Adventure Medical Kits Smart Travel First Aid Kit

Excellent Kit for Travel
I found this kit to be a really nice balance of essential items for the traveler or for a basic medical kit to keep in your car. Here are my impressions, broken down:* Nice packaging – I really like the case that comes with this kit. Unlike some hard cases in which first aid kits come packaged, this one has a soft-sided and zippered case that opens to reveal separate compartments holding the items. It even comes with a handy hook that you can use to hang it wherever. Nice touch. The case doesn’t seem to be especially heavy duty, but does appear to be reasonably well made.* In addition to medicines for pain and fever, the kit also contains antihistamines, antidiarrheals and antacids to take care of your stomach, critical when you are away from home.* The kit also has a small set of tweezers to take care of splinters, and moleskin to soothe blisters from a day out walking.* A decent set of adhesive strips and bandages are also included.* The kit comes with a book full of useful medical advice that seems to be well organized and informative. There’s no replacing training and education in an emergency, though; the book is good and handy, but you don’t want to be referring to it for critical first aid information when you are stressed out and in the middle of an emergency.The expiration dates of the medicines that came with the kit had about a year left on them, at the earliest. You should always check these, however, and make regular rotations of fresh medicine a habit for any perishable medical supplies and first aid kits.While well-appointed, this kit isn’t totally stuffed, so there is a little bit of room to add some of your own things, like prescription meds or additions of things you think you may need that are not already in the kit.I use this particular kit for domestic and foreign travel and as part of our car’s emergency kit. The size is good for a couple of people for a couple to a few days and doesn’t take up too much space in luggage – about the size of a small-to-medium toiletry bag. I have other medical kits for camping and backpacking that are better suited to the space and weight needs of these specialized activities.Good kit!

Hazardous/toxic pills in the Travel Medic Kit
The travel first aid kit appear’s to be interesting; however, Adventure Medical is known for selling first aid kits loaded with highly toxic so-called medicine such as Ibuprofen. Ibuprofen can cause severe health problems and potentially death.I encourage you to buy a software program called HyperHealth Pro (Amazon may sell older versions), because it offer’s natural medicine research and general medical research for thousands of conditions, toxic meds, natural food and herbal solutions, etc. Also, the software has the food/herb solutions you need to remove the toxic pills in your Adventure Medical Kits, and put in your kit some natural solutions in the several needed categories!Note: If people think my review is not helpful, they are delusional; because I am perfectly describing the issues with the first aid kits.

A good starting point, but
I find that EVERY medical kit on the market is lacking in some ways. This kit comes with a thick/heavy book for medical emergencies and honestly I’d have rather that it was eliminated and replaced with some additional first aid gear, more moleskins for blisters, more anti-biotic ointment, some anti-diarrehal meds, more meds for headaches and general aches and pains.But it, discard the book, use the space/weight saved to add more stuff.On the plus side the case is pretty nice, seems sturdy, ended up in my backpack for a 4 person 8 day trip after I customized it.

Keep in travel backpack
With small children and even work travel I keep this in my backpack in case an issue arises. Can add some other materials such as bleed stop packets. Recommend.