First Aid Kit

Anyone who goes over half a day from civilisation & a doctor should whenever possible be armed with an adequate first-aid kit & a fair working knowledge of how to use it.

This precaution he owes it to himself & to any who accompany him. No more than a reasonable measure, it can sometime mean the difference between life & death, also between an easily repaired
disability & one that last a life time.

The ready-packed commercial kit, excellent as they may be for many purposes, seldom are satisfactory for the individual who wanders far from beaten trail.

Those kits are made on the assumption that there is a doctor near by. Best to make one up following the list given.

US ARMY RECOMMENDS THIS FIRST-AID KIT STRESSING ONLY THE STRICT
NECESSARY ITEMS YET READY TO TREAT MAJOR WOUNDS & SHOCKS!

* Individual dressings (10cm x 18cm) or sterile gauze strips in plastic containers air-tight sealed.

* Compresses & Bandages (5cmx5cmx4cm) long.

* Bandage gauze compress style (8cm x 5 1/2 meters)

* 3 rolls of bandage gauze (2 1/2cm x 5cm x 5 1/2 meters)

* Bandage muslin compress style (95cm x 95cm x 130cm)

* 3 gauze strip with petroleum jelly/vaseline. (7 1/2cm x90cm) 100 adhesive strips tape (2 1/2cm x 7 1/2cm)

* 300 adhesive strips (2cm x 7 1/2cm)

* Eye drops & eye compress. Ethyl Chloride in spray.

* Ammonia solution ampoule (10 units of 1/3cc). Ammonia is very good against most insect bites as well as chewed tobacco

* Non-ferrous iodine 10% (14 gr.of 148cc)

* A mixture of salt & #bicarbonate# powder & surgical razor blades.

Desert F-D Kit:

The following items suggested by Dr. Hulsey a medical EXPERT IN
THE DESERT FIELD they MUST be kept in freezer bag.

A small box of foot powder. A snake byte kit. Here are some items for special cases some need prescription.

* Sea Sickness: Bonine

* Nausea & vomits: suppository.

* Diarrhoea: Opium dye.

* Indigestion: Antacid tablets.

* Head ache: aspirin, paracetomel, iboprofen

* Painful hurt: narcotic/ Sleeping pills that calm the pain even shocks.

* Insect bites Poison Ivy etc.: A lotion made of calamine base with 1 % of Phenol 1% of menthol 1% of hydrocortisone. Bee bites use meat tenderiser especially good for that.

* Tampons or sanitary towels

* Vaseline: Because you can eat it & cook with it etc.

*Garlic extracts capsules (natural food store) will drive away mosquitoes & theirs cousins.

* Salt pills & malaria pills are needed if you go in jungle/

* Water purifying pills. Halazone or equivalent

* Suntan lotion & lip cream to avoid cracking. (Vaseline) /Betadine- Vita-29 * Vitamin C pill. Cortisone in spray via sunburn.

* Mosquito & bugs repellent containing at least 40% NN *Diethyl-Metalo-luamide. Zomax & antibiotic such as Tetrex.

* Small pack of safety pins.

BASIC EMERGENCY FIRST-AID KIT:

* 1 triangular 40" sterile bandage with 2 safety pins =; direct application while sterile over wounds covering sterile dressing or slings padding splint & traction ties tourniquet.

* 6 assorted gauze roller bandages of different widths in individual sterile pkg. + 6 gauze compresses 3" square each in sterile packing = direct application over wounds + direct pressure to stop bleeding holding compress in place.

* 1 pkg. small adhesive compresses with plastic tape & plain sterile pads =: Cover minor wounds tape abrasion to guard against irritation & infection protect blisters draw cuts together in field

* 1 small bar detergent = clean hand before first-aid scrub wounds.

* 50 or less aspirins 5 grains = counteract pain relieve shock lower temperature. You may use stronger ones carefully.

* 12 sleeping pills For: help sleeping while in great pain.

* 1 small applicator fresh 2% tincture of iodine = to disinfect small wounds paint tick bites antiseptic.

