more for elijah than us really, cos we are hard

i am thinking.....piriton, calpol, ibuprofen, hydrocortisone cream, eye bath....?

would you bother with plasters, bandages, slings?! i was thinking about savlon wash because more than anything eli is likely to get grazes and its good for washing stuff out, do you think it's ok to use on a little one?!

sweets (works wonders to take their mind of it) yeah we got everything in ours slings gauze, triangle bandages, scissors, safety pins, medical tape, stick on stitches (cant remember what they are called, antiseptic wipes and cream haha like i said everything The only thing we have needed was the sweets antiseptic wipes cream and plasters (only 2 or 3 times) Oh and of course half a pack of peas in the freezer (Just 4 bumps) XX

Sudocrem, calpol, wipes, plasters, tissues. Any injury/ilness that couldn't be dealt with using any of that would be a gp/hospital visit.

sudocrm, calpol, nurofen, plasters lots of sweets. and thats about it i think ?

Piriton, calpol, nurofen, cough medicine (just the chemist one), karvol, sudocrem, teething gels, bepanthum....

As much as I harp on about being prepared I dont have a first aid kit as such, just a kitchen cupboard that when you open a million boxes and tubes fall out of. I need to buy savlon wash, cotton wool balls and plasters as she is getting to the age now of grazed knees and elbows.

I dont carry much about with me - just piriton in the summer & calpol if im out all day and she has a cold/teething.

I wouldnt bother with bandages or stitches etc cause as penny says if its that bad you would go to A&E and you can always improvise with a jumper/towel to make a sling. Same with a bad cut - just use a damp tea towel as a compress instead of faffing about with stitches/gauze etc.

Oooh good post.

We have got most of the above, but we will be adding lots of gauzes, plasters, bandages and waddings after Aimee has her op, as she will probably be put on Warfarin which thins her blood so she will probably bleed out when she cuts herself (mucho fun!).

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dont have time to reply properly but just had a quick look - snoops wtf kind of emergencies do you have that cough medicine helps with????? punctured lung????!!!!!!! bbl to reply properly

Haha, well ok maybe I shouldnt have put that in my reply. What I mean is we just have a big cupboard full of all our meds and thats one of the things on Caitlins shelf (well its such a mess atm all the shelves are jumbled).

^ that's a medicine cabinet woman, i need a first aid kit! for the car and the holiday!

ok, i reckon now......calpol, ibuprofen, metanium, tissues, sweets ( for me!), wash stuff for grazes, plasters, dentinox, piriton, sudocrem and one of those bump things for the fridge cos he is always bashing his head? for holidays i mean...we have most of that stuff kicking about here.

Not much!

Plasters - she had one on her finger when she cut it ONCE, and it lasted 3 minutes
Germolene - she has this on grazes and asks for Keem when she has them
Calpol
Cough syrup
Sudocream - used for the lesser scratches, moles and scabs when Keem is requested
Hydrocortisone - never needed for her, but I have it for me anyway
Hayfever tablets, Dans but always good to have I suppose, never needed.
Snuffle stuff for colds

So yeh the only thing that gets regularly is germolene and sudocream!

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Plasters - she had one on her finger when she cut it ONCE, and it lasted 3 minutes

i thought that - i suppose me and john might need a plaster but as soon as eli saw the ones from his immunisations they were off - i cant imagine them lasting long!!

i do find have steri strips and things a bit weird too.....tbh i wouldn't want to be sticking my baby back together!