The Need For Home First Aid Kits
How many times have you had to hunt around for an antiseptic cream to dress a cut or a wound of someone near and dear to you? The inability to properly take care of someone you care about is something that can not only pose a serious threat to their safety, it can also make you feel incompetent. The availability of a first aid kit at your home is an important part of home safety and is an option desired by many individuals but only the ones dedicated to the efficient maintenance and upkeep of a first aid box truly justify its purpose.
Accidents and mishaps can happen anytime, anyplace, and your home is not an exception to that. Mishaps while doing day to day household chores is a common occurrence. While homemakers often get a cut on their fingers while cutting or chopping vegetables, dads often get caught in minor or major injuries while trying their hands at carpentry or small vehicle repairs. If you thought that the injuries that are faced by the adults of a house are frequent, you are in for a surprise! Nothing can compare with the injuries suffered by children, i seems sometimes. Coming in with a new cut or a bruise at any time, children do suffer their fair share of injuries. In fact, injuries among of kids is one of the main reason why many people stock a first aid kit at their houses in the first place.
Predicting who or where one will get injured at the home is next to impossible and no one can ever prepare enough for that. While it is clear that emergencies do occur in the home premises, every home first aid kit should contain a list of emergency numbers. While creating a first aid kit, jot down a clear and concise list of important emergency numbers like community emergency services (911), police, fire department, poison control center along with the number of your family doctor and paste it on the cover of your first aid box. If you stay away from home for long hours, it is a good practice to include telephone numbers of your friends and other family members in case your kids are unable to contact you.
First aid kit can also be used as a central repository of medical information about each of your family members. It would not only serve as a single point information source for any medical emergency, it will also ensure that the right medicine is administered to a family member in case of an emergency. Penicillin is an antibiotic that is commonly used as an ingredient to disinfect wounds but some people are allergic to it; chances of administering penicillin based antibiotics by mistake are reduced if the medical history of family members is written somewhere on the first aid box itself.
Like other items in the house, it is essential to maintain a home first aid kit by keeping its contents in tip top shape as only a well maintained first aid box will be able to ensure that you provide proper first aid care to your near and dear ones.