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The "ultimate" first aid kit, according to The Preparedness Experience, contains the following long list of items:
Priority Supplies For Your Kit
- Ace bandages
- Abdominal pads
- Silk medical tape roll
- Benadryl – always good to include even if you or your party doesn’t have any known allergies
- Imodium – highly underrated
- Triangular bandages
- Saline eye drops
- Rolled gauze
- Butterfly bandages – useful for deep lacerations
- Safety pins – good for keeping dressings and bandages in place if you need to get creative
- Moleskin – versatile
- Advil or Ibuprofen
- Gloves – these will help you stay clean and safe when treating wounds
- Gauze pads
- Trauma shears
- Needle & thread – stored in isopropyl alcohol
- Wound irrigation syringes
- White petroleum jelly or Vaseline – very versatile (keep in a small container)
- Chest seals – necessary for sucking chest wounds (more on that here)
- Antibiotics – Bactrim or Doxycycline
- Thermometer
- Aspirin
- Nasopharyngeal airway – 28 FR
- Z-fold gauze
- Hydrocortisone cream
- Tweezers – always useful for wound care
- A reference guide – this will make sure you’re doing things the right way and don’t make mistakes
- SAM splint – a portable and convenient splint option that survivalists love
- Pressure dressing – a must-have for wounds on the arm or leg
- Caffeine pills – good for situations where you need to stay awake and get to your destination or keep watch
- Coban roll – an easy to use wrap for limbs that won’t come off easily
- Plastic cling wrap – ideally two inches wide
- Tourniquet – you can make your own with other materials/objects but these are easy to store and do the best job
- Acetaminophen aka Tylenol
- Emergency blankets – another essential inclusion
- Band-aids – duh
- Pepto-Bismol pills – easier to store than the liquid you get in stores
- Miconazole – for treating fungal or yeast infections
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