Dog First Aid Box: 33 Essential Contents
Before an emergency ever arises, it is a good idea to have a dog first aid box on hand. You can buy one online, like the Bow Ow Dog First Aid Kit or make your own. Here is what the contents should include:
- Kit Box - A large tackle box with numerous compartments will work well.
- Paperwork - Use an index card to write down the regular vet clinic hours and phone number, emergency vet clinic hours and phone number, poison control number, and your dog's health record and medications.
- Muzzle - Buy one from the pet store or be able to make one with a leash, necktie, or panty hose.
- Manual: First Aid for Dogs
- Surgical Gloves to keep the area sterile and reduce transmitting disease/infections
- Cotton Balls
- Gauze pads of varying sizes
- Gauze rolls
- Wound compression pads
- Ace bandages
- Packing and first aid tape
- Blunt-tipped tweezers
- Blunt-tipped scissors
- Large, needleless syringe to give liquid medications
- Ear syringe to flush out debris
- Eyewash (such as contact lens solution)
- Antibiotic ointment
- Rectal thermometer
- Empty paper towel holder (for tail splint)
- K-Y Jelly
- Chemical ice packs and hot packs
- Blanket
- Any medications that your dog regularly uses.
- Hydrogen Peroxide or rubbing alcohol to clean out an open wound
- Neosporin or a triple-antibiotic (can be applied directly on clean open wounds to reduce contamination)
- Syrup of Ipecac to induce vomiting
- Pepto Bismol for diarrhea, vomiting, and gas.
- 25-milligram diphenhydraminine (Benadryl) capsules (for allergies)
- Bottle of water in case of dehydration
- Pedialyte or other electrolyte fluid (to aid in restoring your dog's normal body chemistry)
- Buffered aspirin for pain relief and as an anti-inflammatory
- Maximum strength Kaopectate tablets for diarrhea
- Benadryl to treat allergies, insect stings, and itching
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