Travel First Aid Kit | Travel Medicine Essentials

Hello, today I'm going to show you what's in my travel medicine and first aid bag. At least once a year I like to go through it and make sure that everything's in date and nothing is topping up and that seemed like the ideal opportunity to show you what's in there. These are just the essentials you might need for a minor illness. If I can't treat a problem with something in this bag I'll either go to the local pharmacy or seek medical help. I just take a strip of tablets to save on packaging. I don't recommend you counting your tablets into small pill pots. The last thing you want after you've been traveling all day, you're tired and there's a possible language barrier is a conversation with a customs official trying to remember what each and every tablet is. Because I take everything out of its original packaging I have a list here of the instructions. I've just updated this one then I'm going to laminate it before it goes into the first aid bag. This is my first aid pouch. It's a good size for travel but still big enough to hold everything that I need. It opens out into these two zippered compartments and there's two mesh pockets on one side. I'll put a link to where I bought this one from in the description box below. First up I've got cocodamol. This is a really strong painkiller for when paracetamol just won't cut it. They also like to write the date of when they expire on the top in permanent marker. Once they've been in the first aid bag for a while it's hard to see the original printing. The most common one we use paracetamol tablets. For Jess I have these children's paracetamol sachets. They're perfect for traveling because each sachet contains a measured dose and I don't have to worry about liquid restrictions at the airport. And ibuprofen. This is the other one we use the most often. This is good for if you've been walking all day and you've got muscle aches and it's really good for sunburn. Cold and flu capsules and these ones have the day capsules and the night capsules to help you sleep. I also like to take cold and flu sachets with this. If I'm feeling ill I like to snuggle up in bed at night drink one of these and read a good book. Vapor or menthol rub. I love the smell of this and if I'm feeling ill I put this on the soles of my feet at night cover it with a pair of socks and it helps draw out the cold. Throat lozenges. If we're away over the winter and the heating comes on overnight I tend to wake up with a really sore throat. These ones have an antiseptic in them to help kill off the bugs and a numbing agent for the pain. Diarrhoea relief. If you've got diarrhoea the best thing you can do is let it all out. You don't really want to be taking tablets to keep whatever's causing the diarrhoea inside your body. But sometimes you do need to go out and you can't hog the toilet all day and these come in handy. Indigestion relief. Chances are if you're going abroad you're going to be trying lots of different foods. These are going to be a lifesaver if you get indigestion. Sterilising tablets. We had these when Jess was little but they've become really useful so if we are away and we develop a bug I want to sterilise anything like our toothbrushes or anything that might be harbouring those germs. Rehydration treatments. These are good for replacing lost fluids when you've got diarrhoea. You could drink a large glass of salted sugar water but these are more convenient and probably taste a little better too. Sleeping tablets. These are good if you're from jet lag or if like me you can't sleep anywhere in a strange bed on the first night of your holiday. Hydrocortisone cream. This is good for bites, stings and that sort of thing. I like the HC45 cream because there's a moisturising agent in there so it's also good for dermatitis and eczema and the hydrocortisone which stops the itching from the insect bites. A variety of plasters in every shape and size. Me or the kids are always getting cuts and scrapes on holiday so these are pretty much essential. A roll of fabric strapping. This is good for sticking down bigger bandages, for covering plasters or just sticking poorly limbs together. A one-a-day antihistamine. I like these ones because they're non-drowsy but I can take chlorphenamine or piratone at night time when being drowsy is not a problem. A spray bottle of alcohol rub and this is good for cleaning any cuts and scrapes. I hope you enjoyed this video and you found it useful. If you did then please give it a like. If you want to see more videos from me in the future then click the subscribe button right here and if you want to see more from me right now click on one of these videos and I'll see you again soon. Bye!