Emergency Supplies: Emergency Survival Kits
Emergency survival kits have items that will help your children if they are injured in a household chemical injury. These disaster kits contain water and bandages that you may need to use. If your child eats or drinks a substance you will need to find the container immediately and call for emergency advice. There will be information on the containers that will help the medical professionals to assist you.
You can call 911, and emergency room, poison control, or emergency medical services for assistance. They will provide you with advice about what you can do while you are waiting for response teams to arrive. You will not want to give your child anything to drink until the medical professionals advise you to do so. If your child has chemicals in his or her eyes you will want to flush them immediately. You can flush the eyes with clear water for a minimum of 15 minutes. Continue to flush the eyes until the pain stops. Your emergency survival kits may provide you with additional first aid supplies that you may need.
You may need items from your emergency survival kits to cover any chemical burns. You can loosely wrap burns with sterile or clean dressings. You want the dressings to be loose so that they will not stick to the burns. You will have plenty of supplies in your safety kits for this purpose.
Emergency Survival Kits and First Aid
Immediate first aid can help your family members. When injuries are treated quickly, there may be less damage done. After you call 911 for help you should remove any clothing or jewelry that is around an injury. You can flush the burns until help arrives and cover burns to stop contamination. Victims of these injuries need professional medical treatment as quickly as possible.