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First Aid Kit in an Altoids tin
Posted by Norman_Oklahoma on December 14, 2023 at 9:05 amYoutube has been showing me an endless stream of “Altoids tin” emergency kit videos lately. It puts me in mind of an Altoids tin sized first aid kit for the surveyor. What would you think proper to put in such a thing? Here is a starter list:
1. 2 band aids
2. moleskin
3. antiseptic towelette
4. gauze pad (for larger cuts)
5. tape (for gauze pad)
6. tweezers
7. alcohol wipe (to clean poison oak encounters)
8. Pain reliever tablets
Keeping in mind that the kit has to fit into an Altoids tin what would you add (or subtract)?
Norman_Oklahoma replied 5 months ago 15 Members · 28 Replies- 28 Replies
little bottle of super glue
I left off butterfly closure bandages.
Never had a first aid kit in 37 years of surveying in the field. But if I did i would put in a can of skoal and a couple of ounces of green tea.
Take everything else out and fill it with advil 🙂
—Dan MacIsaac, PLSOr as I like to call it – I Be Lofen !
Me to Grandpa: Do you have any ibuprofen?
Grandpa: Back in my day we just died.
T. Nelson – SAM, LLCHonestly, guys. I’m 63 years old and I bet I haven’t taken 63 advil/tylenol/aspirin pills, total, in my life.
Haven’t had a wound yet I couldn’t doctor up with survey flagging.
WillyI’m old I need a lot more room than an altoid tin. My Tecnu bottle is just one first aid item I rely on. 🙂
I’ve had no debilitating injuries but lots of wounds, scrapes, punctures, a nasty hand break (that was a hospital visit). I really want my first aid kit around. All the trucks have one under the back seat.
The simplest would be to have a fully equiped ambulance, staff and all, following along on my days in the field.
“I’m old I need a lot more room than an altoid tin. My Tecnu bottle is just one first aid item I rely on. “
What I’m asking about is something one can routinely carry in a vest pocket to get you back to the truck, back home, back to medical services if needed. First aid, not comprehensive care.
Maybe some gauze and tape, nitro if a person needs it, an epi pin for allergic reactions, some antiseptic wipes.
I don’t really want aspirin, but some might.
Frankly, I carry duct tape and paper towels/TP everywhere I go and use those for band aid type wounds. A pocket knife and I always have some antibacterial liquid.
Throw everyting out and keep a pint of Jim Beam as an antispetic and pain killer.
My kit has evolved over the years, but a few things are consistent. Most have been mentioned. A few that have not…
Eyedropper bottle of peroxide and another with betadine
Compression bandage
Quick clot
vicodin
Cravat and parachord
I’m curious as to how a cravat fits into this conversation?
Jeff D.Not the dress item, the one carried and worn in the field by military folks. It’s a simple triangle of light cloth that makes a perfect sling or tourniquet. They come folded and vacuum packed, which means they take little room and are clean when you unpack them.
Cravat, cravate or cravats may refer to:
- Cravat (early), forerunner neckband of the modern necktie
- Cravat, British name for what in American English is called an ascot tie
- Cravat bandage, a triangular bandage
- Cravat (horse) (1935–1954), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Cravat Regiment, a guard of honour in Croatia
- Croats (military unit), 17th-century light cavalry forces also known as Cravats
- La Cravate, 1957 French short film also known as Les têtes interverties
- Nick Cravat, stage name of American actor and stunt performer Nicholas Cuccia (1912–1994)
- The Cravats, an English punk rock band formed in 1977
- Yancey and Sabra Cravat, protagonists of the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron and its two film adaptations
Yeah, I did something like that a couple years ago. My brother gave me a gardener’s knife, which is a cross between a trowel and knife. I whacked at a weed that was in the way and overshot to hit a finger on the other hand. Flagging was the best bandaid I also had.
I figured I would have to learn to type with it permanently not responding, because the cut looked pretty deep, but fortunately it did recover.
.This ine went through leather gloves and into the thumb. I kept re wrapping it everyday for a week. I didn’t think it would ever seal up as well. Me I was scoring the plastic inserts for aluminum caps. As we were given the wrong size for the rebar we were told to use. Yeah it didn’t work. I tried and the whole time i said this is not going to work well and probably cut myself and I did. Now I am just mad i messed up a good pair of farm work gloves. I had just purchased 😂.
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