First aid kit for hunting

The life of a person is full of surprises, both pleasant and not so. Therefore, any such surprise is better, of course, to be ready. Especially if you are a hunter and go hunting in the forest.

In order to maintain your health and possibly save your life, you should always go hunting with a first aid kit. As practice shows and the experience of hunters – there is much room for such a first-aid kit in your backpack, but the benefits that it will render you, if there is a situation that requires urgent medical help, can not be compared with anything.

Why in the forest need a first aid kit? It would seem that a stupid question, with an obvious answer, however, based on the fact that some hunters do not take the first-aid kit on their hunt and ignore its presence in their hiking backpack, we nevertheless decided to remind that such an attribute as a first-aid kit, very much needed and directly needed. After all, with the help of drugs that are part of your first aid kit, you can always provide yourself with first aid. In addition, if you have specific individual diseases, then perhaps your first-aid kit will one day save your life. After all, you are planning that you go hunting for 1 day, but, in the forest, anything can happen …

What should be the first aid kit?

When we say “first aid kit for hunt” – we do not mean the assortment of a local pharmacy, but the first necessary means and medicines that can save your life and keep your health. All this should be placed in a separate small handbag, which will be packed in a cellophane bag or plastic sealed container so that the medication does not get wet.

Undoubtedly the weight of the first aid kit is important. Try to minimize weight, for example, to exclude glass bottles from the first-aid kit, whether as an alternative to transfer medicines into plastic bottles. Less weight – greater resistance to external influences.

Periodically browse the contents of such a first-aid kit, expire drugs and replace them with new ones, medicines that you do not know from what and for what purposes – do not take it with you on the road.

Well, if you are an ulcer or a diabetic, do not forget to have your “personal” set of medicines always in your first aid pack.

Packaging First Aid Kit

There are several important rules that follow to observe when equipping the first aid kit.

Rigidity. An important requirement, which concerns the first-aid kit packing – it must be tough. That is, to represent a rigid container (from plastic for example), in which drugs are not exposed to external influences. The rigid container of the first aid kit will save your medicines from breaking (if it’s ampoules). Although you can use containers or bags for a first aid kit made of soft materials, but then you have to carefully pack the “glass” and follow and so as not to accidentally take the first-aid kit (in a backpack or on a bivouac, for example).

Tightness. The first-aid kit should be hermetically packaged, or have a sealed enclosure, otherwise you risk damping your medicines, anywhere on a roll or under heavy rain. If the medicine chest pack does not have a tightness function, then you can put it in the hermetic bag (these are used by tourists in river alloys). Or you can pack a first aid kit in a plastic bag.

Inscriptions on medicines. As a rule, boxes from tablets to the first aid kit are not invested. If you put the medicine separately from the boxes, then take care of duplicating the name and concentration of the medication and the expiration date (for example, highlight the inscriptions with a bright marker). In order not to cause confusion with the drugs.

Make a list of medications. Type the list and put it in the medicine chest. In order to be able to quickly and quickly orient in a set of medications in emergency situations.

Notable packaging or marking and easy carrying. The first-aid kit should be convenient to carry outside the backpack, that is, the package should have a shoulder strap or straps for attaching a first-aid kit to the belt. It is desirable that the first-aid kit has a bright color or a noticeable marking, then it can easily be recognized among other things.

What should be in the first aid pack

Well, now, before the list of what should be in the medicine chest of the hunter:

A dressing bag with wide bandages and rubber tow – it will not hurt to take a few pieces with you, just in case, if suddenly you have to put not one but several tight bandages.
Vata is also useful if you need to wash the wound or apply a bandage.
Drops Albucid or their analogue – such eye drops will help you with eye injuries and situations when dust or dirt gets into your eyes. Bury their eyes, it is necessary to follow the instructions.
Ketanov or another remedy for headache is effective and safe.
Paracetamol – who knows, maybe you will wet your feet, you will have a fever, so that by the end of the hunt you will not get sick, you will take this paracetamol and get home in a less healthy state.
Aspirin – if you are overcome with a fever, or an attack of angina, aspirin will help. By the way, 1 tablet of aspirin and 1 tablet of nitroglycerin (a medicine of cores) reduces the risk of developing a heart attack in the pre-infarction state.
Suprastin or other antihistamines – this will help with sudden allergic attacks
Motilium or domperidone – preparations from poisoning, nausea and vomiting, help with exacerbation of gastritis. Little did it happen – your hunting breakfast was spoiled or the infection got into the body, but stop the symptoms of poisoning and ease your condition, these drugs will help. Of course, someone can say that taking them with you on the road is unnecessary. But, it’s better to take and not to use than not to take and face the situation when they would be useful to you…
Activated carbon or other sorbents – use in case of poisoning. Take care of a sufficient amount of such a drug.
Maalox in bags – an ambulance to peptic ulcers and with heartburn. But, Maalox does not heal, but relieves pain, so, upon arrival home – do not forget to visit a doctor.
Smecta in sachets – in disorders of the intestine, alternating with sorbents, it is possible to reduce the manifestation of such a disorder to a minimum.
Captopril or kordipin – drugs from high blood pressure. Use as an ambulance. But, before applying them, it would be nice to measure such pressure.
Iodine, peroxide and other antiseptics.
Plaster bactericidal – wide and narrow in sufficient quantity.
Antibiotic – if you are extremely objective, then taking an antibiotic with you on the hunt – of course, a bit superfluous, but, in the case of a large open wound and getting dirt and dirt in this wound, in order to avoid complications, you can take an antibiotic.
Nitromint (Isoket aerosol) – if you go hunting for companies that are over 40, or are yourself such a mature hunter, in order to avoid situations with a heart attack, take in the first aid kit and these drugs. They have a quick effect in a heart attack.
Medical gloves are several pairs – they will not be superfluous, they will not occupy much space, but they can be useful for wound dressings.
Panthenol spray – with skin abrasions and burns, from insect bites.
Regidron – will save your body from dehydration during poisoning.
A small and sharp tweezers – well gets splinters and help get a tick.
Syringes – in case you have injections in your pharmacy, do not forget to put several syringes in the medicine cabinet.

Be sure to remember that before using any medications you need to read the instructions, and in some cases – consult with a specialist!

The above list of drugs and means for the first aid kit is an approximate set. In view of individual features – the composition of such a first aid kit can be adjusted. And, of course – let your first-aid kit always be with you, but you’ll never use it!