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Here is a list of useful
medicines and dressings with a description of their uses.
Keep them in a box or cupboard with a lock - or store them well out of reach of children
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Paracetamol mixture- For relief of pain or fever in young children.
- Sedative Cough Linctus - For dry painful coughs - but not coughs caused by common colds.
- Menthol Crystals and Vapour rubs - Add to hot water to make steam inhalations for treating catarrh and dry or painful coughs.
- Vapour rub is useful for children with stuffy noses or dry coughs. Rub on the chest and nose.
- Antiseptic Solution - One teaspoonful diluted in warm water for
cleaning cuts and grazes.
- Antiseptic Cream - For treating septic spots, sores in the nose and grazes.
- Calamine Lotion - For dabbing (not rubbing) on insect bites and stings and sunburn.
- Dressing strips - plasters - For minor cuts.
- Cotton Wool - For cleaning cuts and grazes.
- Thermometer - For fevers.
- Tweezers - For removing splinters.
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