What is included in a first aid kit?

Answer 1

Bag- latex gloves
2- plastic splints
1- triangular bandage
1- 2 x 4 roller gauze
2- Combine dressing
Hand lotion
16- alcohol pads
1- blood stopper
1- 3 gauze roll
2 benzo pads
3- moleskin
2- saline flush
Bandaids
P-38 can opener
Space blanket
2- aerial flares
Aluminum foil
Pencil
Wire
Whistle
Compass
Candle
Lighter
Flagging tape
Food
2- ½ liter bottles
1- hvy latex gloves
1- large trash bag
1- porta aqua tabs
2- trioxane bars
Accessory A pack
6 heat packs
Soap

Answer 2

1. You can usually build a better kit than you can buy- but stoe-bought kits tend to look cool and fit together great.

2. Most store bought kits include some garbage- cheap bandages, useless ointments, cheap tools, etc.

3. To assemble a good kit, you need to think about how it will be used. A combat kit, a diaper bag kit, and an office kit would be very different things. Some basic questions are:
- where will it be used? (Home, car, backpack...)
- what kind of people will be using it? (Children, athletes, seniors...)
- how many people will it serve?
- how long between the injury and advanced medical care? (On hand, hours away. days away?)
- what special conditions may affect injuries? (Cold, heat, industrial machines, snakes...)

4. Medicines in the kit or not? It is handy to keep certain meds in the kit, but if you have kids around, you may want to keep the meds (and probably sharp items in the kit) seperate and locked up. Meds also tend to go bad- and most of our kits have an expired med or two in them!

Check out these sites for the things to put in your kits:

Answer 3

Depends on who it is made for and whether its made as an emergancy kit or just simple daily first aid kit.

If you're making a disater kit, there is a great list of things you want to have on the red cross's website.

If you want just a basic first aid kit that you'll be replacing the contents of once a month, then just simple basics like a tube of antibiotic ointment, bandaid in various sizes, a small thing of pain reliever (for headaches that catch you while you're commuting), an instant ice pack(for bumps and bruises), some of those one time use sticky heat pack (for strain muscles or menstral cramps). You'll also want to include stuff for kids (like kid dosage tylemol) if you have any or occasioinally care for any.

Just remember to completely take your kit apart and check experation dates every 6 months or so.

Answer 4

a first aid kit should have bandaids, 4x4 gauze pads and some rolled gauze, adhesive tape, some alcohol and some hydrogen peroxide, asprin,

this would be the basics

Answer 5

-bandaids
-gauze

that type of stuff it would be easier to get a store brought first aid kit

Answer 6

those are basically guesses, yet... - Marking applications, if there is any 'survival kit' or wasteland component to your kit. - Chalk is calcium carbonate, the biggest element in issues like Tums. according to threat they meant it for a calcium substitute. - according to threat is is designed for use to end small flows, like a styptic pencil something interior the training booklet?

Answer 7

depends on the kit and where it is to be put. Mostly they have assorted size bandaids, alcohol pads, bee sting swabs, amonia inhalents, gauze pads , tape,cpr guard, gloves,TAO

Answer 8

ice packs, ace wraps, ibuprofen, band aids, insect bite medicines, neosporin, hand warmers, antibacterial hand wash, plastic mouth to mouth barriers, gauze, antihistamines, if you have family with any special needs or alergies like epi- pen or hard candy(for sugar lows)

Answer 9

What Charles B said, go on www.redcross.com, and do forget vinyl gloves (in case someone is allergic to latex), snake bite stuff, and a CPR mask.

Answer 10

bandaids,gause,scissors,tape,bee sting kit,ipacac, alchohol wipes,ointment for burns, ace bandage