There are some useful items that customers could benefit from keeping at home for basic first aid use, including:

• Plasters, in a variety of different shapes and sizes
• Various sizes of gauze dressings
• Sterile eye dressings
• Triangular bandage, which can be used to apply pressure and support a limb
• Crepe bandage
• Safety pins
• Sterile gloves
• Tweezers and scissors
• Cleansing wipes
• Adhesive tape.

Many of these products are also available in ready made first aid kits. Items such as antiseptic sprays and creams (example: Savlon Antiseptic Cream) and creams for insect bites (example: Eurax Cream) can also be useful to keep at home. Remind customers to check regularly that products are in date.