We continue with our Special Traveling with children in Babies and more Talking a little more about those things that we should carry thinking about children. Today we will focus on the medicine cabinet, since children's health is more easily destabilized than ours and we don't always know where to go, nor will we always have a place to go.
What we have to carry will depend largely on the place of destination, since it is not the same to go to Mallorca than to go to some developing country because there are places where we can find everything and others where not there are places where it will be hot and some medications may not be well preserved.
I think that the most opportune thing is to talk about everything that could be interesting to take, whatever the destination is and, if you consider it too much, because you are close or to a developed country, you are taking away things (which you will have a few left over).
First aid kit for children
- Paracetamol and / or Ibuprofen: for fever or for him pain…
- Physiological serum in single-dose: that can help us both to heal a wound, and to throw in the eyes if something has entered or in the nose if the mucus appears.
- Broad-spectrum oral antibiotic: only if we are going to some developing country and we are going to be there for a few days ... better if it is not necessary to reconstitute it with water or store it in the refrigerator, of course (and difficult to be prescribed, in any case).
- Envelopes of oral rehydration: in case diarrhea appears. We will have to prepare them with bottled water. We can also find bricks with the serum already prepared, which we can take on the plane as long as they do not exceed 120 ml.
- Cream with corticosteroids: very useful for eczema, for local allergic reactions or to reduce mosquito beans.
- Antibiotic cream: in case any wound or sting starts to get infected
- Sunscreen cream: evident ... not usually go in the medicine cabinet, but just in case we put it too.
- Insect repellents: there is not much to say, better safe than sorry.
- Thermometer: the great forgotten. We do not usually remember him because he does not cure or treat, but without him we can hardly know how serious a fever can be
- Strips: now there are even the favorite characters of children, so there is no excuse to use them if we want to cover a small wound.
- Sterile gauze and adhesive plaster: they let the air through more than the strips, so the ideal thing not to macerate the skin is usually a gauze with adhesive plaster around it (although I already say that if the wound is tiny, a bandage can go well).
- Scissors, tweezers and bandages: to cure with the above.
- Non-iodized antiseptic: the better is chlorhexidine. Betadine is no longer recommended because iodine is very absorbed and can be dangerous for the thyroid.
- Cream for the diaper: I guess who wears diapers already has it, but just in case it can be very useful to carry a creampie for the ass in case it gets irritated.
But whenever possible, go to the doctor
Everything mentioned is possible solutions to possible problems that may occur during a trip and that respond to the need to treat a condition, basically while we meet a doctor. Self-medication can be dangerous and more in children, who are not always able to explain what they feel.
So whenever possible and whenever we believe it is necessary (in case of fever, diarrhea, infections, ...) we must go to a health center to verify that the treatment we do is appropriate or to be prescribed as appropriate in each case.
