List of 9 essential medicines for summer travel

With the arrival of summer vacation, many students will plan to go out for outings, and many office workers will take this opportunity to take a short vacation to go hiking, camping or traveling abroad. However, when going out for fun, some skin injuries and muscle sprains are inevitable. Bring a small family medicine kit with you, or prepare some commonly used medicines, which can be used in time.

External dressing

Expert recommendation: Band-Aid + elastic bandage

Go to the pharmacy in advance to buy Band-Aids, medical gauze, and elastic bandages. If conditions permit, you can also bring a tourniquet. If it is a shallow wound, such as a small cut, a scratch by glass, branches, etc., or a small skin injury caused by a fall, you can use a Band-Aid after disinfection.

Larger and deeper wounds should be disinfected first, treated with medication, and then bandaged with medical gauze, bandages and other dressings to stop bleeding, and go to the hospital for treatment in time.

External disinfectant

Experts recommend: Iodine

When you encounter an injury, you must disinfect it first and then bandage it to avoid infection. Commonly used external disinfectants include iodine tincture, alcohol, and hydrogen peroxide. Iodine tincture is convenient and painless for wound disinfection. Don't forget to bring a pack of sterile cotton swabs as well.

Never apply anti-inflammatory ointments or other drugs on open wounds, as this may cause the wound to be poorly positioned and difficult to heal.

Allergy medicine

Expert Recommendation:

Oral medication - Chlorpheniramine/Astemizole

Topical medications - Pevisone/Piyanping

Summer is the peak season for the spread of pollen from various plants. If you are allergic, you should be careful. If you go to places with many flowers, you are likely to suffer from pollen allergies. The main symptoms are sneezing, runny nose, tears, itchy nose, eyes and external auditory canal, erythema, papules and small scales on the skin. In severe cases, it can also induce tracheitis, bronchial asthma and cor pulmonale.

If a rash appears on your body, you can first apply pevisone/piranhatin (contains hormones, cannot be used for a long time, and should be used with caution in children), which has anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory and antipruritic effects. If there are many rashes and the itching is severe, you can take oral anti-allergic medications such as chlorpheniramine and astemizole.

Insect and snake bite medicine

Experts recommend: Floral water, infant lithospermum cream/calamine lotion, pevisone/dermatitis cream

Summer is also the season when snakes, insects, rats and ants are active. To prevent mosquito bites, you can spray mosquito repellent on your body in advance. In case of bitten, adults can apply pevisone/dermatitis cream externally, while infants and young children can use special topical medications such as comfrey ointment, compound calamine lotion, etc.

In addition, you may be bitten by poisonous insects such as scorpions, centipedes, and wasps when you go out for an outing. In this case, you can take anti-allergic drugs orally and apply pevisone/dermatitis cream on the wound. If the situation is serious, you should seek medical attention immediately. If you are bitten by a venomous snake, oral medications you bring with you may not be effective. You should quickly clean the wound with clean water, wrap a tourniquet/bandage around the upper part of the wound, and then seek medical attention nearby for an injection of anti-snake venom serum and targeted treatment.

Motion sickness medicine

Experts recommend: Dizziness/Dizziness

People are particularly prone to motion sickness when they are empty-stomach, overfed, tired, or mentally stressed. If you are prone to motion sickness, it is recommended that you take motion sickness medicine, such as Dramamine, Cialis, or any motion sickness medicine you think is effective, half an hour to an hour before boarding.

Please note that babies under one year old cannot take motion sickness medicine. Parents should open the car windows appropriately to keep the air in the car fresh; do not let the baby see the fast-moving scenery outside the car window; try to divert the baby's attention: for example, give the baby toys to play with, tell the baby stories, etc.

Gastrointestinal medicine

Experts recommend: Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, Huangliansu Tablets, Smecta

You may have eaten unclean food or raw, cold or other irritating food due to greed, which caused vomiting and diarrhea. You can drink some Weishu Granules, Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, or take some ranitidine, berberine tablets, etc. Huoxiang Zhengqi Water contains alcohol and takes effect quickly. Children with indigestion can drink some Baoji oral liquid. If the stool is watery, it may be a bacterial infection. They can take some Smecta to resist for a while and seek medical attention in time.

Special reminder: If you are an elderly person who already has underlying cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, remember to bring your daily medicines such as antihypertensive drugs, hypoglycemic drugs, etc. when you go out, and also bring some nitroglycerin, quick-acting heart-saving pills and other heart emergency drugs.

Cold medicine

Experts recommend: Xin Kangtai Ke/Day and Night Baifu Ning, Children's Tylenol, Ai Chang

The weather is changeable, and when you go out for fun, you are tired from traveling and are prone to catching colds, fevers and other illnesses. Therefore, adults can take cold and fever-reducing medicines such as Xin Kangtai and Riye Baifuning; recommended medicines for children are Tylenol (fever reduction) and Aichang (cold, cough and runny nose), etc.

Traumatic injury medicine

Expert recommendation: Yunnan Baiyao spray

When going out for fun, it is inevitable that some joint sprains and falls may occur. At this time, you can use Yunnan Baiyao spray to promote local blood circulation and accelerate the reduction of swelling. It is simple and easy to use.

thermometer

Used to measure body temperature, others include: scissors, tweezers, safety pins, plastic gloves, etc.