A home first aid kit is mainly intended for minor injures that you can treat yourself, but it should also be equipped to deal with more serious injures until the victim gets professional medical help.
First aid kits can be bought ready-made from chemists, but you can make up your own with the items given below:
1. A box of adhesive dressing (Plasters) of different sizes for covering small wounds. A roll of plaster (Cloth backed, plasticized or micro-pore tape). Blunt-ended scissors for cutting bandage of plaster.
2. Antiseptic lotion to use with the cotton wool and antiseptic wipes.
3. Cotton wool for cleaning cuts and gauzes.
4. Some triangular bandages to several safety pins for making a sling or emergency bandage.
5. Sterile dressings (field dressings) of various sizes for covering wounds. Sterile eye dressings with bandage attached for eye injuries.
6. Aspirin or paracetamol preferably sealed in foil to give longer life.
7. Anti histamine cream for insect bites and stings.
8. Tweezers for removing splinters.
9. Tubular gauze bandages for finger injuries and applicator tongs.
