Travel First Aid Kit

Description

Travel First Aid Kit

Travel First Aid Kit by Travel Ideology is the ultimate in compact travel first aid for people who want to travel off the beaten path or for long term travel. It contains 77 pieces of essential travel first aid kit for travellers. This kit can be used to treat bleeding, burns, fractures, scratches, bites, dehydration, hyperthermia, etc and comes in a hard fully waterproof casing. The items inside ae protected against breakage and water damage. This is important for a go anywhere kit. If it is not constrained by anything else and you top over in a boat, it is designed to float.

The kit can be used to treat the following:
Wounds, Grazes, Abrasions, Scratches, Cuts, Splinters, Punctures
Strains, Sprains, Tears, Bruises, Dislocations, Fractures
Scalds, Burns
Eye Injury
Tropical Ulcers
Exposure to Cold or Heat
Stings and Bites

The perfect travel first aid kit

Preparing your travel medical kit (first aid kit) is an essential part of your trip preparation. Your kit needs to be created with your destination and personal issues in mind. It should cover pre-existing issues as well as items that are particular to your destination as well as the issues that you may face anywhere on your travels. We have put together a very good kit. However, it is not complete. Depending on your destination, you may need antibiotics, anti-malarial medication, etc which can only be obtained with a doctor’s prescription. There is space for them in the container. You may also need hand sanitizer, sunscreen, birth control, insecticides, mosquito netting, etc.

Who are we?

Travel Ideology sell and produce highest quality travel products. If it wears the Travel Ideology label, it is the best you can get in its class.

Travel First Aid Kit

This travel first aid kit is the best you will find for long term or remote independent travel.

• All stock is fresh for longest life.
• Designed by Bruce Josephs, a person who has travelled to over 90 countries and external territories on all continents.
• Designed for compactness and effectiveness
• The ultimate for people doing long term or remote travel
• Waterproof container not just water resistant
• Durable kit not just a wrap around so no breakages
• Australian owned and operated
• It offers hydrogen peroxide in a small spray bottle, increasing its effectiveness.
• It provides powder antiseptic. In tropical areas, creams are completely ineffective and without a powder, tropical ulcers become a major problem.
• The kit contains a cold pack for treating sprains quickly and effectively
• It provides a thermal blanket, handy in remote areas where cold can be a factor.
• It contains a compact thermometer for testing temperature quickly and easily

What’s included?

Kit Contains
Antiseptic powder 12.5g (1)
Bandage clip (1)
Bandaid (10)
Burn aid sachet 3.5g (2)
Cotton tips (10)
Crepe bandage 10cm x 4 m (1)
Gauze pieces 7.5cm x 7.5cm (3)
Heavy weight conforming bandage 10cm x 4m (1)
Hydralyte (3 satchels)
Ibuprofen (20 tablets)
Instant cold pack small 80g (1)
Itch relief cream sachet (1)
Micropore adhesive tape 1.25cm wide x 9 m (1)
Needle (1)
Safety pins (3)
Saline ampules (2)
Scissors (1)
Small spray bottle 6% hydrogen peroxide (1)
Strepsils (6)
Thermal blanket (1)
Thermometer (1)
Tweezers (1)
Wound closure strips (5)

Why I need a first aid kit?

When accidents happen and you are in the middle of nowhere or in a country where it is difficult to communicate due to language issues, you want to be able to get yourself out of trouble at least until you can see a doctor.

What should I take?

There is balance here between buying and carting around whole pharmacy and packing light. You need to make sure that you have enough to get yourself out of trouble.

So what do I need and why?

Antiseptic powder 12.5g (1)

When you travel in hot humid climates, there is a higher chance of tropical ulcers and antiseptic creams and liquids will just not stay put long enough to do any good. The powder absorbs the liquid and kills a wide range of germs, including bacteria, viruses, fungi and simple organisms and is used as an antiseptic for the treatment and prevention of infection in minor skin trauma including burns, cuts and other minor injuries.

Bandage clip (1)

This is the easiest way to hold a bandage in place.

Bandaid (10)

These fix small cuts and abrasions which will undoubtedly happen over a long period of travel. Cuts and abrasions are the most common form of injury. Band aids can also be used for helping with blisters.

Burn aid sachet 3.5g (2)

Burnaid is for minor burns, scalds and sunburn. It provides antiseptic cooling that cools and soothes and helps relieve pain.

Cotton tips (10)

Cotton tips and for cleansing, removal of debris and for applying ointments and hydrogen peroxide.

Crepe bandage 10cm x 4 m (1)

For when you have something a bit bigger than a cut, basic crepe bandages are useful for keeping small dressings clean and in place until you can get some medical attention.

Gauze pieces 7.5cm x 7.5cm (3)

Use it to apply pressure to a wound, clean an injury, soak up blood, help stop bleeding, and even form part of a basic dressing for small-to-medium wounds. The best type of gauze to carry in a first aid kit is individually wrapped sterile squares. This eliminates the need to cut them to size when you need them quickly and obviously makes it easier to keep the wound clean and sterile.

Heavy weight conforming bandage 10cm x 4m (1)

These are for larger injuries.

Hydralyte (3 satchels)

When you vomit, you lose essential salts. This will rehydrate you quickly.

Ibuprofen (20 tablets)

This helps with pain relief.

Instant cold pack small 80g (1)

To control and alleviate the gore and pain caused by strain, bruise, pull and burn, also can rapidly remove the pain and discomfort induced by fever, headache, toothache, mosquito bite

Itch relief cream sachet (1)

Relief from insect bites, tree scratches, etc

Micropore adhesive tape 1.25cm wide x 9 m (1)

Surgical tape is one of those essential emergency items for when you need to apply and secure gauze or a bandage to a wound, although plasters can do the same job if need be. It can be handy in other situations as well.

Needle (1)

Used for extracting splinters, ticks, etc.

Safety pins (3)

Used to attach bandages

Saline ampules (2)

You can use sterile saline solution to wash out eyes and clean cuts & grazes.

Scissors (1)

Useful for trimming gauze or bandages to size. Just be careful if you do carry scissors to ensure that your first aid kit goes in your checked bag when you are in transit or else airline security will take them off you.

Small spray bottle 6% hydrogen peroxide (1)

This is a great way to clean cuts.

Strepsils (6)

These aid with sore throat.

Thermal blanket (1)

Used to prevent/counter hypothermia.

Thermometer (1)

Used for checking temperature.

Tweezers (1)

Useful for pulling out splinters, getting out little bits of stone or dirt when cleaning a wound.

Wound closure strips (5)

Used to attach bandages.

Dimensions of kit: 21cm x 15cm x 7cm

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Disclaimer: The above is from my perspective. This first aid kit has been created after experience travelling to every continent and over 90 countries and external territories around the world. However, first aid is limited to my own travel experience. I am not a doctor and as such any advice is of a general nature only.