What is in your first aid kit?

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What is in your horse/human first aid kit?

I went over mine today and gave it a bit of a sort out, but just wondering what you all have/would recommend, perhaps through experience.

Currently:

Dressings of various sizes,
Poultice/animalintex
Vet wrap
Antibacterial wound gel
Hibiscrub
Cotton wool
Green oils
Scissors
Box of plasters (human!)
little 'housewife'- those cards with a needle and thread with some safety pins

So, tell me whats in yours! I feel like there isn't much in mine!
 
Animalintex
Cotton wool
Soft bandages
Sticky plaster bandage
Vetwrap
Duct tape
Hibi scrub
Purple spray
Silver/alu spray
Hoof infection ointment from the vet
Derma gel
Intrasite gel
Thermometer
Medical gloves
Scissors
Wound powder
First aid book

Nothing for people in the tack room, but the horse stuff can be adapted and I have a first aid kit in my car if needs be.
 
Not that much!

Duct tape
Nappies
Vet wrap
Boiled salt water
Melonin pads
Gamgee
Dermobian
Intrasite gel
Bute
Finadyne
AB sachets
Pentosan
Thermometer
 
Dusty85 said:
Ahhh duct tape. Ive go bandage tape but its not really the same.

Also- must remember to find a digital thermometer!

Thanks
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I did have P's vitals in a file with her passport and bits and bobs but didn't bother giving to S&J. Be interesting to see if her resting vitals have changed since then. I'll have to have a look and see if it's still the cabinet in the morning.

My first aid kit has everything that has already been listed, but also has two pairs of tights (great for containing tails if hind leg injuries, stuff tail into one leg and tie other leg to the rug at the withers...saves tail hairs getting into wounds on the hindlegs and also saves the worry of keeping a bandage on a tail for more than a couple of hours. I also have microfibre tape as it's is just so useful for so many little things. I have a large and a small syringe. Large for use in flushing out wounds and small for use in applying anything specific in liquid form. I think that's it. Oh, got a few flannels as well.
 
Mine is minimal, and everything that can get grubby once opened is stored in resell able bags.
Salt - made into saline solution to use to bathe all wounds. I keep a 2litre drink bottle with saline solution ready made. Bottle washed thoroughly and sterilised with baby bottle sterilising stuff. Salt also used instead of wound powder, doesn't cause proud flesh and also keeps flies off.
Epsom salts - for poulticing feet and to add to horses feed when grass goes to her head
Animalintex
Duct tape
Jelanet
Melon in dressings
Vetwrap
Gamgee
Scissors, both sharp end for cutting dressings, and round ended for trimming hair away from wounds
Two plastic plates for squeezing the excess water out of the Animalintex
Half an old inner tube and a bootlace for poulticing feet.
Fluffy hand towels, folded in half they make excellent under pads for bandaging
Selection of stretchy bandages.
Small bucket
Cotton wool balls
Thermometer
Nizoral, great for Mud Fever and itchy or scurfy skin
Activated Manuka Honey
Disposable nappies. These were amazing when my young horse ripped his hock open.
At this time I also introduced a 4litre pump spray with a long handled spray nozzle. Filled with saline solution it meant I could wash my youngsters injured leg from a distance and could easily follow him with it when he wriggled. Gets up a lovely fine pressured spray that cleaned debris and dirt away with ease. Saved me too from being kicked or knocked over.

Other stuff comes and goes. I like to keep it simple and rarely retain opened, part used ointments etc, they go off or become grubby with age.

All this is kept in a large plastic container with a lid that seals well.

Last but not least, Baby Wipes, no good trying to work on a wound with dirty hands or going to do the grocery shopping with old poultice and mud on your hands.
 
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Good idea about the tights- I used to travel D with tights on his tail, as otherwise he'd poo all over it!

Ive also always got baby wipes and old hand towels, nothing worse than not being able to rub your hands on something when they're cold wet and dirty!
 
Salt
Purple Spray
Derma gel
Vaseline
Sudocream
Animalintex
Gamgee
Vet wrap
Scissors
Clean towels
Clingfilm
Duct tape
Waterproof boots thing for turnout if he need poulticing
Buckets
Kettle
Bandages and bandage tape
Flamazine
Keratex mudguard powder
Baby shampoo / hibiscrub / washing up liquid for cleaning
My clippers are always charged and ready to go if needed.
Medical gloves
Gauze

My vets, farrier and my number are tape to the outside of the box.

I'm sure there's more but I can't remember off the top of my head as I so rarely use it. Touch wood.

I do need to invest in some basic farrier tools but haven't got round to it yet.
 
Currently? A bag of antibiotics and danilon and botanica cleanser. Have to say I've never really needed anything other than these lol

I do mean to get one done but I always forget.
 
I don't really know! I need to give it a good clean out and make a list of missing things and buy them.

