How to put together Cheap Lightweight First Aid Kit for a couple of dollars to buy yourself a little insurance on your next hike. You can buy a ready-made first aid kit and spend between $3-120 dollars. I prefer to steal a couple of bandaids out of each of the boxes in the medicine cabinet. Any oddball stuff, like blister pads, you might need to go buy. Depending on how much I care about the well being of my hiking friends will determine how many options I add to the basic kit. I used to hike with children. Now that I hike with adults, I figure they should know better, but it’s nice to offer someone a little comfort once in a while.

Before your next hike, round us the following and stuff it all into a quart size freezer-weight ziptop bag:

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Burn gel

Alcohol swabs

Butterfly closures

Dr. Scholl’s Blister Treatment

various sized bandaids

3 Small & 2 Large & 2 Square & fingertip & knuckle

2″ guaze pads

Eye pad

Diphenhydramine 25mg (10x)

Acetaminophen 500mg (10x)

Hydrocortisone cream (tube)

Antibiotic Ointment (tube)

J&J First-aid Cloth Tape – 1 Inch

Liquid Skin or octylcyanoacrylate glue

Freezer-type ZipTop bag

== at this point, I’m at 6 oz!

elsewhere in pack:

Ace Wrapper

lip balm

insect repellent

Space blanket (mylar sheet)

more heavier stuff:

Instant Cold Pack

triangle sling

vinyl gloves

topical benedryl

Mosquito relief