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If you are going to forget to prep something, DO NOT let it be your First Aid Kit. As sure as anything, something will occur that will have made you wish you thought of or made room for your First Aid Kit.

It is also important that each individual have some sort of Mini First Aid Kit in their Bug Out Bag.

Let's say you are not bugging out, instead maybe you are on lockdown and martial law has been declared and you cannot go anywhere. You will want and need any basic First Aid Supplies, especially anything to stop a headache, a bleed, diahhrea or vomiting.

The following is a list of basic, necessary and advanced First Aid Kit supplies.

Choose, prep and pack wisely.

Ace bandages - wrapping for strains and sprains

Abdominal pads - padding, packing and protection for large wounds and open tissue (holes)

Aloe Vera - treating burns

Antibiotics - ointment, cream, pills

Anti-Diarrheal Medication

Anti-Fungal creme

Antiseptics - hygiene and cleanliness

Aspirin

Band-Aids

Benadryl - allergy medicine

Butterfly bandages - to close small shallow cuts and lacerations

Caffeine pills - for those on night-watch

Chest seals - for deep puncture wounds to the chest, neck, and abdomen

Coban roll - to wrap fingers or limbs, even the torso

Contact Lens - Extras on hand

Emergency blankets - mylar or wool

Epi-pen - it just makes sense

Eye cup - for eye washing

Eye pad or patch - to cover eye injury

Eyeglasses - extra pair

Gauze - pads, rolled, triangular

Gloves - latex

Hydrocortisone cream

Hydrogen Peroxide

Isopropyl Alcohol

Moleskin - soft fabric tape for the feet

Needle and thread

Orajel (tooth ointment)

Pain relievers - Acetaminophen (Tylenol) - is not an NSAID and relieves fever, headaches, and other common aches and pains.

Pain relievers (NSAIDS - nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) - Naproxen (Aleve, Anaprox DS, Naprosyn), Execdrin (Aspirin Compound), Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin)

Safety pins

Saline eye wash - contact lens rinse

SAM splint - a portable, lightweight and convenient splint

Silk medical tape roll - high strength adhesion tape

Soap

Thermometer

Topical creams - to relieve redness, itching, swelling, or other discomfort caused by skin conditions

Tourniquet - something that can serve to apply pressure to stop the flow of blood

Trauma shears (scissors)

Triangular bandages

Tweezers - for wound care

Wound irrigation syringes

White petroleum jelly (Vaseline)

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