Here is a list of useful medicines and dressings with a description of their uses.
Keep them in a box or cupboard with a lock, or store them well out of reach of children.
Soluble Aspirin Tablets
For adults and older children. Good for headaches, colds, sore throats and painful bruises.
Paracetamol Mixture
For relief of pain or fever in young children.
Sedative Cough Linctus
For dry or painful coughs – but not coughs caused by common colds.
Menthol Crystals/Vapour Rub
Crystals - Add to hot water to make team inhalations for treating catarrh and dry or painful coughs. Apply vapour rub on chest and back.
Ephedrine Nose Drops
For runny noses in children over one year old. Use before meals and at night but not for more than four days.
Antiseptic Solution
One teaspoon diluted in warm water for cleaning cuts and grazes.
Antiseptic Cream
For treating septic spots, sores in the nose and grazes.
Calamine Lotion
For dabbing (not rubbing) on insect bites and stings and mild sunburn (to relieve itching and soreness).
3” wide Crepe Bandage
To keep dressings in place. To support sprained or bruised joints.
Cotton wool
For cleaning cuts and grazes
Thermometer
For fevers
Tweezers
For removing splinters.