Boxes, bags or cosmetic bags with medicines and medical supplies are in every house. First Aid Kit is an indispensable kit. You can be absolutely healthy, but one day be off with a wild headache or a cold, for example. To run to a drugstore for medicines at this moment will not want to be exact. To help in this case, a rescue kit will come, in which, just in case, a variety of medications should be kept.
What should be part of the first aid kit?
Of course, to protect themselves from all injuries and diseases in the world will not work. But based on many years of medical experience and the characteristics of your own organism, you can easily make a list of the most necessary drugs and materials.
So, it is very desirable that in the universal first-aid kit there are such means:
1. The most common problem of modern times is headaches. They arise because of overvoltage, fatigue, magnetic storms and a lot of other factors. To suffer them sometimes it is impossible, therefore anesthetizing in the arsenal will not be superfluous. It can be:
- Aspirin;
- Analgin;
- Citramon;
- Itet;
- Solpadein.
If you are familiar with migraines, you should definitely put some kind of antispasmodic into the first aid kit, like No-Shpa or Spasmalgon.
2. Irreplaceable components of the "saving suitcase" are green and iodine. Perfectly complements this list of hydrogen peroxide. Even if you do not have children, and you differ in accuracy, to have these medicines will not hurt - from accidental injuries no one is immune. With this set, you quickly and effectively treat any wound, protecting yourself from infection.
3. Standard equipment first-aid kit necessarily includes antihistamines:
- Suprastin;
- Lorano;
- Diazolin and others.
4. Another component - a tourniquet or a medical rubber tube, the length of which should be at least one hundred centimeters.
5. Necessarily in any medicine cabinet must lie sorbents and drugs for the gastrointestinal tract:
- Activated carbon;
- White coal;
- Almogel;
- Atoxyl;
- Dufalac;
- Polysorb.
They will help with poisoning, save from diarrhea.
6. Ammonia alcohol will quickly lead to feeling faint.
7. Even if you do not suffer from cardiovascular diseases, you can put the tincture of valerian in the medicine chest for first aid. This drug is used for tachycardia. It also helps to cope with nervous excitement. Those who are familiar with angina attacks should always have Nitroglycerin.
8. Antipyretics, like Paracetamol, will quickly get rid of the temperature and improve well-being. A thermometer helps to monitor the patient's condition.
9. Most of the universal kits contain Ichthyol or Streptocide Ointment , Vaseline.
10. In addition to medicines, first aid kits contain dressings:
- bandages;
- sterile gauze wipes;
- alcohol wipes;
- cotton wool;
- patch;
- latex gloves;
- tweezers.
All drugs in the kit should be one or two packs.
How correctly to store the first-aid set?
Light, moisture and high temperatures affect medications negatively. That is why it is desirable to store all medicines in a tightly closing, non-transparent box or bag.
The expiration date of any ointments and tablets is indicated on the packages - make sure that there are no overdue drugs in the medicine cabinet.
Ointments, creams and other preparations on a fatty basis should be stored at low temperatures - preferably in a refrigerator. If they have a fetid smell, medicines should be disposed of immediately.