How To Pack A First Aid Kit For Travel

Currently volunteering with twelve village projects in twelve countries over the march of twelve months, The Global Citizen Projects Charyn Pfeuffer explains how to container the initial assist container when roving as well as volunteering prolonged term.First Aid

Photo by Robert Thomson.

From Charyn

People frequently ask me what we container in my transport initial assist kit. we tweak the contents of my container depending upon the destination, accessibility of curative supplies as well as foreseeable medical services.

Believe it or not, everything upon this list fits in to the sincerely small zipped container, with the exception of prescription drugs, which we regularly put in my carry upon luggage only in case.

Since most of my volunteer projects for The Global Citizen Project are in impoverished places, we devise to take this locked as well as installed chronicle of my transport initial assist container to all the destinations.

Once there, we can pick as well as select what we might need upon the daily basis as well as stash the reduced list of equipment in my day container (in the Ziplock bag to play it weather safe). So far, we havent run in to the situation where Ive needed something not upon this grandmaster list.

Since Im regularly fervent to urge my Girl Scout-like packing as well as transport skills, greatfully share any cant-live-without initial assist equipment we should add to my kit.

* Ace bandage

* American Red Cross Adult CPR with First Aid card

* Antifungal cream

* Aspirin

* Bandaids (various sizes)

* Benadryl (pill as well as cream form)

* Cloth tape

* Condoms (if sexually active)

* EpiPen

* First assist antiseptic

* Gauze All Purpose Dressings (4 x 4)

* Hand sanitizer

* Ibuprofin

* Insect repellent (EcoSMART when malaria! /dengue heat isnt an issue; Bens Deet when it is)

* International Certificate of Vaccination (a.k.a. the Yellow Card)

* Latex gloves

* Lighter

* One distance fits all cough/cold medicine

* Pearls Probiotics

* Prescriptions (Cipro for diarrhea, Ambien for insomnia, Doxycycline as the malaria preventative, altitude meds when necessary)

* Scissors

* Sunscreen (since Im upon Doxycycline for the year as well as object attraction is the side effect, we container SPF 50 as well as above)

* SteriPEN

* Superglue

* Syringes (various sizes, prescribed by transport doctor)

* Temparin One Step Lost Filling Repair

* Tweezers

* World Nomads transport insurance

Community Connection

Do we know we could turn food in to initial aid? In case we do fall sick while traveling, here are 10 usual transport health problems as well as how to handle them.

My initial assist transport container consists of the couple rope aids, as well as maybe butterfly repellent if we remember. Whats in your initial assist container when we travel? Tell us below.


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