PREMISE:
- Each component of the crossing has to to bring any medications that he usually uses by calculating to stay away from a pharmacy twice the expected time and have a chat with your doctor before departure. A particular recommendation for diabetics and hypertensive people, of course.
- This “list” is exaggerated for non-experts, therefore the “excesses” are highlighted
INJURIES AND TRAUMA
Need for sutures and steri-streep “point” patches
Set for emergency surgery
Sterile bandages, plasters, gauze
- Tensoplast
- Curafix bandage
- Elastic bandage type Thuasne No. 16
- Zinc oxide bandage
Wooden tongue depressor for possible makeshift splints
Folding aluminum splints (fracture immobilization)
Disinfectant type Betadine and Citrosil
Betadine soap
Sterile gloves
Local anesthetic
Syringes 5 cc. , small needles (27/30 G)
Instant ice
SKIN, EYES, EARS
Ointments:
- mild cortisone (Locoidon)
- strong cortisone (Clobesol, Diprosone)
- antibiotic (Bactroban, Gentalyn)
- Foille for burns
- Antihistamine (Promethazine = Reactifargan cream)
- Acyclovir for Herpes
- Betadine gel for wounds
Eyes
- Decongestant eye drops (Chamomile, Imidazyl)
- Cortisone eye drops
- Antibiotic eye drops or ointment (chemicetin or similar)
Ears
- Anauran drops
- Water oxygenates 10 volumes for washing after baths or immersions
ALLERGIES
ANTIHISTAMINE
- Zirtec cp. 10 mg
- Farganesse injectable
CORTISONE
- Urbason tablets 4 mg
- Bentelan cp. 1 mg
- Urbason vials or Bentelan vials
ADRENALINE
FEVER, PAIN AND VARIOUS VIRAL FORMS
- Tachipirina effervescent tablets of 1000
- Aspirin, Novalgina, Aulin, Orudis 100 mg. Ampoules and tablets
- Borocillin for sore throat
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
- Buscopan ampoules and tablets baralgina ampoules (abdominal colic)
- Plasil vials and syrup (nausea and vomiting)
- Zofran suppositories and ampoules (important vomiting)
- Immodium tablets (diarrhea)
- Generic purgative type euchessina
- Bimixin tablets (abdominal pain with fever)
- Fast acting soluble Zantac
- Ranitidine ampoules
- Omeprazole tablets
- Maalox syrup
- Soluble granular citrosodine
VARIOUS ANTIBIOTICS
- Augmentin one gram sachets or tablets
- Ciproxin tablets 500 mg
- Injectable cephalosporin (Cefamezin 500 mg) im
- Monuril sachets (fosfomycin) for acute cystitis
MISCELLANEOUS (AT DISCRETION FOR ANY SPECIAL NEEDS)
- Mosquito repellent
- Ammonia
- Hypochlorite (amuchina)
- Benzodiazepines for insomnia and anxiety
- Valium drops
- Halcion tablets (short half-life hypnotic)
- Need for infusion (infusion set, butterfly, green cannula needle)
- Multivitamins, Vitamin C, Urinary disinfectant
- Genurin tablets (specific antispasmodic urinary tract for renal colic)
- ALKALIZING urine Uralyt os grat. 100 gr (in case of urate colic)
- ACIDIFYING the urine (Vit c 4 grams)
- STICK for blood sugar
- Urinary STICK
- Hemostatic cotton
- Urinary catheter
- ADALAT for any hypertensive crisis (to be used sub-lingual)
- SIRDALUD tablets (centrally acting muscle relaxant)
- NITROCOR or ADESITRIN nitroglycerin patches
- Sub lingual NITROGLYCERIN (Trinitrin)
- MORPHINE 10 MG VIALS
- VIALS OF HYPERTONIC GLUCOSATE
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
- MANOMETER SPHYGMO
- PORTABLE ULTRASOUND
- OTOSCOPE, RHINOSCOPE
- BATTERY COAGULATOR