Medical Equipment

Bought in the UK before we left

Bought along the way

Sterile Kit:

Pain Killers:

Diarrhoea:

First Aid:

braided silk suture & needle x1

Paracetamol x 16 tablets

Diocalm complete x 4 boxes

Plasters various sizes

Scalpel blade x1

Anadin Extra x 16 tablets

Japanese oil of peppermint 10ml

Bandages various lengths & sizes

Adhesive dressings x4

Ibuprofen 200g x 16 tablets

Apo-Loperamide 2mg x 18 tablets x 2 boxes

Antiseptic cream, & wipes

Disposible syringes: 1x 10ml

Asprin+paracetamol x 16 Caplets

HHP; Diarex tablets x 30 in Jaipur India

Clove oil (for toothache)

2x 5ml

Himalaya herbal products Pain Balm in Jaipur India

HHP Bael fruit tablets x 60 in Jaipur India

Microporus tape

2x 2ml

Steroplast tape

Disposible needles: 1x 19g

Antibiotics:

Coughs & Colds

Safety pins

2x 21g

Mark - Metronidazole 400g x 21 tablets

Strepsils

Steri strips x 1 box

2x 23g

Amy - Erythroped A 500g x 28 tablets

Lemsips, various

Travel sickness tablets

1x 25g

Amy - Ciprofloxacin 500g x 10 tablets x 2 boxes

Olbas Inhaler

Intravenous cannula (drip needle) 1x 18g

Ciprofloxacin 500g x 10 tablets x 2 boxes in Islamabad

Happy Nose

Anti Malaria:

Wound closure strips 6mm x 75mm

HHPTulasi tablets x 60 in Jaipur India

Doxycycline 100mg x 100 tablets each

Antiseptic cleansing swabs x4

Paludrine & Cholroquine

Immunisations

We began our courses of immunisations on 1st April 2005 and had the last one on 1st June 2005. Make sure that you seek medicxal advice at least 3 months in advance.

Amy & Mark

Hepatitis A

Typhoid Fever

Meningococcal Miningitis A,C,W135,Y

Diptheria/Tetanus/Polio

Hepatitis B

Rabies

Japanese B Encephalitis

We were advised to take Paladrine and Chloroquine for Pakistan through to the end of India and then just before we enter South East Asia we should start the Doxycycline.