* 2 rolls adhesive tape 2" wide = general taping holding compress in place emergency repairs.

* A set of needles & nylon thread: sewing clothes even skin.

* 2 to 4 Elastic bandages 4" wide = applied fully stretched over compress one or more or these as maybe necessary will usually control severe bleeding while unlike the dangerous and temporary
tourniquet (garrotte) permitting circulation. Furthermore these can be used anywhere while tourniquet will serve only for extremities.
Even here applications will many times permit the gradual & fairly immediate removal of already applied tourniquet. Good for strapping chest tight to exclude air in puncture wounds for bandaging of fractures & dislocation for pressure bandages when applied at half stretch for strains & sprains.

* 1/4oz. tube of antiseptic-anaesthetic eye ointment = soothing & treating eye injuries & minor infections deadening pain prior to removing embedded particle if distance makes this necessary treatment of pain & irritation of snow blindness.

* 1 good fever thermometer: average normal temperature 98.6 fluctuation of one degree not usually being regarded as significant.

* 1 small excellent scissors pointed. = In addition to regular uses these can after sterilisation be employed to spread in preference to slashing the incisions (indicated in snake bite treatment).
Such disruption of the tissue by blunt dissection although painful will more safely avoid injury to blood vessels tendons & nerves.

* 1 sharply pointed tweezers or splinter forceps = removing thorns & splinters. The latter may also be valuable in spreading open rather then cutting certain incisions.

* 2 curved surgeon's needles with ligature & needle holder = emergency sewing when sterilized as by boiling of wounds not easily closed by other means.
Cleanse wound first as by flushing liberally with sterile water. Pick out any debris and even scrub if that seems necessary. After sewing paint externally with tincture of iodine.

* Oil of cloves via tooth-ache but we also have seen a very good method that is via alcohol through nostril. The alcohol or cognac etc. is imbedded in cotton wool that you put in the nostril closing the other one, the patient breathes the alcohol that penetrates to the nerve behind the nose that
relieves the pain.

* Vitamin B. Complex & C in high potency stress doses. =: To replenish body needs being drained by severe accident or illness that set up a condition of stress that very quickly depletes the body of certain vital substances. Among which are the endocrine that are extremely valuable in the successful resolution of troubles. It is then important to maintain an adequate nutrition- emphasising B complex C & protein & these stress doses can mean the difference..

If you are going in extreme wilderness on canoe pack horse trip weeks from the nearest physician get a vial of 20 (1/4 grain) of morphine sulphate hypo tablets to be procured & used as directed.
These may be invaluable for such use as to counteracting pain as when a frozen foot has been thawed & treated & for controlling severe digestive troubles as by breaking up a cycle of vomiting.
Better for administration in extreme shock however maybe a box of 5 automatic injectors of morphine sulphate sterilised & ready for instant use or a smaller box of 5 collapsible-tube syringe of
morphine-tartrate injected as directed.

Any of these preparations may be taken by placing loosely under the tongue where not swallowed will be absorbed systematically into the general circulation the effect of one does last usually 4 hours. Duration & effect depends of course on the individual & the circumstances.
In any event dosage should be repeated only with the utmost care and caution and then ordinarily only once to every 4 or 6 hour.
* 1 Oz more of Spirulina that we stress as high energy Survival Food.

ITEMS FOR THE POCKET:

In a small plastic container you can put laxatives aspirins some Dexedrine sulphate pills. Or some other concentrated stimulant suggested by your doctor for ex: Spirulina when you or someone else may need additional sustained energy in a hurry.
Antiseptic for scratches ex: Merthiolate or iodine. REMEMBER those suggested items go with the other list**

IMPROVISED SPLINT:
Functional splint can be made from a thick live roll of birch bark peeled from a tree whose circumference is similar to that of the injured limb.

BETADINE:
Betadine is the safest treatment of various wounds, burns,
abcesses or cuts even gangrene. MAKE SURE you have it in first aid kit.