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For minor cuts I'd give it a good suck to get any nasties out, dock leaves for nettle stings, if you're allergic to insect bites take remedial action as advised, but letting people know where you've gone and also taking your mobile phone with you is probably the best advice in case you are seriously injured.
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it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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What's the myth the urine being sterile or it helping a jellyfish stingOriginally posted by veggiechicken View PostBit of tangentisation - apologies
We were on holidays, snorkelling around and there was a swarm of little jellyfish that stung like crazy when they bumped into you. First aid, to counteract the sting, was to pee on it!
Bit difficult when its the top of your arm to do it yourself but there was usually a man around who could oblige
Wonder if that would work on a cut in the garden? Urine is sterile, I think!
EDIT - Just goggled this and it says its a myth and could make the sting worse! Fortunately, I was not the one who was stung by the jellyblabbers
it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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Being a doctors daughter and a doctor who did his degree during the blitz in Bristol, he insisted that my siblings and I knew basic first aid. So what is in my kit? Not a lot. I have a box of plasters, all of the most useful sizes have been used. I have antiseptic cream. A small bandage. I have been known to use clean kitchen tissue and cello tape mainly because in most cases the wound needs to dry to heal but not to be open to the air. It just doesn’t need to be under a plaster that encourages germs and goes yucky."I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live" (also Alexandre Dumas)
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On my site its most likely going to be someone having something like a heart attack rather than someone like me chopping a finger off (by mistake) - we keep telling folk to always take a mobile phone with em but... This time of year there are 2 hardcore allotmenteers who tend to be on the site no matter the weather - often not at the same time- and both look like they are 'dodging' summat...sigpic
1574 gin and tonics please Monica, large ones.Comment
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it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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1574 gin and tonics please Monica, large ones.Comment
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Back garden gardener here too so it ps into the house for me. On the jelly fish front my OH was stung years ago by a rather large jelly fish while we were holidaying in Tunisia, the guys there gave him tomato halves to rub on the sting. Worked a treat.sigpicComment
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It is a serious issue. A friend of mine who's getting on a bit had a stroke while out at his plot. No-one around and freezing cold. He managed to drag himself to his car and to start it to get into town. But he couldn't brake (lost all control of half his body) and had to crash into the cop station to stop. He's made a fair recovery but his wife worries every time he goes out to his plot now. Understandably.Originally posted by Baldy View PostComment
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my training is the TT marshal's course, so I'll take your helmet off, put a neck collar on you and ship by helicopter off to Nobles hospital (Douglas). Even if you've just cut your finger in Biggleswade...
IMO, the most important part of your first aid kit is the phone (assuming it works on your site - or the location of the nearest phone that does). The next most important thing is being able to give clear directions to the ambulance.Comment
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Another back garden gardener here. Sliced the side of my face vertically between eyebrow and hairline on a shed window so walked back up to the house. Couldn't really see it so calmly told my wife that i had cut myself and needed her help. Baby (probably about 5 months old) was in the lounge on one side of the house and i was in downstairs loo on the other side of the house... wife comes in to help and promptly feels wobbly so i sit her down on the loo and start sorting myself out, cleaning it whilst looking in the mirror and about to stick some steri strips on it (Mum's a nurse so our First Aid kit could sort out a minor military skirmish in a far flung developing nation) when i feel a large volume of air moving beside me so i turn and see my wife who's passed out and is diving head first towards the tiled floor. Manage to catch her, lie her on the floor and get her a cold flannel whilst finishing the repair job and running backwards and forwards across the groundfloor of the house to check baby is still playing happily on the playmat!!! All good fun and only a minor scar to remind me of the fun we all had!
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And this thread has reminded me that i should get a couple of packs of that clotting agent that the military uses to stop serious cuts as i have a chainsaw... Does anyone know the stuff i'm talking about and know the name of it?Comment
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On the plot there is a minimal first aid kit. Plasters, antisceptic cream, pain killers, antihystamine, a roll of paper towel etc. Car also has plasters and cream. After that I would make do with whatever and trust I didn't do any harm.Comment
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called celox, readily available either in granulated form or in an applicator (needleless syringe) or as the yanks use a treated sponge pad.Originally posted by Stan79 View Post
other than minor inconveniences handled by a basic first aid kit the most important first aid is going to be for trauma serious bleeding, something to keep you alive until real medical care arrives, basically staunch bleeding and apply pressure, celox helps but a decent wound dressing is essential. you could buy surplus military wound dressings which are handy and well packaged, or just buy a couple of what are called ambulance dressings from your chemistComment
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Lemon juice.
As virtually all plants and bugs sting with alkeline rubbing the lemon juice onto the affected area neutralises the alkeline and stops the sting and itching.
Vinegar works just as well but is pongy.I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison
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