Any good housewife will always have the necessary medicines and first aid at home. They may be stored in different ways. Someone starts a special box, someone a shelf - or a locker. The main thing is that at the right time everything is at hand. Do you know what should be in the first aid kit, and what to buy is not necessary at all? After all, someone's he alth or even life may depend on this simple set.
What should be in the first aid kit
Doctors advise to have the following kit at home:
- paracetamol or aspirin (better both);
- ammonia;
- the simplest painkillers;
- allergy medicine. Even if no one in the family suffers from it;
- thermometer;
- cotton wool, sterile bandages;
- hydrogen peroxide, iodine, potassium permanganate, brilliant green;
- heart remedies ("Corvalol");
- activated carbon;
- sedatives;
- drugs that help normalize digestion.
A universal first aid kit should includeyourself, and items such as a rubber bulb and a heating pad. They are rarely used, but they can be needed at any time. In addition to them, you can add a tourniquet, rubber gloves, ointments for burns and insect bites.
What should be in the first aid kit, in addition, depends on the individual characteristics of the people living in the house. As a rule, each person has his own set of drugs to which he is accustomed. In any case, all drugs in the first-aid kit must be regularly checked and kept in accordance with storage conditions. Don't forget to dispose of expired drugs.
First aid kit
A man does not spend his whole life at home. He goes to work, goes to the store, drives a car. Carrying a first aid kit with you is extremely inconvenient. Therefore, such things should be in public places, in transport. You need to take them with you when you travel. The following describes what should be in an emergency first aid kit:
- elastic bandage for dressing fractures, sprains, dislocations;
- gauze bandage;
- scissors for cutting bandages or clothes;
- tweezers for removing various objects from wounds;
- cotton for wound disinfection;
- blood stop gauze pads;
- adhesive plaster to fix bandages;
- a tourniquet for pinching limbs to stop severe bleeding;
- hydrogen peroxide, brilliant green, iodine for wound disinfection;
- hypothermia bags to provide cold for injuries;
- surgical gloves;
- potassium permanganate for washing wounds and affected surfaces;
- ammonia (used for fainting);
- anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, analgesic ointment;
- activated carbon;
- antipyretics and painkillers;
- antiallergic drugs of local and general action;
- nitroglycerin (used for acute heart failure);
- hormonal anti-inflammatory drugs;
- antiseptic eye solution;
- oral rehydration product (used for severe fluid loss).
Everything that should be in the first aid kit should be bought only in pharmacies. Pay attention to the expiration dates and the integrity of the product packaging.
