SUGGESTED CONTENTS OF A FIRST AID BOX
- Thermometer (know how to read it!) +/-
- Vaseline
- Scissors – blunt ended & curved to trim hair away from wounds
- Cotton wool
- Clean container for water
- Skin cleanser e.g. Hibiscrub Solution 4% (use at correct dilution)
- Sterile saline / Irriclens Sterile Saline or salt
- Wound gel e.g. Vetalintex Wound Hydrogel, IntraSite Gel 15g
- Sterile non-stick dressing e.g. Skintact Dressing, Melolin Dressing
- Soft padding bandages e.g. Orthoband, EasiVet Soft Bandage, EasiVet Cotton Wool or Soffban
- Animalintex poultice or EasiPoultice Veterinary Poultice Dressing
- Scissors to cut dressings
- Veterinary Gamgee
- Self-adherent bandages e.g. 3M Vetrap, CO Form Cohesive Bandage, Easitape Cohesive
Bandage - Tea towel / towel
- Tail bandage
- Bandage tape, Surgical tape, Micropore tape
TELEPHONE NUMBER OF YOUR VET – (01728) 685 123
Last reviewed May 2019