What's in your first aid kit?

[~clover~]

DD1 fell hard at netball on the weekend. They pulled out an instant ice pack. You sqeeze it to break up whatever is inside & it goes cold. Sadly for DD this one didn't work, but I thought they were a great idea.
I also always have a stop itch cream added to mine as well, because of DD's bee allergy.

[briggsy's girl]

we have a couple of the instant cool packs here (very small ones) that we got free with DD's ear thermometer - they are the ones that go on the forehead when kidlet is feverish - had thought about an instant cold pack or three (i am prone to ankle injuries as well as my dud wrist) - was also thinking of getting an instant heat pack to go in the first aid kit (will cost me a small fortune cos i want a new one for all the time use lol)

have been looking online for ideas, and a lot of places have the stop itch stuff in a wipe (kinda like take away wet wipes) - was thinking of grabbing some of those too - just need to find a site where things are cheap enough to warrant it!

some stuff is totally irrelevant in the first aid kits you buy commercially - and some are very exxy - so was thinking of making my own up. only thinking though - it has to work out viable! lol

[FabFiona]

Note to self - get a first aid kit. Then read this thread.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I need to get one for the car especially with the girls riding motorbikes more and getitng involved in gymnastics and the like.

Antiseptic ointment, tweezers, good scissors, bandages & slings, the instant ice packs and things would be great.
Eye patch, cotton balls/buds - gauze patches.

My stepmum has THE BEST first aid kit.. i really should ask her whats in it.

Sometimes a small torch is good for seeing into cuts etc aswell.

[Trillian]

I always have the torch in the console of the car anyway, which is separate from the first aid kit, but handy none the less. It's a small LED one.

[briggsy's girl]

I always have the torch in the console of the car anyway, which is separate from the first aid kit, but handy none the less. It's a small LED one.

my dad is LED torch crazy - so we have them all over the place as well. might be a good idea to throw one in first aid kit.

[Trillian]

We have loads of them here too. Smiggle do a really nice little one for $6.95. The one I have is bigger though, it's about 4 inches long and it was one of those cancer council daffodil day ones you see at the checkouts in woolies. With the footy club, we had to replace the ones we had, and I brought a Surgipack branded one for $55 for the canteen and it had loads of stuff in it. I thought it was really reasonable for the price. We added more bandaids and gloves to it, oh and alcohol wipes - I also added those to the car kit too.

[briggsy's girl]

just found a site that has a medium first aid kit as a buy one get one free - for $20
it doesn't have what i would consider a "medium" amount of stuff in it - but it's not a bad start
ideally i'd have a decent st john's kit, but that's waaaaaaaaay outside of the budget at the moment!

[*LittleMissSummer*]

Note to self - get a first aid kit. Then read this thread.

Me too..

I'm so naughty, poor DD has had a few accidents and i haven't had anything to clean her up