Whats in your first aid box/ medicine cupboard???

Sarahsaver

THey have just got a big contract here to transport 'vulnerable people' (taking people to daycare, disabled kids to schooll etc) as well as provide ambulances. So I will either be accompanying people in ambulances or in other vehicles.

tim_n

ah, so you're 'level 1'. Not sure what they're called these days and our county has apparently disbanded the training for that kind of thing :- (

Good luck! I prefer the driving myself ;- )

Linda32

We keep paracetamol, Andrews and Rennie, Plasters, Eye Bath, Tweezers, Muscle Rub, Vasaline. Nothing fancy really.

My cold remedy is paracetamol and Slice of Lemon with Hot water poured over and sweetened with Honey

Pink.

Hi everyone,

As this thread has become more health orientated than Old Style, I'll move it over to the Health board. Please remember not to ask for or give remedies. See here for more details.

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kittiwoz

In my box I have:
bottle of dispersible asprin
bottle of paracetamol
blister pack of ibuprofen (all generic)
some throat lozenges
rennies
germolene
setri-strips
clove oil
tea tree oil
olbas oil
bottle of piriton just in case
zinc oxide tape (mainly used for covering housemates labrette piercing when trampolining but also on small cuts)
deep heat
deep freeze
an ankle support
a crepe bandage and safety pin (all in case of trampolining injury)
I normally relly on honey and lemon with a splosh of whisky for colds but I have some mentholated bronchial balsam and vicks sinex spray left over from when I had a particularly bad one.

I have the rennies over from a few years ago when after trampolining we often went to the pub followed by a late night curry and I used to suffer for it a bit the next day. In fact though the rennies didn't help much, I think they're more for acid indigestion. In the end I found the best thing was to drink a can of pop to make me burp after which I felt much better. Not very nice, sorry, but possibly useful.

Savvy_Sue

There's not a lot in my first aid tin, TBH, but does no-one else keep an emergency tenner in there in case you need to get a taxi to hospital? You know, if it's not bad enough to need an ambulance but you either can't drive or don't have a car available?

Whether I'd remember it was there is another matter ...

Although the last couple of times we've been away and left the boys behind I have remembered to tell them it's there in case they have an emergency ...