Cheap Bandages and Dressings.

[Brambles]

The Brambling took the top off his finger a couple of weeks ago and we have exhausted the supply of small bandages and dressings. Anyhoo, for First Aid (not major incident!) supplies I found a pack of 5 assorted conforming bandages and a pack of 10 non adeherent dressings in the pound shop. you can guess the price
For the first aid kit, a bit of a bargain.

[pseudonym]

Hope he heals quickly.

Poundland really does some cheap but useful stuff.

[Brambles]

Hope he heals quickly.

Poundland really does some cheap but useful stuff.

All healed up. The top came off the other day and you can't see where it happened the nail has yet to start growing. It did put a serious strain on the first aid kit though and we now have plenty small stuff including finger sized tubigrip and some finger stalls. It's all very well planning for the next disaster until you find yourself scuppered by lack of handy sized stuff!

[Yorkshire Andy]

Keep an eye in Lidl for car first aid kits usually a fiver for a pile of bandages / wound pads / dressings

[Brambles]

Will do.

[Deeps]

I've got big packets of random plasters etc off ebay in the past too.

[Arzosah]

I'm glad to hear the Brambling is okay now, that sounds a hefty wound if it's interfering with nail growth

Wondering about bandages - I've got my share of ordinary bandages as well as quite a bit of crepe, which is very nice: but with the dressings we have available, they're really just about keeping a dressing in place, aren't they? So in an emergency (say, a flu pandemic was declared, and you'd run out because of something like what just happened to the Brambling) you could cut up a cotton shirt, even if you then had to sew strips together?

Plus I didn't know what a conforming bandage was ... and what I've found out kind of invalidates my query above though of course anything's better than nothing ...

[Brambles]

It really did show up a gaping hole in the First Aid supplies. I have plenty of heavy duty stuff and plasters, but for injuries inbetween that are too much for a plaster but not enough for a full-on trauma dressing well, lets just say we came up very short, 3 days of daily dressing changes to be precise!

[Deeps]

It really did show up a gaping hole in the First Aid supplies. I have plenty of heavy duty stuff and plasters, but for injuries inbetween that are too much for a plaster but not enough for a full-on trauma dressing well, lets just say we came up very short, 3 days of daily dressing changes to be precise!

I was going through my FAK's a couple of weeks back and seem to be lighter than I thought on the adhesive/non adhesive pads too, in my case they may just be badly stowed, I really need to have a tidy. No harm in getting some more in I guess......

[unsure]

body shop , they do cheap first aid , i picked up some self adhesive dressings today , a pound a pack of 4 , and bandages a pound for 3 . the do have all sorts of other stuff as well .