Your personal first-aid kit
Most injuries happen at home. People fall down steps or cut themselves when cooking. So, it’s best to have everything you need close at hand in your first-aid kit.
Where to keep it
Where is a suitable place to keep your medicine cabinet? Certainly not in your bathroom: ointments and bandages should be stored in a dry, cool room, and definitely out of the reach of children.
First-aid box contents
- absorbent compress dressings
- adhesive bandages (assorted sizes)
- adhesive cloth tape
- antibiotic ointment packets
- antiseptic wipe packets
- packets of aspirin
- emergency blanket
- breathing barrier (with one-way valve)
- instant cold compress
- pair of nonlatex gloves (size: large)
- hydrocortisone ointment packets
- gauze roll (roller) bandage
- roller bandage
- sterile gauze swabs
- oral thermometer (non-mercury/nonglass),
- triangular bandages
- tweezers
- emergency first aid guide
