10 Essential Contents of a First Aid Box with their Uses
What is first aid
It is a first skilled treatment administered to a sick or injured person by a first aider which helps preserve life, prevent condition from worsening and enhance recovery. First aid can include cleaning minor cuts, scrapes, or scratches; treating a minor burn; applying bandages and dressings; the use of non-prescription medicine; draining blisters; removing debris from the eyes; massage; and drinking fluids to relieve heat stress.
There are many situations which may require first aid, and many countries have legislation, regulation, or guidance which specifies a minimum level of first aid provision in certain circumstances. This can include specific training or equipment to be available in the workplace (such as an Automated External Defibrillator), the provision of specialist first aid cover at public gatherings, or mandatory first aid training within schools.
Essential Content of the First Aid Box and their Uses
- A box of adhesive dressing (Plasters) of different sizes for covering small wounds. A roll of plaster (Cloth backed, plasticized or micro-pore tape). Blunt-ended scissors for cutting bandage of plaster.
- Antiseptic lotion to use with the cotton wool and antiseptic wipes.
- Cotton wool for cleaning cuts and gauzes.
- Some triangular bandages to several safety pins for making a sling or emergency bandage.
- Sterile dressings (field dressings) of various sizes for covering wounds. Sterile eye dressings with bandage attached for eye injuries.
- Aspirin or paracetamol preferably sealed in foil to give longer life.
- Anti histamine cream for insect bites and stings.
- Tweezers for removing splinters.
- Tubular gauze bandages for finger injuries and applicator tongs.
- Two or three crepe or conforming bandages for sprains and for wounds in awkward places such as elbows and ankles.
