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I actually have some experience with this!
I travel a lot and always have an IFAK and a somewhat extensive "boo boo" kit.
The IFAK covers serious trauma, car crashes, GSWs, whatever. Haven't had to use this thank fuck. Standard stuff though, take your Stop The Bleed. I carry a tourniquet (I like snake staff systems), compressed gauze, pressure dressing, chest seals, trauma scissors, gloves. You can safely reduce this to the tourniquet and the gauze for 90% of use cases though.
The boo boo kit contains more comfort items, stuff to turn a moderately bad day into a mild inconvenience. It has a bunch of stuff but by FAR the most used items are these in order of frequency:
Ibuprofen - carry many doses
Small bandages - 3M Nexcare are the good ones
Moleskin - helps with shoe blisters, friends use it a lot
Deviant ollam folding scissors - for cutting moleskin, hangnails, whatever. TSA doesn't care about them.
Pseudoephedrine - the behind the counter stuff, NOT phenylephrine from the aisles. This is the good stuff, helps with allergies, mild colds etc.
I definitely forgot the moleskin in mine. I'll have to add that in next time I'm home.
Add crazy glue as an emergency substitute for stitches for mild to moderate cuts.
Triangular bandages, a shit ton of band aids, polysporin, medical tape, n95 masks, finger splints, duct tape, all the usual over the counter meds like pepto bismol and ibuprofen/naproxen sodium, salicylic acid. A laxative, anti diarrheal, some just add water electrolyte beverage solution, aloe vera, aveeno moisturizer, petroleum Jelly and a bottle of gin and a bottle of whiskey. Medicinal, of course.
Crazy glue sounds great too, but not for a pocket size kit that's gonna get tossed in our glovebox. Check the link I posted to see what all I packed..
Still, all advice is awesome, but also depends on the size of the first aid box...
There are very small crazy glue tubes.
That's not the point. The point is that this is gonna get stored in our glovebox, which will get hot and dry out in the heat of the sun.
Not saying that heat won't gradually degrade the other items, that's entirely possible, but if super glue is in there and decides to leak in even the slightest, it'll ruin everything else...
I'd still do it. A tiny superglue vial, even one that leaks, won't ruin anything.
Edit: Also probably won't leak.
You've clearly never worked with superglue then.
Last night I had to use a rasp file to file superglue off of my fingers, because the tube busted on me when trying to open it.
Note that I didn't say I filed my fingernails, I literally had to file my fingers, using a rasp file meant for wood no less.
I ain't trying to test and see if everything in an emergency kit might get glued together...
Maybe I have, used for moderate lacerations, and I don't suck? Maybe.
I've used superglue on myself before too, check my recent comments.
Point is, it ain't gonna store well in a vehicle glovebox. Not good for storage in a first aid kit, you want stuff that can last a few years or more...
This depends on where you live. New Hampshire, you're fine. Death Valley you have a point, but then I would trade cyanoacrylate for water.
South Mississippi here. I can usually find a store with super glue somewhere within a half mile radius of my area, in the meantime I can use the bandages or 2x2 inch pad and tape until I get to a store.
But yeah you're right, smaller first aid kits and survival kits are best arranged depending on the location and more common risks and needs.
Miss? You've got bigger problems than first aid.
Agreed ☹️
What scissors? I'm not getting anything particular tied to Deviant Ollam
Umm..
Context?
They're asking what the parent commenter meant by "deviant ollam folding scissors."