I know I need some more poultices, but other than that I think it's ok. I've got a lifetime supply of vetrap (with another name) as my neighbour was a medical rep for a company that sold it and gave me all he had left when he retired!
I've also got a tube of sedalin in mine in case we need to knock one out urgently to clean a wound or something - we use it failry regularly to clean my boy's sheath (long story!) so rotate new and old ones so it doesn't go out of date.

Out of interest, those of you who use nappies as poultices, I assume you use them dry as they would swell too much if they were soaked? It's always confused me that one!
 
Reading others lists it's made me realise we have more in ours than I realised.

We also have sudocreme, Vaseline, anusol (yep that's right! Great for any cuts to the mouth), Epsom salt, normal salt, hoof boots for poultices, old feed bags for wrapping over vet wrap on feet, baby oil, variety of over bandages, abundance of towels, cold bandages and a flexi cold wrap thing.

There is always tea, coffee and got choc at the yard and biscuits!!

Hot water and kettle in the tack room too which is always handy.
 
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annagain said:
Out of interest, those of you who use nappies as poultices, I assume you use them dry as they would swell too much if they were soaked? It's always confused me that one!
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I put the poultice on the nappy and use the nappy as the first layer of padding. For my youngsters hock I cut the elastic from the leg edges, coated it with honey and used one tape to secure above the hock, and one below. Then I placed the gam gee and bandaged.
 
Tnavas said:
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I put the poultice on the nappy and use the nappy as the first layer of padding. For my youngsters hock I cut the elastic from the leg edges, coated it with honey and used one tape to secure above the hock, and one below. Then I placed the gam gee and bandaged.
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Doesn't the nappy draw all the moisture out of the poultice though?
 
Off the top of my head:

Stable bandages
Gamgee
Cotton wool
Arnica tablets & gel
Epsom salts
Aloe Vera
Essential oils
Silvastrol spray
Wound gel
Bute
Animalintex
Vet wrap
Nappies
Duct tape
Scissors
Thermometer

Possibly more, I've not looked for a while! I'll look tomorrow, I might need to add to the collection!
 
Hibbi Scrub
Cotton wool
Animal lintex
Menolin
Gelonet
Intrasite gel
Betadine spray
Saline pods
Vet wrap
Green oils
Cet Cream
Radiol
Silver spray
Epi Pen (for me)
Udder cream
Sulphur of flowers.
 
blimey! Everyone has amazingly sophisticated kits.

I have most of the basics but the other thing I include is a small tub of licky stuff in case I need to keep the horse entertained whilst I faff about with vet wrap and animalintex etc. Also keep a head collar and lead rope and a lunge line with the stuff.
 
Hibiscrub
Hibitane
5 x 500 ml iodine
vetwrap
nappies
duct tape
Sudocrem
Hoof to Heel
purple spray
dandy brush
hoofpick
Swiss army knife
scissors
the odd sachet of Danilon

All kept in a big flexi trug.
 
Dusty85 said:
What is in your horse/human first aid kit?

I went over mine today and gave it a bit of a sort out, but just wondering what you all have/would recommend, perhaps through experience.

Currently:

Dressings of various sizes,
Poultice/animalintex
Vet wrap
Antibacterial wound gel
Hibiscrub
Cotton wool
Green oils
Scissors
Box of plasters (human!)
little 'housewife'- those cards with a needle and thread with some safety pins

So, tell me whats in yours! I feel like there isn't much in mine!
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you asked for it
at the top of my head this list

ice boots currently in freezer
cold bandages
Tray
blue mat
latex gloves
towels
knee bandage
head camera
hose connections for legs cold hosing
ice boots
bowl
hock boots
laminitis ice boot
black wound powder
white wound powder
engemycin
electrical
duct tape
muscle liniment
bone liniment
aqueous creme
petroleum jelly
liquid paraphin
sandon antiseptic cleaners
spray tar
udder creme
suda creme
empty spray bottle
kerotex
easacough
hibi scrub
cornucresine
swabs
green gel
cribox
animallintex hoof
animalintex normal
various size nappies
epsom salts
leg ice
gamgee
lint cotton wool
jelonet
devils claw creme
gauze
thermometer
surgical gloves
metronidazole
betadine creme
anticeptc creme
urax creme
purple spray
sedaline
demobian
alovera creme
misc creme and antiseptic cremes
sole paint
sole paint
syringes
eye ointments
fuciden creme
scissors
misc wound items
vet wraps
bandages
vet band
softban
poultice boot
 
equine kit:
hibiscrub
vet wrap
duct tape
poultice
bute
cooling gel stuff
udder ointment (zinc & castor oil cream with an antibiotic added)
couple of synringes & sterile / clean clothes
sedaline
am sure there's a couple of other odds & bits in there

Human:
faceshield/mask
haemorrahage dressing
tourniquet
SAM splint
bandages
sling
plasters
 
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