The Contents of My First Aid Kit

I present to you approximately a decade’s worth of first aid kit refinement. Emphasis is on completeness and lightness. Inside a custom silnylon envelope (with no zippers or fasteners that might slow down frostbitten, missing or otherwise failing hands), I have the following:

• An ultra-fine tipped 0.5ml syringe
• A 1ml glass vial of epinephren
• One half sheet moleskin and a small quantity of mole foam
• Ten butterfly adhesive bandages
• One package steri-strips
• Two 2” x 3” non-adhesive pads
• Some gauze, but not much
• A package of second skin
• Two single-use eye droppers
• Two stainless steel safety pins (one big, one small)
• A small quantity of triple antibiotic ointment
• One nitrile glove
• A miniature backup chapstick with sunscreen
• A single course of ciproplaxen
• Thirteen 500mg Vicodin pills
• Eleven 600mg ibuprofen pills
• Seven 120mg pseudoephedrine hydrocloride (Sudafed) pills
• Six diphenhydramine hydrochloride (Benadryl) pills
• Dosage and indication instructions for all of the above pills
• A SOAP note

Total weight is 124.7 grams (4.4 oz.). Don’t take this as medical advice.