Camping First-Aid Checklist
In the outdoors anything could happen and you can get easily injured, so you gotta be prepared.
How to be prepared? it's simple, first always bring with you a first-aid kit and second learn to use it.
To make your own first-aid kit you'll find below a detailed checklist to choose from according to your personal needs.
Medications & Treatments
- Hand sanitizer
- Prescription medications
- Antacid tablets
- Lubricating eye drop
- Glucose or other sugar to treat hypoglycemia
- Throat lozenges
- Aspirin
- Poison ivy/poison oak preventative
- Poison ivy/poison oak treatment
- Aloe vera gel (sun exposure relief)
- Oral rehydration salts
- Loperamide tablets to treat diarrhea symptoms
- Injectable epinephrine to treat sensitivity
- Antifungal foot powder
Wound Coverings
- Liquid bandages
- Rolled, stretch-to-conform bandages
- First-aid cleansing pads with topical anesthetic
- Hydrogel-based pads
- Elastic wrap
- Hemostatic (to stop blood) gauze
Tools
- Standard oral thermometer
- Waterproof container to hold supplies and meds
- Irrigation syringe with 18-gauge catheter
- Whistle
- Cotton-tipped swabs
- Needle-nose pliers with wire cutter
- Small notepad with waterproof pencil or pen
- Steel sewing needle with heavy-duty thread
- SAM splint(s)
- Safety razor blade
- Low-reading (hypothermia) thermometer
- Medical/surgical gloves (nitrile preferred; avoid latex)
- Finger splint(s)
- Medical waste bag (plus box for sharp items)
- Magnifying glass
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