Home first aid kit

[Craikeybaby]

After coming off my bike on a few days ago, and losing some skin, I've realised that our first aid kit at home is pretty woeful. Just a small hiking type kit and some spray plaster. Most of it was out of date.

So I'm either looking for recommendations a fairly comprehensive kit, or ideas of what it should contain. We cycle a lot and my wife runs, so I guess some sort of provision should be made for sports injuries, but mainly general domestic stuff.

[Craikeybaby]

thebraketester said:

Try and get some “Yunnan Baiyao”

It’s popular in China and it’s very good at stopping bleeding from cuts and grazes.

Google it.

Thanks, that sounds interesting, I'll look it up.

RTB said:

Also interested in this. A while ago my youngest lad managed to leap off a step and land bare-footed on a plastic truck. The truck punctured his foot. After we stopped the bleeding the only plasters I could find were those little round ones about the size of a penny.

Sorting out a first aid kit was on my list..... still not done.

One for the house and one for camping would be good.

Yikes! I hope he is OK now, it sounds like the sort of thing that would happen here.

Riley Blue said:

Our house is on three floors, we have a first aid kit and fire extinguisher on each floor. The last thing you want to do in an emergency is run up and down stairs to fetch whatever you need to deal with it.

It probably makes sense to keep a few essentials, plasters/anti septic etc in our bathroom, but as it is only a small house, I don't think we'll need a full kit. I guess it may make sense to have something in the garage too...

Slushbox said:

Apart from bandages and Band-Aids, a good selection of Melolin and HSE dressings and a couple of rolls of Micropore tape are useful when skin is missing.

They come in various sizes, the big ones are useful as they can be cut down. After that add antiseptic cream (Savlon) , pair of clean scissors, eye saline, eye pad, and Band-Aids.

Also the HSE dressings (dressing pad in a bandage) are useful for punctures/grazes holes. Various sizes. Dressings need to be changed daily, so having more than you think you need around is a good idea.

The ST John Ambulance F.A. kits are quite good, add a few dressing pads, saline for washing grazes, and a roll of Micropore.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MELOLIN-INDIVIDUAL-STERIL...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reliance-Medical-Large-Dr...

Thanks, those HSE dressings would have been perfect, instead I used melolin dressings and micropore tape - which were painful to remove! I'll certainly be getting some of those for future!

[Craikeybaby]

That does look like good stuff!