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I ask this because I just finished packing a pocket sized mini first aid kit, using supplies from our full size home kit. I'm sure people will mostly agree with the contents I packed, but does anyone have any other suggestions?

This is the kit I packed today, should I try to add anything else? There's not much space left, but I can probably stuff a couple other flat packet items in there, so am I like missing anything obvious that might fit?

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[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (22 children)

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.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What scissors? I'm not getting anything particular tied to Deviant Ollam

Deviant usually carries some TSA compliant folding scissors in his kits. I know fiskers makes a pair. And their scissors are usually decent quality.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The smallest size Swiss army knife is also a good option for tiny scissors that TSA doesn't care about, then you also get the bonus of knife, tweezers, toothpick, etc.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

TSA took my Leatherman Squirt PS4 when I forgot to check it. Only like a 1.5" knife. Smaller than that? I didn't think there was any compliant knife

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] triptrapper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

They're asking what the parent commenter meant by "deviant ollam folding scissors."

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