Mini First Aid Kit for Backpackers

Just put together a mini first-aid kit that should cover what we need.

• Athletic Sports Tape, 9m – Can be cut for small band-aids or large sprains.  And as Tim Ferris points out, it’s a life saver and doubles as duck tape (though I’ll be bringing that along as well)
• Sterile Pads – can be used with the sports tape for homemade band-aids or gushing wounds.
• Band-Aids – So you don’t have to go ghetto with sports tape and tissues.
• Ibuprofen – For hangovers, headaches, and general pains
• Neosporin Antibiotic, max strength
• Benadryl (Diphenhydramine) – great for allergies, minor colds, or falling asleep on overnight trains/planes
• Clartin – generic versions for my allergies
• Dental Floss, 200yrds – Unobvious uses include sewing or tying something together.
• Large Nail Clippers – cause we’ll be living the fancy high life :p
• ChapStick – I went medicated
• Gold Bond – For all over, from your feet to ‘down there’.  I went extra strength medicated.
• Meds:
  • Malaria Medication – Doxycycline, daily, 2 days before, 28 days after
  • Anti-Diarrhea Medication – Azithromycin

Updated in new sporty plastic box.  Now to find some Pepto Bismol…