First-aid Kit for Travel
If you are going to leave on a trip, take a first aid kit. This – the doctors of family medicine. Especially it may be necessary when traveling to foreign countries. In a country where you go, can be difficult to seek medical care or to buy medicines. In this article, experts Embassy Medicine acquaint you with a list of drugs that need to take with you.
Doctors Family Medicine recommends that you always have on hand the most necessary in the event of any problem which can be a headache, diarrhea, heartburn, gas, gastritis, dizziness, nausea, insomnia, colds, insect bites, wounds, etc.
Abroad without a good knowledge of foreign languages can be difficult and expensive to seek medical help, but also difficult to buy drugs that they have other names.
The composition of medical kits, which you take with you will depend on the duration of the journey. It is not the same thing to go somewhere for a couple of days off or travel a couple of weeks.
Patients with chronic diseases should take medication for the duration of his absence at home. It will not stock up more than a doctor’s certificate confirming that you have to take certain medications. It may be asked to present at the airport when boarding a plane or at the customs.
For entry to some countries require a certificate of vaccination against tropical diseases such as yellow fever (for Africa), etc. Therefore, when planning a trip, consult on this subject with your doctor of family medicine and do it well in advance, because many of the vaccines should be introduced for a few months before pozdki. Dear readers, if you read this story not on the website of the Embassy of medicine, it is taken there is incompetent.
How, in terms of specialists in family medicine, should be part of first aid kits for travel?
Basic medicines:
- Analgesics (paracetamol, metamizole).
- Anti-inflammatory drugs – ibuprofen. It may be useful in case of toothache, backache, bruising or other trauma. You can take a similar action voltaren ointment.
- Anti-diarrheal remedies – Loperamide.
- Antihistaminic (allergy) – tavegil.
- Medicine against nausea, which can be applied, if you do not put “bumpy” in the plane (primperan).
- Antibiotics, if you are not allergic to them. They are needed in case of colds, flux or cystitis: amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin.
- Anti-malarial drugs, if you go to a country where there is an opportunity get this unpleasant and dangerous disease.
Stocks of materials for first aid in case of accidents and injuries. Take bandages, adhesive tape, a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and iodine. You will catch the thermometer.
In your medicine cabinet travelers have to be repellent, sunscreen, money for water disinfection (chlorine tablets, chlorine solution of food, iodine), condoms, sterile disposable injection needles.
Bag for kit should be light and strong. Keep it in a cool dry place and protect from the sun. Periodically check the expiration date medication. Remember that piercing and cutting items can take (in hand luggage) on the plane.