PREMISE:

  1. 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.
  2. 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