First-aid kit on holiday: what to take on holiday?

Holiday, especially summer - a long-awaited event, it would be a shame in a fall from some ailment. To reduce the risks will help to compiled traffic kit .

What does it have to be? If you have any chronic diseases - for example, chronic gastritis or gastro - check with your doctor, what specific drugs to help you easily digest food and unusual that grab for quick help themselves in the event of acute illness. Collect medicines for vacation   under his guidance.

In that case, when you are relatively healthy, it makes sense to collect the road first aid kit   a simple scheme based on the most common ailments: minor injuries, food poisoning, toothache and headache, as well as sudden temperature or spasms.

• Antiseptics and agents from injury. The most simple and reliable - markers with iodine and brilliant green, alcohol wipes ("injection") in individual packages, as well as several patches of different shapes and sizes. Keep in mind that the bleeding wounds in any case can not be processed "sanitary" hand gels. In a pinch, you can wipe with a damp cloth antibacterial wound, but better to just wash clean with soap and water and disinfect ... well, at least the spirits.
• From food poisoning which is easy to take the activated charcoal (it is simply more convenient to carry and weighs less than, for example, gels, sorbents), and at least one bag of dry powder for rehydrated solution. Also there is the old Soviet tool that can save the day in case of emergency - an ordinary chloramphenicol. However, before you put it in the road first aid kit, check with your doctor to see if you have what some contraindications to it. Also good are struggling with food infections (as well as cystitis, if befall) furan drugs - for example, or furatsilin furadonin.
• Painkillers take proven - those that help you for sure. Same with antispasmodics.
• Drugs temperature and general malaise should be universal, that is suitable for receiving at any time and on a wide range of symptoms. Here, too, we must be guided by their own experience and choose according to him the means by acetylsalicylic acid or acetaminophen, or paracetamol or ibuprofen. Only one.
• If you're going too fast jet lag - think, if you do not need sleeping pills or drug melatonin (sleep hormone). In countries with very particular cuisine, it may be worthwhile to take digestive enzymes. Collecting medicines for vacation , And remember about alcohol - may have to take medication for a hangover.
• In any case, put in the road first aid kit   anything from allergies and - attention - a modern broad-spectrum antibiotic. It must consult your doctor after you explain in which country you are coming, so he appreciated the risks and choose the optimal drug.

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