A Kilimanjaro medical kit

Monday 8th October 2007

Readers of my guide will know that in the book we describe what kind of medical kit a well-prepared trekker should take with them. This medical kit assumed that your guide had a reasonable medical kit of his own. But one reader has written in to ask what a guide’s medical kit should contain. It’s a good question – and if you were to ask fifty different guides from fifty different companies, I’m sure you’d get fifty different answers. But below is a medical kit list I acquired recently which contains just about every essential for the mountain. The medical kit is actually a good way of gauging the calibre of the company – if the agency you’re with supplies their guides with a medical kit that contains all of the following, they’re undoubtedly a good company to go with.

Dexamethasone anti-inflammatory
Amoxycillin Good against bacterial infections
Loperamide Good treatment for diarrhoea
Diamox Click here for information on this ‘wonder drug’
Ibuprofen Good for arthrisits and as an analgesic
Indigestion tablets
Paracetamol Analgesic
Waterguard tabs Water purifiers
OSR Oral rehydration powder
Hot lemon powder
Vicks rub
Cough sweets
Vaseline
Crepe bandage
Triangular bandage
Anti-inflammatory cream/gel
Plasters
Disposable gloves

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