How to put together Cheap Lightweight First Aid Kit for a couple of dollars to buy yourself a little insurance on your next hike. You can buy a ready-made first aid kit and spend between $3-120 dollars. I prefer to steal a couple of bandaids out of each of the boxes in the medicine cabinet. Any oddball stuff, like blister pads, you might need to go buy. Depending on how much I care about the well being of my hiking friends will determine how many options I add to the basic kit. I used to hike with children. Now that I hike with adults, I figure they should know better, but it’s nice to offer someone a little comfort once in a while.
Before your next hike, round us the following and stuff it all into a quart size freezer-weight ziptop bag:
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- Burn gel
- Alcohol swabs
- Butterfly closures
- Dr. Scholl’s Blister Treatment
- various sized bandaids
- 3 Small & 2 Large & 2 Square & fingertip & knuckle
- 2″ guaze pads
- Eye pad
- Diphenhydramine 25mg (10x)
- Acetaminophen 500mg (10x)
- Hydrocortisone cream (tube)
- Antibiotic Ointment (tube)
- J&J First-aid Cloth Tape – 1 Inch
- Liquid Skin or octylcyanoacrylate glue
- Freezer-type ZipTop bag
== at this point, I’m at 6 oz!
elsewhere in pack:
- Ace Wrapper
- lip balm
- insect repellent
- Space blanket (mylar sheet)
- more heavier stuff:
- Instant Cold Pack
- triangle sling
- vinyl gloves
- topical benedryl
- Mosquito relief