We do not want to have to use it and less with our children, but you always have to have a medicine cabinet at home for the priests that we have to do in the family. What we are not so clear about is, How does it have to be a domestic medicine cabinet?
In this video, the Red Cross advises that the first aid kit should be simple and the essential basic elements that the first aid kit should have are listed.
Cotton dressings or gauges of various sizes to cover bleeding, clean wounds ("pure" cotton leaves traces of thread) ...
Two or three bands of different sizes to compress the dressing we have placed on the clean wound.
Adhesive tape to fix the bandages.
Latex gloves to prevent contagion.
Antiseptic such as chlorhexidine for the cleaning or disinfection of wounds (such as Crystalline; but not iodine like Betadine (which they point out in the video) because it is contraindicated in newborns, pregnant women, women who breastfeed or people with thyroid disorder).
Physiological serum or hydrogen peroxide to clean wounds.
Alcohol only for skin cleansing but not in open wounds.
Tweezers and scissors (to extract chips, to cut clothes, gauze ...).
A small mask is used to breathe air into a cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Strips, a cold gel bag for blows, thermometer, complete this kit.
Remember to check the kit every so often to see what we need, if there is something expired ... And another one of the tips to follow with the medicine cabinet at home is that it must be in a place inaccessible to children for their own safety, but well accessible and localizable to parents, who may need (hopefully not) to act quickly.
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