First Aid Kit

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. What I’ve already seen in a lot of homes and workplaces is that there’s no first aid kit for emergencies, and if there is one, the stuff in it is old and needs replacing. We know that accidents can happen at any time, so why not prepare for them in advance? 

 

In your kit, you need to have the necessary tools: scissors to cut things, tweezers to avoid touching the patient and to pick little things, safety pins to hold stuff together, disposable sterile gloves to keep things clean and a thermometer to know how warm the patient’s body is. 

 

The tools won’t be useful if you don’t have the materials and medicines. Always keep different kinds and sizes of plaster and gauze dressings to treat cuts and deep wounds. Also, make sure to keep bandage rolls and alcohol-free cleaning wipes. To treat your patient’s skin, you may need to use creams or sprays. You patient may be in extreme pain, so have different kinds of painkillers for different age groups. When you treat your patient, his or her body may react to the medicine, so always keep some antihistamine tablets in the kit. For cleaning the wounds, you need distilled water, and to wash your patient’s eyes, put some eyewash in the kit. 

 

The most important thing is that you need to keep the first aid kit in a cool, dry place, and children mustn’t be able to touch it!