Travel Safely: Create your own DIY first aid kit for the road

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Moody-

You raise a good point. The idea of antibiotics, for travelers in remote areas, is a very good addition to a medical kit.

My goal for this kit was to allow people to create a modular system, with this kit being the basic unit. This kit is designed for use in "developed areas". This is a great kit for travel to most any "city" in the world. For me, a city means a pharmacy, some doctors or nurses and a hospital.

If you are in Paris, Moscow or Lima, you will have access to some medical care. If that sore on the leg, that just isn't healing, starts getting worse...get some help.

Now, if you are a few days in the back country with some "questionable" medical facilities, this is another story. I am working on the next series of this post, about the wilderness/remote medical kit. I think it will be more along the lines of what you are talking about.

The idea is to have several kits, each for a specific purpose. The basic kit is tailored for travel in "developed" areas, only. As the need changes, add the standard kit to your "mountain/remote kit" and you are ready to go.

Thanks for the comment!

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