What should be in the home medicine cabinet?

Even if you think that you have very strong health, you need to know what should be in the home medicine chest. If something suddenly happens to you or your loved ones, the properly assembled first-aid kit may simply prove invaluable. A particularly thorough home first aid kit should be provided if your family has small children. After all, restless babies often suffer from cuts, abrasions, burns, colds and stomach problems.

Place for first-aid kit

Before answering the question about what should be in the home medicine chest, a couple of words need to be said about choosing a place to store it. This place should be easily accessible to adult members of your family, but not for the child. Remember that curious babes can pull anything and from anywhere, and so that you do not even notice. It often happens that mothers notice that the first aid kit is dismantled only when empty blisters from tablets are lying next to it. And then a real panic can begin, because it is not clear whether the child ate the medicine, or threw it out, or, worse, hid it in a more "secure" place for its future games. Therefore it is advisable to keep the medicine cabinet in one of the rooms, but somewhere higher - on the mezzanine, in the upper drawers of the sideboard or kitchen set, on the upper shelf of the wardrobe.

Storage of medicines in the medicine cabinet

As a repository of home remedies, it is best to choose a box or box, the dimensions of which would be convenient to decompose all the preparations so that they are not confused. And you can also buy a ready-made set of first-aid medicines, which are sold in pharmacies. Some prefer to allocate even a few boxes under the home medicine chest and in one store ampoules, bottles, vials, in the other - drugs in soft packaging, and in the largest - bandaging material, syringes, latex gloves. If, in addition to conventional medicine, you sometimes use infusions of herbs, then under phytotherapy, you should allocate a separate home medicine chest.

First aid kit: list

What should be in the home medicine cabinet? First of all, these are medicines and drugs that are used for pre-hospital care.

1. Dressing materials: sterile bandages (narrow and wide), non-sterile bandage, hygroscopic cotton wool, individual packages for dressings, napkins gauze sterile, rubber tourniquet for stopping bleeding.
2. Materials for treating burns, wounds, stopping bleeding, inhalation, rubbing, etc. preparations for external use: iodine, zelenka, BF glue, plasters (medical, bactericidal), manganese, ethyl alcohol, furacillin, sage, eucalyptus oil, camphor alcohol , Chamomile, cream "Rescuer" or ointment "Troxevasin", panthenol, vaseline oil, ammonia 10% solution,
3. Drugs for internal use: antipyretic drugs (aspirin or paracetamol), cardiac (nitroglycerin, corvalol, validol), analgesics (ibuprofen or analgin), spasmolytic (papaverine or no-sppa), festal or mezim (for the stomach), imodium, laxatives (castor oil , Regulax, senade), fixing (fruits of bilberry or bird cherry, phthalazole), against allergies (suprastin, diphenhydramine), poisoning (activated charcoal or enterosgel), antiemetic (tincture of peppermint), reducing stomach acidity (renni, maalox, Phosphorus gel) from a cold (Naphthyzinum, nazivin, sanarin), cough and "AntiGrippin" (koldreks, Terflu, solpadein, Fervex), expectorants (bronholitin, mukaltin syrup psyllium pektusin) from sore throat (strepsils, Geksoral).
4. Other: a thermometer, pipettes (for the nose, eyes, ears), wax paper (for compresses), rubber hot water bottle, tweezers, scissors, syringes of different volume, measuring cup, mustard, syringing.

You may think that all of the above, which should be in the home medicine cabinet, is too much. But believe me, this is only a minimal set. Suffering chronic diseases will have to provide the first aid kit with special medications, which they usually use to relieve exacerbations and attacks. Be sure to monitor the expiration date of the medicines stored in your medicine chest, and to ensure that labels are on all preparations. Tablets without packaging and medicines without labels can not be used in any case!