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5 Tips For Getting You And Your First Aid Kit Winter Ready

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With the days getting shorter and nights longer, winters have finally arrived. Apart from preparing your homes for winters, you must prepare yourself and your first aid kit to make your life a bit easier. 

As first aiders, you should consider what extra equipment you may require in the colder months. In addition, outdoor first aiders should remain winter-ready with a first-aid kit that includes group shelter, foil blanket, and much more. 

However, if you don’t know how to make your first aid kit winter-ready, you can readily register for first aid training courses or keep in mind these top five tips that will help you and your first-aid kit get winter-ready. 

So let’s get started, shall we?

Stay warm

Staying warm in the dread of the cold is the first thing you need to do to prepare yourself and your first-aid kit for winters. During the winter season, the risk of casualties arising due to temperature reduction happens a lot. These casualties include shock due to extreme cold that primarily affects the brain, heart, lungs, and other vital organs. 

Therefore, it becomes important to remain warm and protected during the winters to ensure you don’t catch a cold. And, the best way to keep your body warm in winters is by adding a foil blanket to your first-aid kit. 

Night visibility

As the nights get longer and darker, they appear to draw in pretty quickly when you do not have a light source. Therefore, keeping a torch in your first-aid kit can be a lifesaver. In addition, having a light source, such as a torch, assists you in monitoring your casualty and dealing with it better. 

Food 

Food is likewise important for keeping you warm. Your body must burn fuel to produce heat and maintain a stable core temperature. In addition, high-energy carbohydrate bars are an exceptional addition to your first-aid kit as they have extended sell-by dates and provide an abundance of Kcals per bite.

A warm wrap up 

A group shelter is an excellent piece in your first-aid kit to keep at any time of the year, but it benefits you the most in winters, whether taking a break from the cold winter weather or dealing with a casualty. Apart from dealing with winter casualties, it keeps you dry and out of the wind. 

Emergency communications

You can use your torch as a signal for help and emergency communications. Therefore, keeping a torch in your first-aid kit is extremely important and is emphasized in many first aid training courses.

You can also put your torch on the brightest settings and cover the torchlight to signal emergency communications in the patterns (SSS, LLL, SSS) short, short, short – long, long, long-short, short, short. Some torches have an automatic setting that will signal and attract people’s attention. 

To benefit from a torch, you must ensure checking the batteries regularly. Additionally, you may want to try a hand-powered torch or one with solar charging. 

Final words 

In a nutshell, you do not have to be a full-on packer to make some intelligent options about winter readiness. Do not let any casualty catch you off-guard this winter season. You can probably skip the ice shovel if you are lucky enough to reside in warm weather. 

However, certain items are still a must-have in your first-aid kit, no matter where you live. If you need help with your first aid preparation, you can enroll in the First Aid Training Courses at West Coast First Aid Training.