coulgs (not suitable for children under 12)
- nurofen
- Calpol paracetamol for children 6+

- TCP (I hate the smell and don't know how to use the stuff)
- E45 itch relief cream
- deep freeze cold gel pain relief
- antiseptic cream
- Calrub vapour rub
- burn spray

- antiseptic wipes
- collection of plasters
- bandage
- thermometer

Any else that could would recommend ? And what would you have in the car ?

I had a look at the family first aid kits in Boots and they don't look very substantial

Thank you. Fingers crossed we don't need that stuff too often !

lauren_1

Im one of those who would of used the out of date stuff. I probably have plasters from 1996 too, lol

hitchins

Diarrhoea medication

Milk of Magnesia

Calamine Lotion

Andrews

jackomdj

we have resolve!

we also have blisteeze (sp?), diocalm, medised.

OH once brought some eye wash stuff home, which we now always have as DD managed to spray bathroom freshner into her eye & I was so pleased it was there.

We have some of the strip plasters (like the fabric stitches you can get if you go to hospital) which were bought when I chopped through my finger.

Vasaline is useful too although in our house it is used when OH goes jogging & under noses when people have a runny nose.

I am sure we have more....

mountainofdebt

I hate reading these threads as I realise what a carp mum I am.

I haven't got a first aid box - apart from painkillers from when we get the odd headache - all medicine is bought on a need to use basis.

Do have resolve though which probably is more down to our drinking habits than being prepared.

whitewing

We have paracetamol for adults and calpol and teething gel.

Couldn't have done this as a single parent family but now we have Boots in the same town open 8am - 6pm and 24 hour Tesco 10 miles away with a smaller one open until late 10 mins away. We therefore buy as and when needed. Can generally tell in time that they are beginning to tell under the weather.

seafarers_wife

i cant live without my medicine box, its always fully stocked just in case as I am a little bit of a drama queen

In the house box I have

own brand imodium
own brand paracetamol
own brand ibruprofen
own brand soluble asprin (oh cant/wont swallow tablets, the wuss that he is)
own brand rennies
plasters
antiseptic cream
bandages
safety pins
tweezers
own brand cough medicine
strepsels
own brand cold and flu releif
bite and sting releif cream
caneston
antihistamines
sudacrem

and in the car kit (basically the whole glove compartment) i have a little travel first aid kit from boots and i have also added to it, own brand imodium, own brand rennies, bite and sting releif cream, antihistamines, paracetamol, ibruprofen, asprin and a contact lens case. i keep a bottle of solution in the glove compartment along with a spare pair of glasses should i need to take contacts out or the glasses that im wearing break. also keep a pack of anitbacterial cleaning wipes along with a packet of baby wipes, a pack of tissues, a box of cereal bars, a can of coke, a wind up mobile charger thing and a wind up torch just in case.

see drama queen

eta i dont have kids, but when i do i think the only thing needing to be added is calpol and a thermometer to the house box and calpol sachets to the car kit.

puppypants

Please be careful when dosing peeps up when they're poorly. i.e. dont give cold and flu remedies at the same time as paracetamol they both contain paracetamol. Always check the ingredients on the bottle/packet or you will be overdosing them. (6 paracetamol at once can actually be lethal in some cases)

I realise this is well known to some but there may be someone out there that doesn't know.

Spose that's 30 years of nursing still running through my veins!!!

RosieX

BitterAndTwisted

Eh, I think I've got some plasters and antiseptic cream kicking around here somewhere. My theory is that the more stuff you buy the more you find reasons to use it.

DueMarch11

Hmm, we have an old sweet box that seems to have become the 'first aid/drug box', havent specifically gone out and bought stuff to put in, just seem to have collected over the last couple years.

We have:

• Infant Paracetamol
• Lactolose (DD's bowels are iffy)
• Codeine (Unfinished prescription)
• Paracetamol
• Tixylix (prob needs throwing out thinking about it)
• Savlon
• Deep Heat
• Heartburn Tablets
• OH's daily drugs (Prescription)
• Plasters
• Own brand strepsils

Think thats about it, may go through it later and chuck some stuff out / note what needs replacing, we ought to have a first aid kit really.

ailuro2

ditch the burn spray and get some cling film instead - it protects the burn while you run it under cold water, then it keeps it clean till you get it seen to if it's serious enough to need medical attention.;)

Learned that on my first aid course a few months back.

We don't use imodium either, as our bowels are fine, if we have the runs it's for a reason, so it's better out than in, iyswim.