To ask what's in your first aid box?

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Inspired by another thread, I don't have a first aid box of sorts at home but have various bits like plasters and medicine around the house. Would like to be more organised and have a box of the absolute essentials for 2 x adults and 2 x small children!

What's in yours?

Not at home to check but from memory:

Plasters
Saline solution ampoules (for washing wounds/eyes)
Gauze
Medical tape
blister plasters
Scissors
Antiseptic spray
Rehydration sachets
Calpol sachets
Antihistamines
Gaviscon tablets
Paracetamol
Ibuprofen
Fybogel
Loperamide
Insect bite clicker thing
Thermometer

Probably other things I should have, watching with interest!

Brulidine
Savlon
Plasters
Wound dressings
Zinc tape
Bandages
Wound powder for the dog
Bug repellent
Antihistamines
Eurax
Hydrocortisone cream
Tiger Balm
Support bandages
Flea treatment
Anti rub spray for feet
Painkillers
Calpol sachets
Cough syrup
Sinus spray and sinus flush

Sterile wipes
Micropore tape in two sizes
Dressings in two sizes
Bandages
Multiple plasters in a variety of sizes
Insect bite cream
Antiseptic cream
Arnica cream
Thermometer
Epipen
Ventolin inhaler
Spacer for the inhaler
Antihistamines, nasal antihistamines, hay fever wipes, nasal steroid
Various medications, including a full migraine cocktail
Cold gel, diclofenic gel, heat pads, heat gel, cooling roll on, tiger balm
Cold and flu medicines, nasal inhaler things, vicks rub, sinus steamer thing
Plaque disclosing tablets, retainer cleaner, clove oil, teething granules, bonjela
Anti worming stuff, verruca treatment, fungal toenail treatment, nitty gritty comb, anti fungal cream, piles cream
Nail clippers in various sizes, tweezers in various sizes, small scissors
Various joint supports, compression stockings and things like that left over from specific injuries/ surgery
Sudocrem, E45, a few Milton tablets
Probably more I've forgotten about, we have two, a small emergency kit which is more easily accessible and a bigger medicines and first aid box

Paracetamol, antihistamine tablets, plasters, dressing, eye bath, witch hazel, thermometer. Ice pack in the freezer.

Plasters
Savlon
Tweezers
Painkillers
Imodium
Thermometer
Oxygen monitor finger clip (not essential or reliable)
Olbas Oil
Vicks Vapour Rub
Chloraseptic
Deep Heat Cream

(No small children but when we did we would have Calpol and one of those Mr Bump things but that lived in the fridge)

Oh yeah, every kind of stomach medicines like rehydration sachets, Imodium, fybogel, laxatives, mineral salt tablets, antacids, infant gaviscon etc.

I always remember first aid kits on sailing boats having Kendal mint cake in them. Presumably because it is so disgusting you need to be starving to want to eat it.

My "day out" kit that I take with me (as a nanny) to the park etc contains

• Plasters and sterile wipes
• A couple of dressings, pads and micropore tape
• Triangular bandage
• Burn gel
• Tweezers, tick remover
• Foil blanket
• Sachet of Calpol

Wow some of these are very extensive! What boxes do you store all these products in?

Inspired by a recent home emergency, we have now added tongue depressors and long curved tweezers, to help pull out choking hazards fron throats.

NB I sat in A&E for several hours with a sharp chicken bone stuck in my throat before hanging my head upside down to use gravity amd saliva to help release it with an enormous cough. I'd have been there for an additional 5 hours (according to their board) waiting to be seen otherwise. On the drive home after discharging myself I decided we needed extra items in the first aid box since the local A&E is so poorly looked after.

General one:
Neurofen
Calpol
Minion plasters
Big plasters/dressings
Bandages
Steristrips
Anti histamines
Cough medicines
Dioralite
Lemsip
Arnica
Antiseptic cream
Bug/insect bite cream
Antiseptic wipes
Thermometer and HR/SATS probe
Random vitamins/creams etc
This is all shoved into a giant basket on top of a really high cupboard which I scrabble around desperately when my little one is ill 🙈

I have my own locked one with ibuprofen, paracetamol, iron tablets all my own epilepsy medication and rescue meds and other things I get prescribed. My mum has a first aid shelf and always has whatever you need!

I never bothered with bandages or dressings/ gauze or anything like that. If it's reached that stage I want a HCP looking at it.

Like you OP, I have virtually nothing. Some Elastoplasts. Some paracetamol. Half a packet of Lockets. Some eye drops.

Paramedic here, I have
OTC meds
Paracetamol (adults & kids)
Ibuprofen (adults & kids)
Piriton (adults, kids & dog)
Rennies
Plasters
Couple of large absorbant bandages (you need 2 for a dangerously badly bleeding wound) the second one placed on top of the absorbant dressing bit of the first one perpincular to the wound and then pressure cranked down through it as you bandage up (any rolled up bandage can be used for the second bandage)
Steristrips
Thermometer

Most other things can be improvised if serious, or wait for the supermarket to open if not.

A small box of paracetamol (the last lot was 12 years out of date). Some ancient TCP. A few old plasters.

We've got a big tupperware box in the cupboard above my microwave. It's mostly packed full of things we never use but have just in case.

Things we use:

• Calpol
• ibuprofen
• paracetamol
• plasters in a range of shapes & sizes
• hydrocolloid dressings
• self-adhesive wound dressings
• after-bite
• thermometer
• Dioralyte sachets
• inhaler
• pulse oximeter

Other stuff in there:

• bandages
• steri-strips
• sore throat spray
• throat lozenges
• Gaviscon
• Immodium
• Rennies
• meningitis test tool
• heavy dose iodine tablets that I bought earlier this year when nuclear war was being bandied around the headlines
• micropore tape
• tick remover
• eye wash solution
• TCP

That's off the top of my head. I'm sure there's plenty more random items in there.

I have a small first aid kit in the car with antiseptic wipes but when we get cuts and grazes at home we just use soap and water.

Oh yes, a handful of burn gel sachets.

Dh is a paramedic so fucking everything!

Mines in one of those old style baby changing boxes and has:
Antibiotics, painkillers, Imodium, thermometer, oximeter, plasters, bandages, spray plaster, wipes, emla cream (out of date), tiger balm, savlon, antihistamines, calpol, micropore tape, various topical creams.

I recently put tampons in there when I heard they’re good for gunshot wounds. I live in a small village where gun violence is unlikely but you never know! There is even a sterile IV travel kit in there, wouldn’t have a clue how to use it, mind.

The irony is I rarely use any of it, am not remotely health obsessed, and am squeamish about gory injuries. So it’s just sitting there, unused and unappreciated, but READY lol

I've just restocked our first aid kit and used St . John's Ambulance website. Really reasonable prices and lots of info of what to include.

Most above but also antisan bite cream. Also keep ovex since my DD started crying in discomfort on Christmas Day and all of the shops were shut.

I read some of the other thread and was a bit shocked. Same with this one.

I have a constant supply of paracetamol and ibuprofen and some germolene. That's it. I have a cut in the back of my foot and DP pulled some plasters out of his draw so I can put shoes on. I would rarely put plasters on a cut as they need to breathe? I certainly don't have anti septic wipes and all the things listed here that I've never heard of.

Most of the things listed and most of it is out of date when I go to use them 😬.

I keep a little Tupperware in my bag with panadol, ibuprofen and anti antihistamines for day to day stuff.

I have a more involved one for activities with dressings and scavenged prescription pain relief