Antiseptic wipes
Dressing
Duct tape fixes body parts aswell
Nurofen
Butterfly stitches

What more do you need?

skidartist – Member
I remember when I did my first aid badge as a cub scout one of the things on our checklist for a first aid kit as a 2p coin. Somehow I never grasped the point of the coin was for making a phone call, and until quite recently I imagined there must be some sort of esoteric and archaic first aid procedure that required a small grubby disk of copper.

Not a first aid use for a coin, but a genuine (if very, very old fashioned use of a coin) on babies with umbilical hernias used to be to use a largish coin to help hold the hernia in place if it could be reduced. I think things have got more hi-tech nowadays, and I don't think I saw this used more than twice in 20 odd years.

Re space blankets, they're sometimes not the best:
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I usually have a bright orange "survival bag" type affair, agree bigger & heavier than a space blanket but TBH an extra clothing layer might be more useful for most situations.

Drac is a really small dude who I pack up and put him in my camelback. All you ever need.

On a more serious note, I seem to remember being told that some glue, tape and a sanitary towel is about all you need. Any more than that then call the pro's (see above about Drac).

For guiding:

Couple of big military dressings
Steri strips
Duct tape
Antiseptic (in a wee tiny bottle)
Swabs (for using with the antiseptic)

And, because I get asked for them all the time when MTFU would be my personal response:

Selection of plasters/small dressings

Duct tape
Zip ties
Puncture repair patches
Water in water bottle
Money to buy pain killing booze

Don't have a specific First Aid kit but used the above for first aid (apart from zip ties – maybe they could fix a limb back on?) in the past.

I tend to carry some plasters, dressings, tape and some antiseptic. Just invested in a bivvi bag type thing for days walking / riding in the peaks.

Think some steri-strip type things might be useful…where do you lot get them from?

Since going out with no phone for a quick spin round town…and cutting open my knee down to the bone, followed by A&E, I carry a small bit of paper with friends/relatives numbers on. Couldn't remember anyones' number at all.. 🙁 …damn you, word based phone number storage interfaces!

One Ambulance Dressing. End of story. It'll (help) stop life threatening bleeding, and it can tie 2 legs together or make a sling. Its all you need. Anything else is fairly pointless guff.

Nurse of 23 years, Mountain biker of 22 years here;

Duct tape.

If you can't fix it with duct tape, phone for help.

Antiseptic wipes? no use at all.

Space blanket? Rubbish; if you want protection, take a big emergency bivvy style plastic survival bag.

Steristrips? Use duct tape, it sticks better.

…and duct tape can be used to fix your bike too.