hi i'm ashley with j and a travel adventures and today i want to tell you how to make the perfect
first aid kit for international travel now i know what you're going to say you're gonna say ashley i
don't need a first aid kit well let me tell you uh nine times out of ten when you travel you're right
you are not gonna need a first aid kit but all it takes is that one time that hubby hollers from
a bathroom at the miami airport that something's going on his stomach and he's having such trouble
that he doesn't think he'll be able to leave the bathroom and you're not gonna make your flight
or it takes that one time that the 10 year old son who's going on 25 decides that he knows best
and he's going to wear his brand new tennis shoes to disney on an all-day park day and two hours in
he plops himself on the curb hollering his heel is on fire and he cannot walk another step and he
wants to go home or the best time that i ever use my first aid kit was when we were making
a long midnight flight from L.A. to Kuala Lumpur and it is horribly bumpy over the pacific and a
stranger sitting next to me says ma'am excuse me can you look in the pouch in front of you and see
if there's a puke bag because i think i'm about to get sick i suffer from motion sickness all it
takes is one instant like those and you will for that point forward the rest of your life when you
travel you will swear by having a first aid kit now many gurus will tell you that you need to have
a first aid kit like this which this first aid kit is great when you are going primitive camping or
when you're taking the soccer team to a tournament okay i give you take this with you when it comes
to international travel with hubby or with a couple family members this is really overkill
knowledge is overkill it takes up precious space and weight in your suitcases and it's going to
spend most of its time in the checked baggage in the bottom of the bus in the plane in the boat
where it does you absolutely no good so i'm gonna tell you the absolute perfect best first aid kit
you will ever have and to be exactly honest i go so far i don't have one of them i have one of them
in every one of the carry-ons that we take and you ready now pay attention this is your first aid kit
a snack size ziploc i go so far like i said in that i have one of these in every
of our carry-ons hubby has a side pocket on his backpack that i don't know what it's for there's
one of these in there and it goes in before we travel and i take it out when we get back home
i put mine into that pouch that holds my computer at the very bottom and my computer sits on top of
it and it just stays there in our roller bag that we do is carry on we've got this weird side pocket
i shoved this in there and it stays there the whole time and they said nine times out of ten
we do not ever pull this out but it's that one time that you need it that you will be sold now
let me tell you what all is in this let me turn the camera down so you can see okay here is my
first aid kit for our travel the reason i pack up one and every one of our carry-ons is it's rather
common for us to split up and somebody's going one way with hubby and somebody's going with me and if
i have one in every one of our carry-on bags i know that somebody else has the things with them
the other thing is that most of these items you're gonna be able to find in your bathroom cabinets so
feel free to grab them from there but if you need to have links or don't have so many supplies feel
free to use the affiliate links that will provide in the comments as well as the list that i of
things that i include in my first aid kit to make it easier for you to find these items the third
thing is that if you grab these things out of your medicine cabinet check their expiration date
in our life we rarely ever use imodium so it's more likely that i'm gonna throw it out before
we actually use it but so you want to make sure if you're in a desperate place that you're gonna
need to use this stuff you want to make sure that it's actually still good enough to use
last thing is make sure you know what the doses are of to give different people
so either write your instructions on your first aid kit so you'll know whether to give one tablet
or two tablet and how often to give them or what's even easier is snap a picture of the back of the
box on your phone and just keep it there so what do i put in my first aid kit first off imodium
makes people be able to get out of the bathroom and get on the plane and actually make it home
the next thing i have in here on the same line is pepto-bismol tablets they're chewable i like
when you do not have to find a water source and things work quickly on that same line different
line though i put in their tums there's nothing worse than riding along with somebody that's
belching and complaining about heartburn solves that problem the other thing i have in here
is my tylenol container and you can tell that i've used this one a lot it actually
in here does not have just tylenol what i do is i open it up and i split it and so i have in here
aceteminophen and ibuprofen because one is better of course from fever if somebody have a sudden
randomly shut shoots up as fever the other thing is it's good for aches and pains and headaches
so i combine them both in the same tube they're distinctly a different look and so you know
which one's which and so it's easier to save on space the other thing i include in here is
bonine bonine is mechathorazine and the reason i specifically like the brand of bonine
is one it's cheap and over the counter two is that it is chewable another fact is that if
somebody's feeling nauseous from motion sickness the last thing they want to do is have to swallow
some water it's chewable it's either cherry or orange depending on which flavor you buy and
it starts working within 10 to 15 minutes the last reason that i choose bonine over dramamine
this is non-drowsy it is just horrible if somebody takes dramamine who is very susceptible
and you're on a walking tour and you are about dragging that person to get them to finish the
tour this is non-drowsy so then you have your bumps and bruises supplies that i keep in here
um for cuts and things like that you gotta have your alcohol cleaned up you don't want things get
infected so for those i keep a couple of cloth band-aids because they have they stay on better
they bend and they also deal with sweat better the other thing i include that works better for
heels and blisters is that i have one of the waterproof foamy kind of adhesive band-aids
that once you stick it on the back of somebody's heel or on their big toe or
any of the rest of places that people get blisters this will make it where they'll be
able to go for the rest of the day the final thing i include in my first aid kit is cough drops it is
more common that i hand a cough drop to somebody in the same aisle that i am in when i'm flying
that is that i use them but there's nothing worse to be in the middle of the night and you've got
somebody coughing and coughing and coughing around you so this is what i put in my first aid kit
and like i said it is just enough to get you by because in all honesty nowadays with most travel
you're going to be on an airplane you're going to be in an airport you're going to be in a hotel
and if you have something major like a broken bone or a concussion
you're within their phone or hollering distance of somebody medical that can handle the major things
the goal of this is to handle those things that are annoying that will mess up your trip because
that one little blister on that little boy's foot can ruin a day now if you found this video helpful
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