How to build your own Wilderness First Aid Kit

While camping, you must bring a first aid kit. It is one of the most important things you must bring while camping. Whether you hike, carry backpacks or do some other activities, you can get injured or get sick anywhere.

And you should buy a good first aid kit from the store or have it well stocked with you, as you should be close to medical care, just a phone call away, but the first aid kit may not be enough for everything you may need. Keeping your first aid kit out of your stockpile of supplies is a cost-effective way to be prepared for any emergency.

There are three types of first aid kits, some of which are heavy and are kept in the car or at home. Some are medium in weight and suitable for trips, and those light for those who only want the basics.

COMMON USES FOR A WILDERNESS FIRST AID KIT

We use first aids during exposure to injuries during a hiking or kayaking trip. These problems and injuries are:

• Use a first aid kit when a person falls and cuts himself, meaning he has bled.
• Use the first aid kit when a person twists his ankle.
• Use a first aid kit when insect bites and bee stings occur.
• Use a first aid kit when hot water touches you or when you touch a hot frying pan, meaning you get some burns.

This list should be included in the first aid kit in the wild. This list is for personal use only, especially during camping trips, such as kayaking or hiking. 

This list does is not fit expeditions and travel in the mountains and the arctic.

WHAT DOES ALL THE WILDERNESS FIRST AID STUFF GO INTO?

You can buy a dedicated bag for first aid or keep the first aid in a large bag that you have at home. We also recommended purchasing some red tape to call it a first aid kit. And if you are paddling, put your first aid kit in a dry bag or an airtight container to prevent water from reaching it. 

BLEEDING AND BURNS KIT

While you are going on the camping trip, you must prepare a large bag of first aid for bleeding and burns, as this bag must contain the following tools:

• Disinfecting wipes:

Use these wipes to disinfect cuts and scrapes.

• Bandages of different types and sizes:

Use Bandages to stop the bleeding.

• Contains gauze:

Use gauze in case there is a large wound. It is wrapped under the bandages to absorb the blood.

• Sam Split:

Use it to stabilize broken bones.

• Antibacterial cream or Polysporin:

It is clean-cut, scrapes and burns well.

• Medical tape:

Use it in large wounds and burns, where the injury is completely covered with gauze and secured with medical tape.

• Scissors:

Use it to cut gauze or bandages, and you must keep a paper towel wrapped around the blades and fixed with an elastic band to prevent the scissors from tearing the bag.

• Tweezers:

Use it to remove splinters.

• Tick ​​key:

You should check the hash every day in the backcountry and use it to get rid of tags if you find one.

• Moleskin:

Use it to get rid of pimples.

There is a bag called a Ziploc that holds Polysporin, antiseptic wipes, and bandages outside the first aid bag. They are stored in a dry bag if you’re paddling, or in an outside pocket in your bag. 

Camping scrapes usually happen if you camp with kids. 

ALLERGIES AND MEDICINE KIT

The first aid kit must contain some tools and allergens kept in a bag with Meds written on it. These tools are:

• Anti-itch cream:

Use it during exposure to mosquito bites and skin irritation.

• Benadryl (or another anti-histamine)

It is suitable for allergies. It helps to get rid of swelling caused by insect bites.

• Advil (or another ibuprofen)

It relieves pain, especially pain that is present in muscles or injury.

• Tylenol (or another acetaminophen)

Use it to get rid of headache pain.

• Gravol

Use it to get rid of stomach pain and nausea.

• Imodium

It helps with diarrhoea, which you may not want in the countryside.

• Chew-able baby aspirin

It is used quickly during some people having a heart attack. 

HEALTH, WELLNESS AND OTHER ITEMS

You can add health and wellness tools in the first aid kit, but they are not significant because they do not save human life and are not significant in critical care. These tools are:

• Biodegradable camp soap:

It must be on hand.

• Sunblock cream :

If you forget your sunscreen, use a large bottle.

• Aquatabs:

It works to purify water. In case you run out of clean water, or you want to rely on the water of lakes and rivers to get clean water.

• Energy bars and snacks that are high in glucose:

Use it if you feel a loss of energy or faint due to low blood sugar, and if you have diabetes, energy bars should be among the tools in the first aid kit while camping.

• Plastic bags:

After you have finished cleaning your wound or burn, collect the garbage in a plastic bag, so you must provide a plastic bag for such matters.

• Pen:

It is a pen used to mark a small plate of paper or a notebook. This pen is useful while writing down the details of the injury or disease, such as determining the time of taking a particular medication and deciding the amount of drug. 

Bring a first aid manual that is pocket-sized:

This guide is valuable. You can rely on it and be in the form of a sheet of first aid in the wild. You can get it for free if you take a course with WildMed, or you can buy one for $21. 

Safety Doesn’t Just Happen

Many people go on a camping trip where they take an easy and hassle-free approach, especially when it comes to our health and safety.

The environment in which sports are practised is mostly more susceptible to injury or illness than places where others play their sport. You may get injured in the football fields, but to a lesser extent than playing the ball in a rocky area wet with rain, where the injuries here are crushing and dangerous. 

Common Hiking & Backpacking Ailments

Due to the variety of terrain, we have to go hiking, which may belong and adapt to some variables such as climate, season and difficulty of the trail. The damage that may be sustained while hiking outside varies greatly.

The injuries that may occur as a result of hiking and hiking are:

• Warts :

One of the worst things that may happen to you during a trip or hiking is the occurrence of friction between your skin, especially on your feet, as a result of shoes or socks, which may spoil your trip.

• Sprains:

You may get some sprains out of walking in rough, uneven and very slippery terrain, where these things cause a sprain in the knee, wrist or ankle.

• Wounds and abrasions:

You may get some cuts from low branches, sharp rocks, slippery pebbles, backpacks and camp knives.

• Sunburn:

It occurs out of exposure to the sun for a very long time or while hiking in the snow-covered terrain so that it is high, which exposes the hikers to excessive ultraviolet rays.

• Friction: 

It happens as a result of friction between the skin or the discord of the skin with clothes, and you should not underestimate this matter, as it is annoying and may cause you tears.

• Muscle cramps:

Muscle cramps occur involuntarily, as they occur as a result of a great effort on the muscle and continuously and without renewing the salts and fluids that are lost from them as a result of sweat.

• Tick ​​bites:

If you do not treat it, it may transmit Lyme disease. A disease that is considered contagious, and this disease may lead to paralysis, heart problems and arthritis.

• Fractions:

Fractures occur in several ways, as they occur as a result of slipping and falling or being hit by stones that may fall on you, or a broken toe as a result of hitting a hard object while you are wandering barefoot in the wild.

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