First Aid kits and children

[Four Suns]

I want to see if I am the only one that experiences this problem. Have any of you noticed that when a child sees or knows you have a first aid kit, that child will suddenly need to have access to all the supplies in it due to life threatening scrapes and scratches. Guaze, big bandages, all bandaids, disinfectant wipes and any cool medical gadget in the kit must be used immediately or the child will die. Mosquito bites require at least a gauze wrap. Therefore, when dad slices through his finger, there will be no way to treat it except with a dirty rag from the engine room.

Anyone else have this problem? I think I know what "stocking stuffers" to get the kids next Christmas.

As an FYI, cleaning the trim rings on those exterior cantalupi lights is dangerous. I took one off yesterday and was cleaning it and the inner edge is razor sharp. I know that now as I was pushing on it and I could feel the meat in my finger being cut into before the pain hit... and I used a dirty rag from the engine room.

 

[shoelessben]

Luckily my daughter is young enough that she hasn't really noticed the first aid kit yet... but I am sure it will happen...
at least you had the dirty rag in the engine room!!

 

[ImpulseIII]

My kids are older and have moved away (boo...hoo) but I remember when they were younger and we had a small sail boat with a porta potty, they would always have to use the porta potty as soon as we got away from the marina. It didn't matter if they had both just used the head at the marina and had nothing to eat or drink for the past few hours, they HAD to use the porta potty!!!!!!Then dad had to empty it when we returned....some fun :smt021 . It does bring back some memories, though.....

 

[Nehalennia II]

Gary, Yeah we keep lots of bacitracin or neosporin on hand so that we have some "Magic Medicine" aboard. After a cut from an oyster bed last year, my son Luke found out why the kit's no toy. We needed a bigger Band-Aidâ„¢

 

[AndersonAcres]

That band aid/first aid kit situation applied to me as a kid. Now I prefer the oily rag. I guess it's just different degrees of macho. To my eyes band aids now look sissified on me.

 

[RiverRat]

Four Suns, Have you thought of a second or "real" first aid kit? When our kids were younger and needed the quick fix we had a first aid kit with just the basics in it and another stashed with the good stuff in it. Worked out well and thankfully never had to use the "real" one. :thumbsup:

 

[Nehalennia II]

That band aid/first aid kit situation applied to me as a kid. Now I prefer the oily rag. I guess it's just different degrees of macho. To my eyes band aids now look sissified on me.

Not with Spiderman on them :huh:

 

[lorenbennett]

paper towel and electrical tape is the best band I know. :thumbsup:

 

[Four Suns]

ewwww... oily rags are much much better than paper towels. I was prying on a plastic panel once with an x-acto knife pulling the knife towards me and it slipped out of the groove and sliced open my left index finger from the fiirst knuckle to the second knuckle down to the bone. I grabbed a roll of paper towel and wrapped the finger in them and the emergency room staff spent a good 30 minutes picking the disolved paper towel out of the butterflied-wound (I found you get to cut in front of the line at the ER when blood is flowing on the floor).