First aid kit for the office: to provide for everything

The question that in the office it is necessary to have a first-aid kit, sooner or later arises in any organization. And it's good if it occurs earlier than there is an emergency situation. To complete the first aid kit with everything you need and not to keep anything superfluous in it, you need to foresee much, think through and make the right list. Someone can express that it is easier to buy a ready-made kit. Indeed, at the present time in the pharmacy range there are standard office first-aid kits, and even in different equipment. They are quite convenient, but, as a rule, they require corrections in each specific office, depending on the number of employees, their age and chronic diseases, and also on the specifics of the work.

And the main components that you need not forget, will be:

• analgesics and antispasmodics. The standard form includes "Analgin", but with independent selection of the necessary medicines it is often replaced with funds with a wider spectrum of action. For example, drugs based on ibuprofen ("Imet", "Nurofen"). They can be used both for high temperature, and for dental and headaches, joint pain and pre-dysmenorrhea. As an antispasmodic, a good choice will be Drotaverin (No-shpa), which perfectly removes the spasms of any internal organs;
• antipyretics. You can limit the usual packaging of acetylsalicylic acid, and you can complete the first aid kit with its soluble form, for example, "Upsarin" or effervescent tablets "Aspirin". There are preparations containing a combination of acetylsalicylic and ascorbic acids. Their intake not only lowers the temperature, but also causes the body to fight more actively with a cold or a virus. Suitable as an antipyretic and "Paracetamol." It is better if it is a tablet for resorption, capsule forms or tablets that are soluble in water (Rapidol, Efferalgan, Panadol);
• dressing agents. The right amount of bandages and the volume of cotton wool will depend on the size of the staff. It is better to stop the choice of sterile bandages and prepare several bandages of different sizes. It is good to have in the medicine cabinet a set of bactericidal adhesive plasters of different sizes, as well as a coil of the usual patch for fixing the dressings. In addition, hemostatic wipes impregnated with a special solution and packed individually are very convenient;
• rubber products. And this is not what you thought. Although, if your specificity of work assumes ... And if we are serious, then responsible for this part of the equipment of the office, seeking to provide all possible situations, there are not so rarely. But in our case we are talking about other products. This is a few parrezinovyh gloves and a small number of fingertips. Gloves are useful in the case of assisting in the treatment of wounds and dressings, and fingertips - for the isolation of water from minor abrasions or cuts on the fingers;
• sorbents. Several packages of activated charcoal or "Sorbeks" packaging will prove to be an irreplaceable assistant in almost all types of poisoning;
• gastric. It is not superfluous to have in the medicine cabinet a drug for heartburn. Most of them are produced in the form of chewable tablets or sachets with an acidity-reducing composition. Also, let there be packaging of the enzyme preparation (Festal, Mezim, Pancreatin). They perfectly relieve gravity in the stomach, and can also be claimed during office feasts;
• antidiarrheal. With this rather delicate and unpleasant problem, the anti-infective "Nifuroxazide" will help to recover. And if it's not an infection, but an infringement of the regime and diet, or if the diarrhea that has arisen has an emotional underlying, and this also happens, then Loperamide (Imodium, Lediumum) will reduce the frequency of urge and quickly normalize the intestine;
• hearted. Even if the team is young, the packaging "Validol", "Nitroglycerin" and "Corvalol" will not interfere. By the way, "Corvalol" is more convenient to take in tablet form. In the case of an acute condition, the tablet can be placed under the tongue. So it will act much faster. If the team has hypertensive drugs, then it is necessary to have a drug for arresting an attack of increased blood pressure;
• antihistamine. "Diazolin" or "Suprastin" prevent severe swelling will remove the symptoms of a reaction to biting insects or other allergens;
• disinfecting. Packaging of alcohol napkins, a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and a bottle of solutions of iodine and diamond greens is quite enough. Do not forget to stock up with cotton swabs for applying these solutions;
• р-р ammiakadlya deducing from a condition of a syncope and excitation of breath. Its availability is mandatory for any first aid kit. Remember that in large concentrations it can, on the contrary, cause a reflex stop of breathing. Therefore, treat it with caution. Do not bring the bottle to the nose, but only a piece of cotton wool or bandage moistened with a solution;
• take care that there is also a thermometer, a hemostatic tourniquet, pipettes and scissors in the medicine cabinet.
  

You can provide a slightly larger range and add to the first aid kit healing ointment, lollipops, anti-influenza teas or even sanitary napkins. However, the office first-aid kit should not be too overloaded or contain a medication to treat a particular disease. It should be self-necessary only for first aid. So, for example, it is not necessary to fill it with a mass of various anti-cold remedies. Because the human cold at all should not be in the team. Especially, for the diagnosis and appointment of treatment, a doctor's consultation is needed. In the medicine cabinet for the office can be drugs that relieve the first acute symptoms, but all the rest of the help should be qualified and turn out to be specialists.

The office first-aid kit should be in place, well-visible and easily accessible to any collaborative organization. It does not hurt to add to it a small guide to the rules for the indication of emergency care. In addition, an obligatory person must be appointed who will monitor compliance with the expiration dates of the drugs and timely replenish the kit.

Do not forget that this article is only advisory in nature, and when taking any medications, you must take into account their contraindications for a specific patient and take them strictly according to the instructions.

Be healthy!