There's a reason it's called a chest!!! Mods please sticky this and everyone else please feel free to add to the lists if I left something out.
Basic emergency care manual!!!
Medicine Chest Contents
Equipment everyone should have:
- Activated charcoal
- Plain kitty litter with no additives or clumping compounds this is also known as bentonite clay.
- Bentonite clay
- Baking soda
- Rubbing Alcohol
- Hydrogen Peroxide
- Betadine
- Listerine (the brown stuff with no sugar etc., added) - can be used to disinfect minor wounds in pinch, it also kills athlete's foot.
- Lavender EO -Essential Oil
- Eucalyptus EO
- Oil of Oregano
- Tea Tree Oil
- Epson Salts - great to soak tired feet in!
- Pedialyte Electrolytes or ST's recipe for making electrolytes
- Gatorade - pick a clearish variety so if you give it to someone who could puke it back up you can determine what's in the vomit... gross but sometimes it needs to be done.
- OTC pain relievers
- Plain toothpaste with none of that funky stuff in it.
- Orajel for when you have a mouth/tooth situation
- Eye wash, or the recipe to make your own with DISTILLED water
- Distilled Water
- Bag Balm and/or Udder Cream - for cracked feet, fingers, and elbows
- Petroleum jelly, for those things you can't put bag balm on
- KY jelly - for those things you should NEVER put bag balm or petroleum jelly on!
- Unkers, Bengay or some other type cream for pulled muscles, etc.,
- Preperation H ~ explanation is on the box!
- Baby asprin
- Peptobismal in both liquid and tablet form
- Kayopectate
- Monostat 7 the cream variety for those spots that don't respont to antibiotic cream
- Athlete's foot medicine.
- antibiotic ointment
- silver cream for MINOR burns, etc.,
- honey
- Calmine Lotion
- Technu soap for poison ivy, sumac, oak, etc.
- Lava soap the old fashioned old timey green bar kind.
- eye cup for when you get junk in your eye - to be used only with sterile eye wash solution
- thermometer instant read and the old fashioned type just in case
- blood pressure cuff
- stethoscope
- dish pan for soaking feet, hands, etc
- crutches adjustable for several heights
- basic splints for wrist, ankle, or fingers
- athletic wrap
- bandages and bandaids of various sizes and quantities.