Family Kit

Every home and every car should have a First Aid Kit. The one in the car is especially important, particularly if you have young children: accidents often happen away from the home, playing sports, on picnics, on holiday. And if you have nothing with which to clean and patch your child's grazed knee, you are in big trouble!

Your kit does not need to be huge, and remember it only needs to get you through a variety of first aid situations - it does not need to include everything which your hospital emergency department would have! You just need the basics, and you need to replace them if and when they are used.






Our Family Kit contains:

• Sticking Plasters - for minor cuts and grazes.
• 3 packets of Gauze Swabs - for cleaning cuts and grazes, when soaked in saline or clean water. Also for drying the wound before applying a dressing. Cotton wool is not advisable as it tends to leave bits of fluff in the wound.
• 5 Sterile Wound Dressings - sterile dressings for larger cuts and grazes.
• 3 Combine Dressings - (1 large, 2 small) padded dressings for covering larger wounds. Useful with bandages as pressure dressings to stop bleeding.
• 1 Crepe Bandage - for bandaging bleeding wounds (as above); for bandaging sprained wrists, ankles, etc.
• 1 Triangular Bandage/ Sling (with safety pins) for elevating a sprained or broken wrist, broken fingers, etc. Elevation helps to reduce swelling and pain.
• Scissors - for cutting dressings to required size.
• Tape - for securing bandages and slings. Also for strapping broken or sprained fingers or toes.
• 4 x 10ml Saline Ampoules - for flushing sand or grit out of eyes. Also for cleaning minor wounds if clean water is not available.
• 5 Splinter Probes - single-use, hygienic probes for removal of splinters and prickles.
• Gloves - to keep the First Aider safe from contamination from blood and other body fluids.
• Leaflet - giving general guidance on First Aid.

Let us know your email address and we'll send you a Kit Inventory Form for ease of re-ordering.