PracticalHealth’s Customised First Aid

August 24, 2008

Every Family should have a first aid kit in their home. But not every family’s kit should be the same, according

to the Singapore Health Promotion Board. The board has a few suggestions to get started.

• Thermometer – Either the traditional glass type or the new electronic kind is an important tool for monitoring fever.

• A small torch – This can be used to find small objects embedded in an ear or nostril, and to look at the back of the throat.

• Materials for treating small wounds – Cotton swabs, antiseptic solution, antibiotic ointment, gauze bandages and adhesive tape to secure it, and bandage scissors.

• Tweezers – For removing splinters and things lodged in the skin.

• Simple medications – Paracetamol, antacids, antihistamines for allergies and runny nose, cough medicine and diarrhea medicine.

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Laughter, The best medicine

So many of our health issues today  are caused by our worries and troubles.   There is much evidence that shows humor and a cheerful heart work like medicine but without the cost.  It even goes beyond healing the sick to prevention of so many illnesses caused by worry, anger and other feelings that turn inward.

Jokes

Blank Tape

Last Night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

Ham Bush

Two Starving Men are wandering in the desert when in the distance they see a tree, apparently covered in bacon strips. One of the men dashes towards it, but is shot.

As he expires he gasps to his companion, “Don’t come any closer. It’s not a bacon tree. It’s a ham bush”

Cicumcision

A woman came into my office to schedule a circumcision for her husband.  After the procedure, she questioned, “Are you sure he won’t have no babies now?”

“Mrs. X., he had a circumcision, not a vasectomy.”

“Damn! That’s the word I was looking for.” (From Weekly Medical Bloopers – March 9)

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