Are you ready for almost ANY First-Aid basic triage situation? Most First Aid kits from stores are highly inadequate for a family of four in a true emergency situation. Today, I will be listing 21 items needed in a survival kit. I have so much information for an overall survival kit these are just the 21 for first aid . I will be posting more in my next blog. If you want to purchase just scroll over each item. I do suggest starting off with a hiking or camping first aid kit as opposed to a small family home kit. You want your supplies to be able to a LEAST sustain a family of 4 for a month.
2. Alcohol (to sterilize anything being used as an instrument
3. Adhesive Tape
4. Gauze
7. Spirit of peppermint- For easing nausea and mild stomach spasms
8. Kaopectate- Diarrhea stomach irritation
9. Scissors- small type for bandages and gauze.
10. First Aid Book- Brush up BEFORE an emergency strikes.
11. Sanitary Napkins- Not just for the "monthly". To help with bleeding and put on a compression site. Inexpensive, can be used on a large area.
12. Hexol, Lysol or any GOOD STRONG disinfectant- Cheap dollar store won't do.
13. Sheets- torn for bandages and help tie off bleeders and/or tie up splints.
14. Newspaper and cardboard (all that cardboard from UPS/Fedex/Amazon deliveries)- For making splints and tourniquets)
15. Aspirin
16. Epsom Salt- Large Box
17. Baking Soda- Large box
18. Hot water bottle
19. Ice cap
20. Sulfur (powder or salve)- Sulfur is applied to the skin for acne, hayfever, skin redness (rosacea), dandruff, scaly and red skin patches (seborrheic dermatitis), an itchy skin infection caused by mites (scabies), lice, cold sores, warts, and poison oak, ivy, and sumac infections.
21. Cotton
Remember, just having these items is useless without proper planning and education. Read over your first aid book. I recommend getting one for Children and another one for general use. This is just a list for emergency care. Our next blog article will be on more survival list necessities. Have any other ideas for first aid? Leave a comment below and you might be chosen to win an Amazon gift code!