First aid for wounds at home

As well as your personal medicaments, your home first aid kit should include the following:

• Tweezers
• Disinfectant
• Dressings:
  • Gauze compresses
  • Bandage scissors
  • Plasters and bandages
  • Elastic roll plaster for securing
  • Triangular bandage
• Medicines to treat pain and fever
• Medicines for diarrhea and vomiting
• Products to treat insect stings and sunburn
• Electrolytes
• Thermometer