First Aid for the BOB

[RangerRick]

I've got a basic first aid kit for the BOB's but I'd like to put together a real good one - - - on the cheap.

I've got the typical stuff, minor pain pills, asprine, eye wash, benidril, scaphel, bandade stuff but I'd like to have something first rate. Any one got any suggestions for a combat squad kit for the BOB?

Rick

[Bad_Omen]

This may help with a few ideas

http://www.imsplus.com/ims24.html

Damion

[Tuckahoe]

Another great idea is to take an EMT course through the fire department or local community college. The EMT training will teach you how to do more with less equipment than you ever expected.

[Rama_das]

i keep a bigger one for the house, but for the car/bob kit i keep a well stocked world famous bag. the kind that looks something like a purse. by cause it's a man's shoulder bag, it looks more like a man bag! lol. at any rate they are fairly durable, (may want to reinforce the stitching) but you can where it while wearing a backpack, or loop it over the backpack.

[Al_Coda]

Don't know if this has been discussed before, and it's not really 'first aid' - but I stock a good quantity of antibiotics in my home BOB, and take 10 days worth in my tiny 'air travel BOB'. Generic varieties of the more common (first/second generation) ones are available from veterinary supply stores for use with fish/birds. No prescription needed.

Fish/bird pills might sound a bit scary, but I have ordered these numerous times over the past 10 years. Each time, I
look up the pill markings in my Physicians Desk Reference (just to make sure), and always find them listed. They are generics made by major pharmaceutical companies for human use, and in standard human dosages.

Requires some initial research for the medical layman of course, and probably of little use if a BW agent was released, but could easily be the difference between managing/preventing infection, or slowly dying from systemic infection.

I stock amoxicillin, doxycycline, and metronidazole and replace them yearly. Check online veterinary supply stores (or even at Amazon) for "Fish-mox", "Fish-zole", and "bird-biotic".