What should be in the medicine cabinet

Any good housewife will always have at home the necessary medicines and first aid. They can be stored in different ways. Someone gets a special box, someone a shelf - or a locker. The main thing is that at the right time everything is at hand. And do you know what should be in the medicine cabinet, and what to buy is not necessary? After all, this simple set can depend on someone's health or even life.

What should be in the medicine cabinet

Physicians are advised to have the following set at home:

• Paracetamol or aspirin (and it is better both that, and another);
• ammonia;
• Simple analgesics ;
• A cure for allergies. Even if no one in the family suffers from it;
• thermometer;
• Cotton wool, sterile bandages;
• Hydrogen peroxide, iodine, manganese, zelenka;
• Cardiac remedies (Corvalol);
• Activated carbon;
• Soothing agents;
• Drugs that promote the normalization of digestion.

The first-aid kit must include items such as a rubber pear and a heating pad. They are used rarely, but they can be used at any time. In addition to them, you can add a tourniquet, rubber gloves, ointments from burns and insect bites.

What should be in the medicine cabinet, in addition, depends on the individual characteristics of people living in the house. As a rule, each person has his own set of medicines, to which he is accustomed. In any case, all medications in the medicine cabinet should be checked regularly and kept in accordance with the storage conditions. Do not forget to get rid of drugs that have expired.

First Aid Kit

A person does not spend his whole life at home. He goes to work, to the store, he drives in the car. It is extremely inconvenient to carry a first aid kit with you. Therefore, such things should be in public places, in transport. They should be taken with them on a journey. Below is described what should be in the first aid kit:

• Elastic bandage for applying bandages for fractures, sprains, dislocations;
• Gauze bandage;
• Scissors for cutting bandages or clothes;
• Tweezers for removing various objects from wounds;
• Wool for disinfection of wounds;
• Gauze wipes for stopping blood;
• Sticking plaster for fixing bandages;
• Tourniquet for clamping the extremities in order to stop severe bleeding;
• Hydrogen peroxide, zelenka, iodine for the disinfection of wounds;
• Hypothermic packages that provide cold for injuries;
• Surgical gloves;
• Manganese for washing wounds and affected surfaces;
• Ammonia (used in fainting);
• Anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, analgesic ointment;
• Activated carbon;
• Antipyretic and analgesics;
• Antiallergic drugs of local and general action;
• Nitroglycerin (used for acute heart failure);
• Hormonal anti-inflammatory drugs;
• Eye solution antiseptic;
• Means for oral rehydration (used for severe fluid loss).

Everything that should be in the medicine cabinet should be bought only in pharmacies. Pay attention to the expiration dates and the integrity of the package of funds.