First Aid Kit For The Car: A Youth Sports Essential

With all the travel involved in youth sports, a well-stocked first-aid kit for the car is a must.  

A well-stocked car frirst aid kit should contain:

• Adhesive bandages, sterile gauze pads in variety of shapes and sizes and medical tape for cuts and scrapes
• Pre-treated alcohol swabs
• Butterfly closures for cuts too big for Band-Aids®
• Triple antibiotic ointment (Neosporin® or generic equivalent)
• Nontoxic surfactant (sodium chloride or Shur-Clens®)(used instead of soapy water)
• Cotton swabs (Q Tips®)
• Moleskin (don't pop blisters)
• Chemical ice packs
• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory pain medications (Advil®/Motrin®/Aleve® or generic equivalent, not Tylenol® which doesn't treat inflammation)
• Sunscreen with SPF of 18 to 25 (anything with higher SPF is overkill)
• DEET-free insect repellant (Nutrapell, Coleman, etc.)
• Anti-itch (cortisone) cream (although ammonia diluted with water also does the trick)
• Synthetic gloves
• Triangle sling and finger splints
• Eye wash
• Antiseptic towlettes
• Scissors;
• Tweezers
• Extra rescue inhaler
• EpiPen® for those children with severe allergies