Medicines from home first aid kit can tell a lot about family health. Something was bought specifically about the supply, something as needed, during a cold or intestinal disorder. But still, it is much wiser to equip a home first aid kit on the list drawn up in advance with the recommendations of specialists.
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First aid kit must be in every home. After all, life sometimes pretends such surprises, which are difficult to foresee in advance. Household injuries, light burns, digestion disorders, intestinal colic, heartburn, head and dental pain, conjunctivitis or rhinestone often do not require access to the doctor, and home use can be quite enough to cope with the situation. In addition, there are critical states when the life of a person depends on the presence of medication or undergraduate agents. Strong bleeding, acute allergic reaction, tightened fainting, hypertensive crisis, attack of angina — require emergency care before the doctor's arrival. What should contain a full-fledged home first aid kit? The list of basic drugs can be modified depending on the age and chronic diseases at households. Dressing materials, Tools for processing wounds typically have a standard list.
Means for stopping bleeding and other
- Bandage sterile for dressings, non-sterile and elastic for fixation, including dressings and compresses.
- Wool sterile and non-sterile for dressings, compresses, lotions.
- Leucoplasty in ribbon to fix dressings.
- Rubber harness to stop arterial bleeding.
- Ice bubble and warmer.
- Rubber Rubber for finger protection during cuts and injuries.
- Sterile gloves.
- Scissors with stupid ends.
- Tweezers without teeth.
- Eye pipette.
- Thermometer.
- Tonometer, must be obligatory for people over 45 years and suffering hypertension.
Exterior tools and medicines at home first aid kit
- Tools for processing wounds. Iodine alcohol solution 5% for skin treatment around the wound, alcohol solution of diamond greenery can be disinfected by a random surface area.
- Bactericidal leuccoplasty for small wounds.
- Solution 3% hydrogen peroxide for rinsing wounds, throat rinsing.
- Potassium permanganate solution for rinsing wounds and stomach in poisoning.
- The ammonia alcohol is 10% aqueous solution, to remove from a crumpled condition, a swath, moistened with a tool, bring to the nose of the patient.
- Sulfacyl sodium 30% or other antiseptic eye drops for injection during injuries, ingress of foreign bodies, conjunctivitis.
- The mustard pieces used as a distracting agent are applied for 10 minutes to the icy muscles in hypertension, on the chest in the heart area during the attack of angina or cold.
- Panthenol or Bepanten as a means for burns.
Home first aid kit: List of internal medicines
- Package preparations: Analgin, Tempalgin, Maksigan, Ketanov or others.
- Antipyretic, painful preparations: Water soluble aspirin and paracetamol.
- Validol, Corvalol, Valokardin — Means with light pain in breast, tachycardia.
- Nitroglycerin in tablets We need elderly people suffering from angina and pain in the heart.
- TAVEGIL, Loratadine, Claritin, diazoline — Antiallergic tools in tablets. Antihistamine ointment to eliminate itching and edema from insect bites.
- Coal Activated, Smacks, Polyphones — Adsorbents used in poisoning, allergies, gastrointestinal disorders.
- Means from a cold for people suffering from chronic rhinitis.
- Remantadin — Antiviralize for seasonal flu epidemic. In the first 48 hours from the beginning of the disease, it is able to stop the development of symptoms.
- Means from heartburn, for example, an almagel, in the case of the presence of increased acidity and leaning to overeating.
- Candy lollipops with sore throat.
The list of drugs worthy of occupying a place in a home first aid kit must be supplemented with drugs used in chronic diseases of households, hypertensive, let's say, must be hypotonic tools of fast action, for example, clofelin, captopril. For a patient with bronchial asthma, inhalation drugs, removing bronchospasm, and suffering osteochondrosis, may be useful, anesthetic ointment may be useful.
Revision home aid kit
The revision of the home first aid kit must be carried out at least than 1 time per year. The expired projected drug in the critical situation will be at least — useless as maximum — DANGER. Tableted preparations Store in convaluts and packages with instructions. Food-containing ointments, creams, gels, solutions for injection is better to put in the refrigerator. In the nasal, ear and eye drops, microbes are quickly multiplied, so if during illness, the drugs were not fully used, they can be thrown out, as well as open more than six months ago syrups. By the way, the instructions attached to the medicine usually indicate the shelf life and storage conditions.
Home first aid kit must be stored in a dry, dark and cool place, perhaps in the bedroom or in the hallway, in an easily accessible for adults, but not for children, the bright pills have become a toy or source of poisoning.
