Sometimes when you get a paper cut, it can be more painful then if you were to get a bigger cut. To prevent a paper cut from getting infected, it must be taken care of properly and immediately.

Instructions

1. Wash your hands completely with soap and water. This will help remove some of the germs that are currently in or around the cut. Don't just wash around the area where you have the paper cut. Germs can transfer from elsewhere on your hand when you go to apply your bandage. Make sure your hands are washed well.

2. Hold your hand over the sink and pour peroxide over the paper cut. It should produce a little bit of white foam. To be thorough, pour peroxide over the paper cut again.

3. Pat the area around the cut dry with a paper towel. Don't touch the cut at all, just dry off the area around it so that the bandage can properly stick.

4. Put a topical ointment on the paper cut. The ointment will help with the pain and will also help the cut heal properly. It is best to consult your doctor or a local pharmacist as to which topical ointment you should you use.

5. Place the bandage carefully over the paper cut. Make sure that the padded part of the bandage is completely covering the paper cut so that no germs can get in. Press firmly onto the sticky parts of the band-aid that are on either side of the padded middle to completely stick it to your skin.

Tips & Warnings

• Should you have any questions, talk to your doctor or local pharmacist. If the cut gets or looks any worse, don't take any chances and immediately contact your doctor.

Source: eHow

Summer is here, and along with summer comes the mosquitoes and every other bug that lives in the heat. Mosquitoes of course bite and leave one of the worse itches that any bug can possibly leave. You know that once you have been bitten, all you want to do is scratch it completely off, or find something to stop it from itching. Here are some great ways to help relieve that itching feeling from the mosquito bite.

Instructions

1. Grab a tube of Orajel, yes the toothache reliever and place just a little dab on the mosquito bites. This will immediately numb the skin and relieve that itching feeling for a couple of hours. Repeat once the itching comes back.
2. Get yourself a butter knife and place it directly on the mosquito bite. Press down and make an X with the knife. This spreads out the protein in the bite and stop it from itching for about an hour or so. Works just like your fingernail, just cleaner. Unless of course you have completely sanitized your fingernails.
3. Place a band-aid tight on the mosquito bite. This will completely stop all the itch until it is taken off. The best ones to use are the small circle ones that cover the bite completely.
4. Last but not least, a very hot wash cloth place directly on the bite will stop the itching for quite sometime. Try and make the wash cloth as hot as you can possibly stand it, without burning yourself. Repeat process when itching begins again.

While there are a number of first aid kits available for purchase, they often lack some supplies you need or have extras you do not need. Instead of buying the prepackaged version, you can save money and ensure that your kit includes everything you need by creating your own.

Instructions

1. Select a small box or bag which is light weight, portable and can hold all of your first aid supplies. Your kit should be waterproof as well, particularly if you will travel with it away from home; however, sealing your supplies inside of zipper baggies is usually all you need to do the job.


2. Make sure that your kit contains important basic medical supplies. The number of each item in your kit will depend on the size of your family; however, when it comes to bandages, gauze and other lightweight items, the more the merrier. Make sure your kit includes antiseptic wash, medical tape, anesthetic spray or lotion, 4-inch sterile gauze pads, various sizes of ace bandages and adhesive bandages, oral antihistamines, gloves, antibiotic ointment, scissors and tweezers.


3. Keep other must haves in your first aid kit as well. For example, if someone in your family has allergies, the first aid kit is a great place to keep shots or emergency medications prescribed by your doctor. You might also include emergency phone numbers, snake bite kits, ipecac, charcoal tablets or other items in your home first aid kit.


4. Separate your first aid kit into two sections. One section should include all of your basic medical supplies, such as bandages and ointments, while the second compartment should include medications. Again, make sure that everything is kept in zipper baggies.