What's in your first aid kit?

[HoneyMonster]

Question's in the title really! What do you all have in your horsie first aid kit?

:smile:

 

[Roxy's Mum]

Cripes it's been a while since I looked in mine... from memory:

Gamgee
Bandages
Ready to go poulices
Iodine
Some kind of purple powder or spray or something
Scissors, safety pins etc
Slings (for the rider)
I believe a foil blanket thing (for the rider)
Surgical tape

I have a whole box of stuff but can't remember! Oh, and a really good horsey first aid book!

 

[liz_scarlet]

I need to build mine up.

Sudocreme (cause it does everything lol)
purple spray stuff
vet wrap
poutices
scissors
wee green plastic kit for humans with plasters etc

 

[eml]

Gamgee ( enough to make Robert Jones)
Rolls of cotton wool
Softban
Sterile dressings ( largest human size)
Vetwrap
Crepe bandages
Animalintex
Wound creme (antibiotic)
Purple spray
Icetight
Sachets of sterile water
Scissors
Thermometer
Sedalin


Can you tell we have accident prone TBs :wub:

 

[MissMare]

Thanks for posting this, I was thinking the other day mine could do with a re-vamp but couldn't tell what was missing :wub:

 

[HoneyMonster]

Thank you

I have a few bits and pieces but need to expand on it, especially now he's accident prone!

 

[Frances144]

Everything bar the kitchen sink, but only because it wouldn't fit. :ninja:

 

[popularfurball]

I have things which we are likely to use so:

Sudocrem
Flamazine (prescription)
Aloe vera gel
Eye wash
Sponge for eye cleaning
Scissors
sterile dressings
stretchy wrap
Some clean plastic for emergency poultice boot
Ice pack
Anti bacterial wash (like TCP)
Thermometer

 

[Wally]

Everything bar the kitchen sink, but only because it wouldn't fit. :ninja:

Off to get a bigger box!

All mentioned in the above posts, plus Lube jelly
Pee sticks,
String,
Gaffer tape
Danilon
Few sachet of equipalizone
Pevidine,
Bottle of antibiotocs
Needles (all colours)
syringes , catheter and ordinary of all sizes. (catheter syringes are great for basting meat and roast tatties) (clean ones BTW)
Stockholm tar
Old towels
Sterlie blades

 

[Kis Vihar]

Sudocreme
Betadine (Iodine)
Bandages (sterile and vet-wrap)
Gamgee
Poutice
Scissors
Tape
Stethescope
Imavarol
Sedaline
Buscopan
Algopyrin
Sterile syringes and needles
Bute
Green oils (wound gel)
Wound powder
Aluminium spray
Tetramycin (sp) spray
Kubotan spray
Paper towels
Neocidol
Neostomosan

(Some of that lot you can't get in the UK!)

 

[HoneyMonster]

Thank you everyone! There's such a vast field of different products it's just so difficult to decide what are the most important products! :smile:

 

[Trewsers]

Thanks to all the advice on here, I now have things in mine that I really need!lol. I have the following;

Thermometer (though still scared it will disappear up bums if I actually use it!!!lol)
Loads of cotton wool
Seleen shampoo
Sudacreme
Vet wrap
Animalintex for poulticing etc
Iodine
Hibiscrub
Aloe Vera Gel
Several sterile dressings
Flexi bandages
Keratex Mud Fever sheild powder
(I am sure I have a few other items lurking - but those are the main ones that spring to mind!)

 

[Joyscarer]

I'm guessing many people don't have a dedicated first aid kit and just buy things as they need them.

 

[Wally]

We have a very diverse 1st aid kit. It used to have 10 times more stuff when we had cattle and sheep, Still got various lambing/prolapse/bullet guns/ tranklements kicking about in the feed shed,