Medications, Lotions & Thermometer in the First Aid Kit

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"Important items too, are medication and you can buy, it's interesting because if you go to the drugstore you can always buy little sample packs of medication and those are ideal to put into the kit. So, here for example let's see what we have. The important things are antihistamine of course because if you go camping you want to have this available in case somebody has a reaction so here we have some antihistamine pre-packed here. We have for like headaches or any kind of pain you've got medication for that. Aspirin is good, aspirin is always good, you can buy them in little sachets like this or just little sample tubes and here is just another example of an antihistamine. So, medication absolutely I think you should include that into a basic first aid kit, very important. Lotions too, different kinds of lotions should be included into your kit. Here I have sunscreen, very important, sunscreen lotion. If you don't have the tubes or the sprays you can buy them in sachets like this just, this one is a 30 SPF, you can get various levels of SPF but as an example, just throw a few into the kit. Very important because as you know people go out into the sun without protection and that's my recommendation that you should always put sunscreen on when you're out in the sun. Other kind of lotions I think are important are insect repellent, if you go camping of course, insect repellent is very important. You can also get lotions that if you got slightly, you know, stayed out too long in the sun you want some aloe vera lotion to cool off your skin. Lotions that are for dry or chapped skin. You can buy these all in little sample sizes in the drug store, little sachets, just if you have room in the kit you should include those too. Okay, so if you think somebody has a fever, you want to take their temperature it would be good to have a thermometer to include in your kit. Now, this an old fashioned which I like. Rarely you see mercury thermometers now a days. Only because it's easy to break and the mercury can get everywhere and the mercury is carcinogenic so very rarely that can you buy thermometers like this really. You can buy more of the paper type of thermometers where you can just put that into your tongue and their disposable so they are disposable paper type that you can buy. I think most of the kits that you buy would, if they include the thermometers they'll include the paper type into it, but definitely include a thermometer into your kit. You never know when it comes into handy."