The first aid kit should be in every home. Having completed it correctly, you can have time to provide competent first aid before the arrival of an ambulance or a local doctor. What medicines should be in the home medicine chest of each family?
Dressing
The first aid kit should include dressings:
- cotton;
- bandage;
- patch;
- gauze wipes;
- burn;
- elastic bandage.
These items are necessary for dressing, applying compresses and fixing limbs with bruises, fractures, abrasions and paresis. Do not do without them and in cases where it is necessary to stop bleeding.
Medical devices
A thermometer is what should be in every home medicine cabinet. The rise in temperature is a symptom of many diseases. Having a thermometer, you can quickly check whether everything is in order with health.
People with circulatory disorders and diseases of the cardiovascular system should also equip their first-aid kit with a tonometer. The indications of this device will help you understand whether you need to take medicine or seek medical help.
Anesthetics and antipyretic agents
In the list of drugs that are part of the home medicine chest, you need to include several pain killers and antipyretics. It can be:
- Ibuprofen;
- Paracetamol;
- Nimesulide.
They differ in their anti-inflammatory activity. If one of them does not liquidate the temperature or pain, after a while you can take another kind of medicine.
A complete list of what should be in the home medicine cabinet to relieve any spasmodic pain:
- Drotaverine;
- But-shpa;
- Spazmalgon.
These drugs will help to eliminate both spasms in the abdominal cavity, and pain sensations that arise when vascular tension in the head. In the medicine cabinet you need to put and pain medications Ketanov and Tempalgin, which will remove dental or menstrual pain, as well as ointments, to relieve various muscular pains - Fort-gel or Fastum-gel.
Wound healing preparations
Most often, the list of antiseptic medicines for home medicine kits include green. But for the disinfection of wounds, there are more effective drugs, for example, Chlorhexidine. Unlike greens, this product does not dry the skin. With small bleeding and to treat shallow wounds, you can also use 3% hydrogen peroxide.
Burn is a dangerous injury that is difficult and long to heal, but its treatment will be faster if properly treated immediately after trauma to the skin. That's why every medicine cabinet should have Panthenol or Solcoseryl (better in the form of a spray, since the ointment on such a wound is painful to apply).
Medicines against symptoms of ARVI
Pershit throat, there was a cough and the temperature rose? Most likely, you have ARVI. To cope with the symptoms of such a disease in the medicine cabinet must be a variety of antipyretic agents, as well as:
1. Antiviral drugs. It can be:
- Grogrinosine;
- Amizon;
- Acyclovir.
2. Vasoconstrictor drops, which in a short time will reduce the stuffiness of the nose:
- Nasol;
- Naphthysine;
- Knoxprey.
3. Sprays from sore throat. It is best to use:
- Inhaliptus;
- Proposol.
Sorbents in the home medicine cabinet
Sorbents - this is what must necessarily be on the list of medicines for a home pharmacy, because intestinal infections, acute and chronic poisoning and other digestive problems occur in humans
- Smectu;
- Sorbeks;
- Carbopect.
Such funds will cope with alcohol-food overload of the gastrointestinal tract, poisoning with industrial toxins and severe poisoning, accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea.