Medical Checklist
Your own personal medications should head this list. If your condition is potentially serious, a Medic Alert Bracelet is essential.
No checklist can cover every situation so the following list is provided only as a basis. No liability is accepted. You need to very carefully compile your own with the advice and assistance of your own doctor.
No checklist can cover every situation so the following list is provided only as a basis. No liability is accepted. You need to very carefully compile your own with the advice and assistance of your own doctor.
First draft checklist:
- Aspirin or paracetamol (acetaminophen in the USA) - for pain or fever
- Antihistamine - for allergies (e.g. hay fever); to ease the itch from insect bites or stings; and to prevent motion sickness
- Cold and flu tablets, throat lozenges and nasal decongestant
- Multivitamins - consider for long trips, when dietary vitamin intake may be inadequate
- Antibiotics - consider including these if you’re travelling into the outback. See your doctor, as they must be prescribed!
- Loperamide or diphenoxylate - ‘blockers’ for diarrhoea
- Prochlorperazine or metoclopramide - for nausea and vomiting (Ginger may also be an alternative for nausea, particularly in relation to travel sickness)
- Re-hydration mixture - to prevent dehydration; which may occur during bouts of diarrhoea. This is particularly important when travelling with children
- Insect repellent
- Sunscreen, lip balm, ear drops, and eye drops
- Calamine lotion, sting relief spray or Aloe Vera - to ease irritation from sunburn, insect bites or stings
- Antifungal cream or powder- for fungal skin infections and thrush
- Antiseptic (such as povidone-iodine) - for cuts and grazes
- Bandages, Band-Aids (plasters) and other wound dressings
- Elastic or crepe bandages- for sprains or snake bite
- Water purification tablets or iodine
- Scissors, tweezers, rubber pointed eye probe, and a thermometer. Please note that mercury thermometers are prohibited by airlines
- Pencil and note paper
- Indigestion tablets
- Vinegar- for jellyfish stings
- Temporary tooth-filling mix - to replace fillings and loose caps
- Toothache dropsBurn cream (Such as Savlon)
- Air splint- for broken limbs or immobilising limbs after snake bite
- A first-aid handbook
- An appropriate container or containers for the medical kit
MOST IMPORTANTLY make sure you carry with you a list of emergency numbers: Doctors, Hospitals, and Local Police Station.
Planning prevents disaster!!
