What do you keep in your 1st aid kit?

Only basic stuff!

Cotton wool
Antiseptic wipes
Purple spray
Sudocrem (used more of this on the horse in 9 months then I ever used on my three kids in their nappy years!)
 
Vet wrap, animallintex(sp), scissors, cotton wool, plasters for me, detol for me i think, purple spray, natural beeswax thing forget name but use to soothe bites.
 
i have:
vetwrap and normal bandages
gamgie
cotton wool
anamilintex
scissors
duct tape
wound gel
aloe vera gel
wound gel with fly repelent
hibiscrub
milton
sudecrem
proton gold
sun screen
linament
and prob loads more lotions and potions!!! :eek:
all kept in big plastic box at the yard...
 
vetrap
adhesive bandage
wound dressing (skintact)
wound powder
antibacterial gel
purple and iodine spray
animalintex
hibiscrub
cottom wool
gamgee
ducktape (to go over a hoof poltice)
epsom salts
arnica tablets and gel
kool pack
eye wash bottles (excellent for washing out wounds with clean water)
scissors

While everyone alway thought I was going over the top and being over prepared I've used everything in my first aid kit at some point.
 
I have:
Animalintex
Vetwrap
Vetalintex Hydrogel
Aloe Vera Gel
Purple Spray
Hibiscrub
Propolis Gel
Baby Wipes
Bandages
Sudocream

Going shopping for Latex Gloves, Thermometer, Dressing Scissors and some more sterile bandages :D
 
Oooh I have:

Cotton wool
Vet. Gamgee
Bactakil
Hibiscrub
Savlon Antiseptic
Savlon
Proton Gold
Sterile Saline Sachets
Silver plaster spray
Scissors
plus various other items whihc I cant remember :eek:

Jen
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Over here, if we are classed as knowing what we are doing, we are expected to treat far more things ourselves, than in the UK. For example, if a horse has colic and you phone the vet, they ask how much Buscopan you have given intravenously already!:eek: We have been taught SO MUCH by our Hungarian vets, we are lucky we have a fantstic vet who is willing to teach us as much as we want to learn. (Inlcluding allowing me to help with operations, and helping me dissect a horse's testicles after gelding, to learn more! :cool: Fascinating!)

So..In our first aid cabinet, we have:

Buscopan (injectable for colic)
Chosalgan (like Buscopan)
Algopirin (injectable painkiller/muscle relexant/temperature reducer)
Shotopen (Injectable antibiotic)
Noromectin (powdered antibiotic)
Bute in powder, syrup and liquid form
Copper Sulphate (for 'thrush-like' problems for horses we get in who have been standing in sh*t!)
Hoof-Protekt - German stuff for hoof injuries
Keratex hoof hardener
Green oils (antibacterial stuff)
Purple Spray
Betadine (wound cleaner/like Iodine)
Sudocreme
Dettol
Wound cream
TCP
Wound powder
H-10 wound ointment
Antiseptic cream
Saniphor wound spray
Some bizarre Hungarian wound creme with warnings on it about getting it on your skin...! I don't tend to use it!
Tick removing set
Stethoscope
2 or 3 thermometers
Hoofpick
Scissors
Tweezers
Cotton wool
HUGE amounts of bandages
Vetwrap bandages
Animalintex
Gamgee
Fybagee
Melolin patches
Tape
Eye drops (Hungarian stuff from the doctor - good for horses!)
Ventipulmin
Bisolvan (like Ventipulmin)
ACC600 - FANTASTIC Hungarian human tablets...given at high dosage for horses to cure snotty nose problems. REALLY good!
Louse Powder
Sedalin sedative
Herbal leg cooling gel
Tendonze cooling wraps
Radiol Muscle Embrocation
Virkon disinfectant
Benzol Benzoate
Fly repellent
Wound wipes
Udder cream
Surgical shampoo
Aluminium Spray (for wounds)
Turquoise Spray (for wounds)
Sponges
Note-book and pencil for recording wound/accident info
Box of various sized syringes (sterile)
Box of various needles (sterile)
Arnica tablets
Hungarian stuff for keeping flies off wounds/prevents maggotts! Ew!
Probiotic emergency powder
Ringworm wash
Hungarian sterilising wash stuff
Mud Fever lotion
Pevidine lotion
Easakof
Swabs
Cornucrescine
Vaseline
Heel to Hoof cream
Weigh tape
Various 'measuring scoops/tubs/spoons'
Plastic gloves
HUGE amounts of wormers!

(PLUS....there's a tube of cooled Bute in the fridge....!)

We had the visiting students inventory the first aid cabinet - they wrote everything down, then where exactly it is in the cabinet...e.g. "BUSCOPAN - TOP SHELF LEFT" - so anyone can find it quickly. I know what we've got, where it is and can replace it when used.

Bet you wished you never asked! ;)
 
FayeObs said:
Wow... that is ALOT !! Do you feel confident doing all that to your horses? i guess if youve been shown you probably will do ?
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I do now. :) I'm still reluctant to 'IV inject' unless I really have to, then I have to pull myself together and get on with it! I've been shown, and supervised doing everything I need to do, the vet would never expect me to do anything I wasn't happy with doing, or he hadn't seen me do before, so the vet knows I'm OK with things. Of course the vet always comes when we call him, but it saves valuable time and potential suffering for the horse, if we can do as much 'preliminary' stuff ourselves, and saves a fortune treating wounds etc! I can phone my best Horse Vet, he knows all my horses, and he advises over the phone before we decide if he really nees to attend. He is a long way away. There are local vets, but when it took 5 phone calls to 5 vets to try and find one who was sober one evening, to come and stitch a wound, THEN when one came out, he was too drunk to stitch....:eek:....we tend to stick with our expert vet!! ;)
 
I have:

Purple spray
Green lincoln gel
Sudo creme
Hand cream
Vet wrap
Animalintex (sp?)
Cooton wool
Hibiscrub

I have more, but can't remember anything else! :)
 
Everything, and about 3 of.

My first aid box is actually one of these filled to the brim.
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I also keep one in the car in the box below, as you never know if you'll need something at a show, or you might come across an accident on the way home etc
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