Any good housewife will always have at home the necessary medicines and first aid. They can be stored in different ways. Someone starts a special box, someone a shelf - or a cabinet. The main thing is that at the right moment everything is at hand. But do you know what should be in the medicine cabinet, and what to buy is not necessary? After all, someone’s health or even life may depend on this simple set.
What should be in the medicine cabinet
Doctors advise having the following set at home:
- paracetamol or aspirin (or better, both);
- ammonia;
- the simplest painkillers;
- allergy medicine. Even if no one in the family suffers from it;
- thermometer;
- cotton wool, sterile bandages;
- hydrogen peroxide, iodine, potassium permanganate, brilliant green;
- heart remedies (Corvalol);
- Activated carbon;
- sedatives;
- drugs that help normalize digestion.
The first-aid kit must also include such items as a rubber bulb and a heating pad. They are rarely used, but they can be needed at any time. In addition to them, you can add a tourniquet, rubber gloves, ointments for burns and insect bites.
What should be in the first-aid kit, in addition, depends on the individual characteristics of the people living in the house. As a rule, each person has his own set of drugs that he is used to. In any case, all drugs in the medicine cabinet must be regularly checked and maintained in accordance with storage conditions. Do not forget to get rid of expired drugs.
First aid kit
A person does not spend his whole life at home. He goes to work, to the store, drives a car. Carrying a home medicine cabinet is extremely inconvenient. Therefore, such things should be in public places, in transport. They must be taken with you on a trip. The following describes what should be in the first-aid kit:
- elastic bandage for applying bandages for fractures, sprains, dislocations;
- gauze bandage;
- scissors for cutting bandages or clothes;
- tweezers to remove various objects from wounds;
- cotton wool for disinfection of wounds;
- gauze napkins for stopping blood;
- band-aid for fixing dressings;
- tourniquet for clamping limbs in order to stop severe bleeding;
- hydrogen peroxide, brilliant green, iodine for disinfection of wounds;
- hypothermic packages providing cold during injuries;
- surgical gloves;
- potassium permanganate for washing wounds and affected surfaces;
- ammonia (used for fainting);
- anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, analgesic ointment;
- Activated carbon;
- antipyretic and analgesics;
- local and general anti-allergic drugs;
- nitroglycerin (used in acute heart failure);
- hormonal anti-inflammatory drugs;
- antiseptic solution for the eyes;
- means for oral rehydration (used for severe fluid loss).
Everything that should be in the first-aid kit should be bought only in pharmacies. Pay attention to the expiration dates and integrity of the packaging.