Bandages included in First Aid Kits

Bandages included in First Aid Kits
One important item in the kit that you'll always find, is of course, bandages. Well, you need adhesive bandages in a kit. There's lots of variations and different types of bandages for different cuts and lesions. For example, here I can show you some different types of bandages. Here is a bandage is like a very large bandage, of course, and let me just take it out of the package. And these are for big cuts and and big wounds that would cover the whole area of that lesion or that wound. And, here is your standard strip, bandage strip, for little cuts and lesions and let me take that out of there. So, different sizes and different types of bandages are for different reasons. Here, I think, it's important to get something, this is called a butterfly bandage. And, this is for real deep, open cuts. And, maybe we can show that to you later, diagramatically or we have a volunteer where you have a deep lesion you put this butterfly bandage so that you keep the two open cut ends together and keep the closure to keep it neat so that at least when the cut is healing it heals in a nice manner and you don't get a horrible nasty scar. So, these are butterfly bandages. So, I'm going to just show you how to use a butterfly bandage. Here we have a simulated lesion and this red mark is the simulated open cut. So with the butterfly strip bandages it's shaped in this funny little sort of, I don't know, I can't describe it. But, what you do is you take off the backing and it's the narrow part that goes over the cut. So, say this is the cut of course . The cut will be opened up like this if you were to push the two open ends apart. So, you want to always, when you put the butterfly, push it together. Push one end, you stick one end down, let's do that first, and then you push the two open cut ends together to match and make it really close together and then you just put the other end down. And here of course the lesion is longer than the butterfly so you can add another one next to it and that's it. It will heal and the scar will be less scaring and even if there is a scar it will be at least look a little bit cosmetically better, esthetically better when it heals. So, that's just to show you how to use a butterfly bandage. So this is just some examples of different types of bandages you can buy. There are many more different types you can buy in the drug store or if you don't have it in your kit and you think that you want to, you know, add on to your basic first aid kit.