Home first aid kit

[dagobert]

Hope ya dont keep your condoms in the refrigerator!

[billd766]

Bill

Good Googling, that's the guy.

I'm not a motorcycle type and I think the kit is too large to carry along, on a bike, anyway, but I keep it in my car. Handy for home or the road.

BTW, the contents come loose in a box so you'll need to provide your own bag or nicer box.

Mac

Labelled ziplock bags work well and you can put directions of use in English and Thai as well.

[billd766]

A bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin!

Excellent chioce. Great for internal use and will clean wounds at a push.

Medicinal rum or brandy works better.

[billd766]

Thanks for the thoughts on additional items guys.

I was up in the "big city" of Khampaeng Phet this morning and I couldn't even find anywhere to buy medical scissors or paraffin gauze dressings (for burns and exposed toes with no toenails) and I went to at least 5 pharmacies.

Medical Scissors.doc

[dagobert]

Paraffin gauze dressings, Avaliable in most pharmacys "BACTIGRA"

[billd766]

Paraffin gauze dressings, Avaliable in most pharmacys "BACTIGRA"

Thanks for that

[boughtoncestrian]

I am badly affected by mozzy bites.

They itch like hell and I can scratch until there is a huge bloody wound before the itching stops.

BUT.

1) Take one mug of hot tea, coffee, even hot water.

2) When the temperature is such that you can just tolerate it, press it onto the bite for a few seconds.

This action destroys the mozzy proteins in the spit they inject you with when biting and the itching stops instantly.

If necessary, put the hot mug back again for a few more seconds.

The trick is to seriously heat the skin in the bite area, to a reasonable depth.

I had read that placing a hot spoon on the bite would do the trick but there were too many variables for me.

The hotness of the spoon.

It´s thickness and heat holding/giving capacity.

The mug has a huge reservoir of heat and you have ample time to judge when it hits the "Snow White point", "just right"

I used to take Benadril or apply Fenistil, both effective but now unnecessary.

[boughtoncestrian]

To laislica a much easier way for mozzie and red ant bites is to apply tiger balm or gold cup balm after a couple minutes itching and soreness gone

[laislica]

To laislica a much easier way for mozzie and red ant bites is to apply tiger balm or gold cup balm after a couple minutes itching and soreness gone

Thanks, but.

Not in Thailand at the moment, no Tiger Balm.

Hot mug still works in a few seconds though.