Medical Kit
Many of the items in my recommended medical kit should have been packed already as a matter of course. The remainder is designed to give you piece of mind rather than save your life. Remember that pharmacies are common in the Dominican Republic; and in cases of emergency a medical kit should never replace on-the-spot medical advice. With this in mind, a traveler's medical kit could include the following:
- plasters (Band Aids)
- scissors or a knife and a pair of fine pointed tweezers
- a good drying antiseptic such as iodine or potassium permanganate (not antiseptic cream)
- antifungal cream (eg Canesten)
- calamine lotion to ease the discomfort of sunburn and over-scratched mosquito bites
- malaria pills (and possibly a malaria treatment kit) depending on where you are traveling
- clean syringes
- a good sun-block lotion
- mosquito repellent
- aspirin or paracetamol
- antibiotics: Ciprofloxacin 500mg x 6, Norfloxacin or Nalidixic Acid for severe diarrhea; another broad spectrum antibiotic such as Amoxycillin for chest, urine and skin infections
- condoms (or femidoms)
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