Hello, I'm going to talk to you about a mercy kit for you. Welcome back. This is Carlo with Biggest Little Adventures, a website and YouTube channel dedicated to the adventure, more cycling lifestyle. Today I'm going to talk about a toolkit for you. Alright? So a lot of us carry tire patch kits, in case we run over a nail or whatever. We carry some tools for some road-side repair, because we're worried that something happens to our bike. But a lot of us do not think about what is something happens to the rider, which is the more expensive piece of gear. That's why you need to carry a first aid kit. Now this first aid kit is a base BMW first aid kit that I was sort of an incentive, that I sweetened the deal when I bought my first 2011 GS adventure. So I didn't really pay for this or I did, just depends on how you look at it. But it was a good starting point. I've added to it and I want to talk to you about some of the things that I've added to it. The inspiration for this video came from Christmas dinner. One of my nieces turns out she has a food allergy that we think peanuts and her tongue starts swelling up, her face got red. She didn't go to full anti-flactic shock, but I was worried about her breathing starting to get restrictive because she was swelling up. I told people to go grab some benedrill, but there was no benedrill in the house. My aunt had just thrown it out because of the government expiration date. So we had to send someone to a store. If it was more serious, we would have to call an ambulance. But the fact is, is to find a road by motorcycle there. I would have benedrill for her. And we gave her two pills and within 10-15 minutes she was doing much better and it ended up going out with her friends that night. So simple things like that are things that you don't think of when you think of first aid kits. Pain relievers. A lot of all is a good pain reliever fever reducer, so I recommend carrying ton all. Ivy profan is a good anti-inflammatory. It's a pain reliever in the sense that reduces inflammation causing pain. The thing with Ivy profan is you have to sort of build it up in your system. It doesn't kick in as fast. A lever in a proxysodium is another good one. I would caution you to stay away from aspirin because it's also a blood thinner and people that are on two wheels that might slide and cause bleeding. Having blood thinners isn't the best idea. So one of the things, and this might just be from my military background, is I like to carry hemorrhagic control bandages, dressings. I don't know if the camera will focus in on that or not. But it's emergency bandage. So basically it's a pressure dressing that let's say you're riding through the woods and a stick pierces your forearm or bicep or something like that. You pull it out and it starts bleeding. This has blood clotting agents basically and a pressure dressing so you could ride to the nearest treatment center. This is the same thing and it could just be placed on different spots. Let's say you cut yourself open or something like that. It will stop the bleeding until you get to the doctors. So I carried a few different sizes of hemorrhagic dressing. It works wonders. It's battle tested. We used it a lot in the battle flusia. So, other thing is hand warmers, different heat patches. So these are basically the same thing as those oxygen absorbers that you find in your food. But they haven't been activated yet. So basically they have an exothermic reaction when it's supposed to oxygen. Just means they give off heat slowly. So having these, if I want to have these today when I was trying to create that windy video that you'll never see because it got ruined, my fingers froze and I couldn't feel anything. It was hard to ride home because I couldn't feel the levers. I wasn't sure if I was breaking or the clutch was in. So it was an interesting ride home. So hand warmers, the right thing to have. Okay? A pencil. Let's say you get lost. Pencil is good to have. You can sharpen it with the knife that you should always carry. And it doesn't spare like ink does and it doesn't freeze up in the cold like some gel type pens. Little sunblock. Sometimes you can might get stuck in the sun right now in the desert or whatever. And just low packs of sunblocks you don't have to carry a whole tube is good. Like day quill type cold medicine. If you're out on a long ride, you still got a ways to go or you're out camping and you start getting a cold. The worst thing is just to just be miserable and having a few 24 hours worth of cold medicine to help you get by is well worth it. Condoms, because you never know and they're also good for collecting water. Just don't get the lubricated type. That flavors it. A good pair of medical shears for cutting off any type of clothing from an injured rider. Those are good. I also threw in a little bag of a modium because the worst thing is let's say you're more psych camping and drinking out of stream and you get the trots. That's no good. Especially if you're in more cycle pants and you're riding and all of a sudden nature calls. So those are some of the things I added. Another important thing for me is I have algae pills because I am allergic to tree pollen and grass pollen. Alligee pills is something if I forget or run out I always know what's in my first aid kit. Another important thing the other day that I forgot I have my first aid kit and I wish I would remember is just simple saline solution. Eye drops would be fine too. If you have them for your contacts or like me I have some algae eye drops. But I was riding. I flipped up my visor to do whatever and a little nap went into my eyeball and you know I'm trying to not crash from a nap but it's in my eye and it's irritating so I had to pull over once I find a safe spot, get the nap out, little pieces of the nap were still in there scraping me and if I would just have something to rinse it out I would have been fine. But instead I had to ride with one eye depth perception on the way home. So I wish I would have remembered that. So simple ACE bandage is good if you hurt your wrist or something like that you laid down the bike and you always want to brace with your hand which isn't the best idea. So that's good. A cheap poncho. It's not very durable but if you're stuck in the rain and you're stationary and you're miserable, change on your tire or something like that. Having a rain poncho is invaluable. They don't take up a lot of room and they're cheap. Same thing with emergency blankets. Just a simple emergency blanket. They work wonders especially if you stick it inside a sleeping bag especially if you're sleeping we got sleeping bag got wet or something like that. That emergency blanket next to your body reflects that body heat back into and it increases your comfort level. Another 10 degrees. So if you're sleeping back straight into 40 and it's 30 you're going to be with a space blanket you're going to be able to sleep comfortably or at least more comfortably. The other things are just due dads. The one thing that people often throw out or don't replace as they use and first day kits are simple bandates. The eye dine and bass and tracin type deals, neosporn whatever you want to call it. These are important because simple cuts you can get infections. Now granite most likely you're not going to be away from home but if you're on a long road trip or something like that, cleaning that wound initially, whether you cut your hand open trying to work on the bike or whatever, cleaning that wound out initially and then keeping all the bacteria and gunk out of it after you've cleaned it is important because you don't want to get a simple cut infected. Now you're losing a finger because of gangrene or whatever or it's affecting your immune system because you have a bacterial infection now and it's starting to spread and you get a fever and all that kind of stuff that could have just been handled with a simple band aid. Another thing I like to carry is just simple athletic tape. You know that white athletic tape. I usually have that in my bike somewhere else, not in my first aid kit because it takes a lot of room but it could be used for a lot of things. It's sort of like in a quick fix it could be used as electrical tape or duct tape. Granite I wouldn't want to use it on live circuits because it's cotton and flammable but you could make makeshift band aids out of that. If you break a finger you could tape it to a good finger, et cetera you could tape it over your gloves. You could make a poor man's band aid with some clean x or a clean paper towel over the wound and then some athletic tape. So those are some of the things I like to add to the first aid kit because a lot of them will come with like two aspirin or something like that. So I put you know more in there and then medicine imports me so hopefully that helps and it will provide you a little bit of insurance buffer because there's no sense carrying tools and tire patch gets for your bike when the rider goes down. Once again happy holidays and I'll see you next year. Thanks again for tuning in to the biggest little adventures.