Your vital travelling companion (Boots Travel First Aid Kit)

Member Name: mummy2harry

Product:	Boots Travel First Aid Kit
Date:	12/12/07 (159 review reads)
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Advantages: Durable bag, good selection of items, good value, easy access to all items

Disadvantages: Plasters not over sticky

Whenever you go anywhere with a young toddler, you end up carrying around with you a huge bag full of snacks, drinks, things to amuse them and a few plasters and a million other things as well. So I decided to make my life a bit easier when I went on holiday with my family and I went off to Boots to buy a First Aid Kit, so that I knew I would have everything I needed in one place, rather than stuffing my already full-to-bursting bag with more stuff!

I picked up this particular kit in the high street chemist Boots. Boots actually do 2 types of a first aid kit. This one is a travel first aid kit, and they also do a Family sized first aid kit, which is a bit larger than this one, contains a few more bits and is double the price of this one at a hefty £19.99. After carefully finding out what was in each, I decided that this particular kit, the travel sized one, would suffice for what I needed and so I handed over my £9.99 and the kit was mine.

The kit comes in a dark green nylon bag, which opens with a double zip. It opens right down each side and across the top so that it opens nice and fully, allowing easy access to all of the bits and pieces inside. The fact that the bag is made of nylon means that it is very hard-wearing and durable and will withstand a lot of rough and tumble, handy especially if you are taking it away on holiday. It also has a large First Aid symbol on the front, along with the words "Travel First Aid Kit" so it is easily identifiable.

Now, what does the kit contain you ask? Here is a list of all of the items that I got in mine:
* 24 assorted waterproof plasters
* 1 fabric plaster strip
* 3 antiseptic wipes
* 1 crepe bandage
* 1 Melolin 5cm x 5cm
* 1 Melolin 10cm x 10cm
* 1 Micropore tape
* 2 blister plasters
* Boots Bite and Sting Relief Antihistamine Cream
* Scissors

As you can see, you get a good variety of products which will help in most first aid situations in the kit, so you will be well prepared on your travels. All of the items are individually wrapped so they are all sterile, the plasters are in a small zip lock bag for easy access, and the scissors and melolin and are well protected in one of the side zip pockets inside. Inside the bag, there is the main area and each side has a netted zip up pocket for items to be stored in, and the net allows them to be easily seen.

As well as these items, I managed to also stuff into mine Nurofen sachets and a spoon, aspirin, Savlon cream and Antiseptic spray, and also some more plasters of my own, so you really can get quite a lot in the deceptively small pouch that it comes in! The zip closed easily, although the bag was full, and I had no problems with it bursting open or anything, it was actually really good and I was impressed with the good quality.

The items themselves are also of good quality. I found the bite and sting cream was an invaluable addition to the kit, and we used nearly the whole tube in Mauritius! I found that Boots own label plasters aren't especially sticky, so I actually chose to include some elastoplast ones as I find these better. All of the other Boots brand products were find and did the job fantastically. I really can't complain about the value of this kit, as you save around £10 by buying these items in the kit as opposed to buying them all individually.

I would thoroughly recommend this kit for anyone going on a holiday or even just a day trip as it really does contain most, if not all, of the things that you need for basic first aid for yourself and your family. The durable bag is handy for keeping all of the items together, and it is hard-wearing and well made so you don't have to worry about it falling apart. The price of £9.99 is very good considering all of the items you get, and well worth the spend for me.

For more information on the kit, see the Boots website:
http://www.boots.com. Information on the larger kit that Boots sell is also on the website.

Thank you for reading.

Summary: Super little first aid kit