HOME HEALTH GUIDE
HAVE YOU A FIRST-AID OUTFIT. SOME PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. (By the Health Department). It can happen here, and it is just as well to be prepared with a firstaid outfit ready on call. There may be cuts, wounds and burns to dress at a moment’s notice. There should be in each house enough facilities to take care of simple injuries, and to give relief in more serious cases until the first aid post or emergency dressing station is reached. A first-aid outfit docs not have to be expensive. The Department recommends the following as meeting emergency resuirements in the average small home: —
Bandages: One triangular, several one-inch and two-inch bandages. Lint: Four-ounce packet, of plain sterilised lint. Adhesive piaster: One yard. Tincture of lodine or Friar's Balsam: Four ounces of cither. Castor oil: One ounce. For use as soothing first aid fur eye injuries. Small bottle of disinfectant. For burns: One tube of tannic acid or gentian violet jelly (or vaseline and eucalyptus, or cod liver oil). Such things as aspirin, safely pins, and scissors can be supplied from household stock.
A tourniquet for serious bleeding can be improvised from a bandage, a tie or a belt, twisting a stick through the knot and tightening gently. Be careful to release the pressure at sufficient intervals. First aid treatment of wounds consists of stopping bleeding and preventing germs from getting into the wounds. Plaster will keep the dressing in place. Treat burns immediately. A tannic acid jelly, such as Tannafax, is good except for serious burns on face or hands, but gentian violet jelly can be used anywhere on the body.
Leave fractures alone until the firstaid squad arrives. Shock is serious. The victim's skin becomes pale and covered with cold clammy sweat; the lips and nails may be blue, and the pulse rapid and hard to find. Keep the sufferer warm until medical aid arrives, and use a teaspoonful of sal volatile in water, or hot water, tea or coffee as a stimulant.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1942, Page 5
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335HOME HEALTH GUIDE Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1942, Page 5
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