Category	Common brand	Our brand	Chemical name	Dosage	Qty carried	Qty notes
Antacid	?	Nutralox	Calcium Carbonate	420 mg	2 courses	2 pills/course
Antibiotic	Cipro®	Ciproxyl 500	Ciprofloxacin (as HCL)	500 mg	2 courses	10 pills/course
	Zithromax®	Azicine	Azithromycin	250 mg	2 courses	6 pills/course
Anti-Giardia	Tiniba	Trigyn®	Tinidazole	500 mg	3 courses	4 pills/course
Antihistamine	Benadril®	Diphen	1-diphenhydramine HCL	25 mg	2 pills	as needed
Anti-malarial	?	?	Doxycycline	100 mg	42 pills	1/day
Antimotility	Imodium	Colodium®, Loporal CPE	Loperamide Hydrochloride	2 mg	30 pills	1pill/loose stool
Fever reducer	Motrin IB®	Motrin IB	Ibuprofen	200 mg	4 pills	as needed
Pain killer	Panadol®	Panadol®	Paracetamol	500 mg	11 pills	as needed
	Aleve®	Aleve®	Paproxen Sodium	220 mg	50 pills	1/six hours
Urinary/bladder	Bio-organics®	Bio-organics®	Vaccinium oxycoccus	100 mg	30 pills	1/liter water - as needed
Vitamins	variety	variety	Vit E (skin), Zinc (healing), Multi (general)			as needed

Supplies	Brand/Author	Notes
Medical book	Eric A. Weiss	Wilderness and Travel Medicine, sold with Adventure Medical Kits, ISBN 0-9659768-0-7 Probably most important item
Bandage	Band-Aids	keep cuts clean
Electrical tape	?	stop blisters before they start
Molefoam	Dr Scholl's	Corns, calluses, blisters, tender spot care, cut to size
Gauze	Variety	Sterile gauze pads, sponges and wraps
Tape	3M Transpore	Holds gauze in place
Salt	---------	to remove leeches, drain blisters and more
Suture	3M Steri-Strip	adhesive sutures (stitches)
Safety pins	---------	Multitude of uses
Tweezers	---------	Important item to stop infections from ticks, splinters etc.

Ointments/pads	Brand	Notes:	Qty
Antibiotic	Neosporin+®	Number one item to include for cuts/punctures, etc.	1 tube
Sting Relief	Sting Eze®	Found this bottle - works wonders if used immediately	1 tube
	PDI	Benzocaine 6%	4 pkts
Povidone-Iodine	PDI	10% Povidone-Iodine solution	4 pkts
Antiseptic towelette	Moore Medical	Baenzalkonium Chloride, USP, 1:250	4 pkts

We have used little of this travel medkit so far. Andy has had a few bouts of giardia in Peru which have been swiftly dealt with by the tinidazole - though it took a 3 day course to get rid of Dana's. Loperamide has swiftly dealt with Dana's cases of chicken allergy (difficult food to avoid in South America). We came close to having to use the 3M Steri-Strip in Chile when a guy messing about on a quad on the ocean's edge managed to flip it and had the chain slice deeply into his leg. As the wound was close to a joint and he was within an hour of a hospital, he was sent to hospital with major shock. The salt has been useful many, many times, probably more than any other single item. The Sting Relief works on histamine problems as diverse as stinging plants to ant stings and fly bites. The ciprofloxacin killed Dana's severe food poisoning in a matter of hours, fever included, in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. We've used a few plasters/band aids on and off as needed. Eric A. Weiss's book has been a god send, if we were more obsessed by weight we would probably carry it and less of the rest, then at least we would know what to buy, the 'in the field' tips in the book are excellent too. Thanks to our good friend Jim for gifting it to us! I hope most of the above gets to remain excess weight in our packs.

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