What are the first items in your packing list? Clothes, toiletries, electronics, and identification always on top of the list. And what about safety and health emergency related items?

Travel Medical Kit

On trips is better to keep with a kit. At home, we intend to treat minor injuries like using plasters, painkillers for headaches, medicals when feeling sick. While traveling you can never know what will happen on the road.

A small, portable kit with the essentials should be carried with you at all time. Large kits may be left at the accommodation in the suitcases. From my experience, I suggest that you create a mini bag to carry with you, other extras you can leave them at your room for when needed to replace the used ones from the mini bag.

Why a travel first-aid kit?

1. Minor Injuries – This helps to treat people quickly and effectively the minor injury until seeking for a medical professional treatment.
2. Travellers with chronic medical conditions such as asthma, thyroid, allergies, high blood pressure, diabetes or any other problems. – It is important and necessary to carry enough of your home medications with you on the trip.
3. Travel kits save you time to find a local pharmacy and have more time to spend on “fun time”

What’s in the travel first-aid kit?

1. Prescription medications

These are taken daily prescribed by your doctor if applicable or the person travelling has chronic medical conditions.

2. Medicals for common illness /pain killers (Headaches, cold and flu, stomach ache, diarrhea and others)

Paracetamol or any situated brand is usually sufficient for pain relief, headaches and minor pain. Cold and Flu pills will help light influenza and fever treats. For diarrhea, your pharmacist may suggest using oral rehydration solution to prevent dehydration. They are dissolved in water to replace salts.

3. Travelling pills

Anti motion sickness (good for car and boat rides)

4. Antiseptic wipes

Used for cleaning infected areas or open wounds

5. Antibacterial cream

This helps any cuts and scrapes you get. This will help faster as well as prevent any possible infections. This is only if the injury is small and to use it in emergency until professional assistance. Always seek from a professional medical attention for serious cuts.

6. Antibiotic Ointment

This is used to prevent skin infections caused by small cuts, burns.

7. Wound cleaning

Alcohol free wipe, soft cloth or gauze pad to help you treat the wound

8. Tablets such as: salts, vitamins and others –

Helps boost the energy for a long day travelling

9. Blister strips

Helps for extra walking or hiking, blister strip help from suffering ongoing pain.

10. Plasters

To cover affected area to prevent infection

11. Bandages

For when having something a bit bigger than a cut

12. Sterile dressings

These are used to cover wounds

13. Bandage tape

It is essential item when you need to apply on the bandage or dressing.

14. Tweezers

This helps to pick up objects that are too small. It is useful for pulling out splinters, dirt from the wound.

15. Safety pins

These are used like the bandage tape, to fix bandages.

16. Mini scissors

This is almost always found in any standard commercial first aid kit, although you can buy them separately. This is obviously used for cutting extras from the bandages or dressings.

17. Condoms

Staying sexually safe is important for hygiene and contraception. It can be used to store water: it has to be non-lubricant. Never tested this but I know it can be uses for other options than the first that comes to mind.

18. Insect repellent

This reduces the risk of insect bites especially in warm countries or near nature environment.

19. Insect bite treatment

This helps to improve and treat the insect bite in few hours or days.

20. Anti-itch cream

For small skin reactions or rashes

21. Sunscreen

This protects your skin from getting a sunburnt. At least it has to be SPF15 sunscreen; the more the SPF the better.

22. After-sun lotion

Apply after sun, after bathing and staying a long day in the sun. This helps soothing your skin if burnt from sun.

23. Eye drops for dryness and for infections

Helps from irritations and dryness of the eyes.

 

Always ask your pharmacy or doctor for more tips. Items carried with you are also depends on where is the destination and for how long is your trip. If you have never taken any medicals from the above always ask for professional assistance in case of medical history or condition.

Important: Always carry any medication in its original packing when you are travelling. This is in case if any custom officers need to check it.

Tried and tested and it works for me very well. Below is a link where you can buy those items and like that you can help me continue to make articles for you 🙂 (P.S this first aid box only have it’s basic stuff.  You always has to buy certain medicine/pills from your pharmacy.)

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