To ensure that your vacation is not overshadowed by any health problems, it is necessary, together with things, to collect a first aid kit on the way to the sea. This measure is necessary so that you at the place of rest could provide themselves and their loved ones with first aid on their own. After all, not all rest in resort areas, someone likes to go to the sea "savages", away from people, and someone goes to the countryside.
Why do you need to collect a first aid kit on the road to the sea?
It is a well-known fact that local emergency resorts have to wait for an ambulance for a very long time, boarding houses are located in the coastal line away from medical points and hospitals, etc. And it often happens that due to climate change, water, etc., immunity may weaken, join virus or infection, diarrhea or indigestion begins.
Therefore, if you have caught a cold at the sea, hurt your foot, eaten a shish kebab or ate stale food, you can always help yourself and restore your health. But when the cases of the disease are more serious or life-threatening, then whatever your first-aid kit, you need to go urgently to the clinic. Fracture without properly impregnated gypsum does not grow together, with strong intoxication, some coal can not be saved. But with a common cold, diarrhea, conjunctivitis or calluses, you can do it on your own. The main thing is to know what necessary medicines you need to take with you.
List of medicines for first-aid kit on the road to the sea
1. Dressing means:
- bandages are sterile and elastic;
- sticking plaster.
2. Antiseptic agents:
- hydrogen peroxide, better in a plastic bottle;
- iodine or zelenka.
3. Anesthetic and antipyretic drugs:
- antispasmodic (Nosh-pa or Spasmalgon, etc.);
- Citramon;
- Ibuprofen, Solpadein, etc .;
- Paracetamol.
4. Remedies for GI disorder:
- Activated carbon;
- Smecta, Enterosgel;
- enzyme preparation (Mezim, Festal or Pancreatin);
- antidiarrhoeals (Loperamide and others).
5. Antiviral medicines:
- candles Wiferon;
- tablets Groprinosine, Isoprinosin.
6. Antihistamines:
- Claritin, Tavegil, Suprastin, Eden, etc .;
- gel Fenistil.
7. ENT-funds:
- drops in the nose (Nazole, Eucazoline, Galazoline or Naphthysine);
- from a pain in a throat (Hepilor, Orasept, Tantum Verde, etc.);
- Drops for eyes and ears (Cypropharm on the basis of an antibiotic).
8. Ointments:
- ointments or gels with diclofenac from sprains , bruises, pain in trauma (Diklak-gel, Voltaren, Olfen, etc.);
- ointment Rescuer from wounds and bruises;
- ointment with panthenol from burns, including sunny (Panthenol, Bepanten, etc.).
This is the main list of essential medicines for the first aid kit for a vacation at sea. Of course, the list can and should be supplemented and adjusted depending on whether you have chronic diseases, personal intolerance to certain medications and other indications. And if you are going on vacation with children, then it is necessary to take into account the needs of the first aid kit.
When you go to the sea abroad, the list in the medicine cabinet can change. This is due to the fact that not all drugs can be transported. For example, Analgin in many countries is banned, so without having a prescription for him to take this drug is not worth it. For medicines in the form of liquid, there are also limitations. Vials should be no more than 100 ml, and a maximum of 10 pcs. the total volume of all liquid medicines should not exceed one liter. In addition, they must be packaged in a separate sealed package. But if you need more of this medicine according to the doctor's testimony, then you need a prescription translated into English. If you are taking several packages of one medicine, since you need to take them every day, then take care of the prescription from the doctor, too.
You do not need to take the entire first aid kit for a trip to the sea with a list of medications in hand luggage, take with you only the drug that, for example, you should drink at the time of flight or travel. Put the rest in your luggage, so you will have fewer questions.