GerryS wrote:.....But a roll of Coban, gauze pads, an a bottle of saline will do wonders to help prevent infection and a SERIOUS problem.
Coban is incredible stuff--this is the stretch stuff that sticks to itself that is used to hold on the little cotton ball when you have a blood sample taken. It is expensive at CVS or Walgreens, so head on over to your feed supply store and check out
Vet Wrap on the veterinary aisle. It is the same stuff, but it comes in much wider rolls, in great colors, and is much much cheaper. I do a lot of mountain biking and this is the stuff. In the summer no form of tape will stick to people slathered in suncreen and sweat; you can put a nice stickless pad over the wound/scrape, and hold that in place with a nice bit of Vet Wrap till you can get to a place where it can be really cleaned up.
Coban/Vet WRap will eventually melt to itself after a hot summer, so I unroll a few feet of it, lay it on tissue paper and re-roll it so it isn't touching itself and store in the first-aid kit in the Camel Back that way.
Thanks for the tip on saline solution; I'll be adding that as well.
Don't forget to add in some
good carpenter's tweezers in that first aid kit.
PockeTweeze look good as well, if you are into life-time tweezers that can go on your keychain.
Glad you are recovered and ready to go at it again. For those with cell phones, and purses.....in a pocket where it is available or attached somewhere. My sister, the trucker, slipped on ice at a very lonely stop and her purse went flying. She broke the ankle so she had to crawl to the truck and climb up to get her husband awake. Hours later they got her to a hospital....What went wrong:
