With the fall sports season about to begin - and with it, a lot of travel to away games and tournaments, millions of American families will be heading out on the road.
Before your family hits to the highway, make sure you have a well-stocked first-aid kit in your car.
First aid kit contents
- 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
Updated August 18, 2013
