[cyberhippie]

What stuff do you all carry in your medical kit on a trip to India, here's what I carry around!!

Plasters
Spray on Plaster
Tick pen
Tweezers
Scissors
Norfloxin tablets
Ciproflaxin tablets
Clotrimine cream
Antibiotic powder
Vicks 500 tablets
Albendazole tablets
Amoxycillin tablets
Ibuprufen tablets
Immodium tablets
Oral Rehydration Packs
Secnidazole tablets
Alchohol
Small Crepe Bandage

[SoulCurry]

Anti-histaminic (for allergies): cetrizine. (Recommended by maternal unit).
Anti-emetic: for road- or air- or sea-sickness.
Iodex balm: for small sprains.

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Alchohol

CyberHippie For medicinal purposes, I'm sure?

[cyberhippie]

Hey a bottle of Scotch is good for lots of medical emergencies    

[dhans]

What we took in December

Medical kit for two paraents and two kids (5 and 3 years old)

Always with us during the day:

First aid kit (brand care plus from ‘tropenzorg’ with some additions of our own:
Hydrophilic bandages 300*8 cm and 400*8  cm
Burn dressing
Sterile compresses
Antiseptic wipes
Adhesive tape
Protection gloves
Emergency bandages
Tweezers
Safety pins
Wound plaster
Emergency shears
Shatterproof thermometer
Emergency blanket
Support bandage
Triangular sling
Tick out tick remover
Chloorhexidine 0,2 % antibacterial spray

Medicines available in our luggage:

Paracetamol with caffeine 500 mg (adults); the modern aspirin; helps against all kinds of pains (and hangovers)
Paracetamol 160 mg (perdolan); chewing tablets for children
Tripelennamine HCL (Azaron) relieves itches from mosquito bites etc.
Multivitamins for adults and children
Proguanil hydrochloride (Paludrine) Malaria prophylaxis
Amoxicillin ; broad-spectrum antibiotic (Flemoxin : solvable in water)
Ciprofloxacin 500 mg (another antibiotic especially against heavy diarrhoea
Oral Rehydration Solution (adult and children; basically the same stuff, but the child variety has an added taste (still lousy)
(Miconazoli nitras 2,5 mg zinc oxydium 150 mg pro gram)Anti fungal cream
Loperamide HCL (Immodium)
Xylometazolin (0.1% for adults, 0,05 % for kids; opens up all cavities in your head; good against pressure differences in planes)
Fluconazol 50 mg (against slime in the airways)

[priya]

cyberhippie, on May 12 2006, 02:02 PM, said:

What stuff do you all carry in your medical kit on a trip to India, here's what I carry around!!


Tick pen

Well cyber, where I come from half of the stuff you mentioned is unobtainable,   except the alchol, but I'm really interested to know what a Tick pen is???

I survived India with a box of Disprin and some Immodium which I gave away to some poor soul in Chennai!!

[malkers]

Good lord that must take up some luggage space!

Here is my list!

Mosquito Repellant  

Thats it!

Malc
PS: Occassionally a pack of ibuprofen if I'm going somewhere hot!

[priya]

I guess we're just double-rugged and triple scary huh??!!!

[cyberhippie]

After 5 years on the road in India you just get to know what you need (most of it goes to other people actually) it all fits inside a little zippable pencil case very small!!

A tick pen looks just like a pen with two jaws instead of a nib, press the button on the top (like a pen) jaws open, you let go it grabs the tick, rotate clockwise and the tick is removed, withought leaving anything behind to infect the wound!!

Never used this in India as yet, plenty times in Scotland though!

[choledochus]

cyberhippie, on May 12 2006, 05:32 PM, said:

What stuff do you all carry in your medical kit on a trip to India, here's what I carry around!!

Plasters
Spray on Plaster
Tick pen
Tweezers
Scissors
Norfloxin tablets
Ciproflaxin tablets
Clotrimine cream
Antibiotic powder
Vicks 500 tablets
Albendazole tablets
Amoxycillin tablets
Ibuprufen tablets
Immodium tablets
Oral Rehydration Packs
Secnidazole tablets
Alchohol
Small Crepe Bandage

hi
Excellent resource!!  
would like to add the following to your list if I were travelling...anywhere..not just India

1) Instead of Immodium tablets  (also loperamide which was listed in another post) I would recommend
       T.SPORLAC (tablets made of Lactobacillus spores) .These would be very useful in case of the Delhi belly and would be much safer than the other mentioned drugs.

2) ...would need additions if suffering from travel sickness ( AVOMINE , Stemetil,  promethazine / perchlorperazine etc- Labyrinthine sedatives for motion sickness)

3) whole new list if children travelling....
     whole new list of problems as well... I travel with my 3 year old and boy do we have some strange problems to tackle

bye

Edited by choledochus, 12 May 2006 - 10:13 PM.

[Judi]

If you suffer from travel sickness, I can highly recommend wrist bands  (I think the ones Mr J has are called SeaBands).   These are small wrist bands which have a kind of ball inside them.  When positioned correctly round the wrists the ball rests on an acupuncture pressure point and cures motion sickness very swiftly, without the need for drugs and their side effects.

[rangss]

cyberhippie, on May 12 2006, 07:53 PM, said:

A tick pen looks just like a pen with two jaws instead of a nib, press the button on the top (like a pen) jaws open, you let go it grabs the tick, rotate clockwise and the tick is removed, withought leaving anything behind to infect the wound!!

I wish I had one when my pets were alive! Poor things suffered silently while I de-ticked them!

[WonderWomanUSA]

cyberhippie, on May 12 2006, 05:02 AM, said:

What stuff do you all carry in your medical kit on a trip to India, here's what I carry around!!

Plasters (BandAids)
Iodine (can also use to purify water)
Immodium
Tylenol
Vicodin
Tweezers
Mirror
Insulin + Syringes
Everyday meds
Blood test strips & Meter

The insulin is new since my last visit to India; since my pharmacist is Gujarati, I'll ask him what to buy in India that corresponds with what I use here.

[jyoti]

Tick pen?  Sho! I used to use pliers on the poor dogs... Yet, somehow the "jaws" and "twist" seems even grosser. Ugh.

One thing I wish I'd had in India:

Non stick gauze!!  No matter how much I was willing to pay for it, no one had it.    Not that I was planning on having bandages, mind you.
I had a hard time finding triple antibiotic as well. I suppose the powder works as well, but Neosporin is more familiar thus more preferred.

From the US, I was glad to have:

Naproxen Sodium (Aleve)
Theraflu (my favored cold/flu medicine)

Anything else I could get in India once I figured out what it was called.

[square]

I took some rehydration salts too. Great for sorting you out after a bout of dihorrea.

[jyoti]

I got rehydration salts at the local pharmacy. But I've since learned it's better to have it on hand before you need it!