How to you pack your first aid kit? I need a better version for a large group sized first aid kit. I want a small, cylindrical, hard container, with a wide opening, that isn't too heavy and contains 8-10 liters.
So I'm packing for a camping trip with my boys. I grabbed my ready-to-go first aid kit that I use for group canoe trips. It's pretty extensive and even contains a wilderness first aid manual, which also served as a guide for its contents. I keep the kit in a dry bag, specifically a sea-to-summit 13L Well, I just crammed it into a remaining void in my trunk, pushing it past a few hard edged containers, and BOOM, next thing I knew the entire car smelled like nail polish. Turns out I had crushed a vial of liquid bandage inside the kit and a major clean-up process ensued.
This is probably the third time I've had some liquid or cream inside the first aid kit explode or leak and foul other contents. Even today, I discovered that within another Ziplock bag therein, an oral painkiller leaked out of its container and stripped the printed label right off an adjacent tube of Lotrimin.
I don't like bulky, square pelican cases, because they don't pack easily into a canoe, or portage pack, but I can't keep using soft dry bags.
So I'm packing for a camping trip with my boys. I grabbed my ready-to-go first aid kit that I use for group canoe trips. It's pretty extensive and even contains a wilderness first aid manual, which also served as a guide for its contents. I keep the kit in a dry bag, specifically a sea-to-summit 13L Well, I just crammed it into a remaining void in my trunk, pushing it past a few hard edged containers, and BOOM, next thing I knew the entire car smelled like nail polish. Turns out I had crushed a vial of liquid bandage inside the kit and a major clean-up process ensued.
This is probably the third time I've had some liquid or cream inside the first aid kit explode or leak and foul other contents. Even today, I discovered that within another Ziplock bag therein, an oral painkiller leaked out of its container and stripped the printed label right off an adjacent tube of Lotrimin.
I don't like bulky, square pelican cases, because they don't pack easily into a canoe, or portage pack, but I can't keep using soft dry bags.
