Priorities after an accident:

- Check and evaluate the most severe injuries (e.g. bleedings) and patients and assess them
- Check if the injured person is conscious or unconscious (you can shake their shoulders if you are not sure)
- Check if they have open and clear airways (trick: if they can speak, they do)
- Respiration: is it normal? If the person doesn’t breathe and is unconscious, start CPR
- Examine the person thoroughly from head to feet and check for severe bleedings and problems with their circulation. If there were, press with gauze. Add more gauze if necessary but do not remove the first ones
First aid kit:

Your first aid kit should include:
- Waterproof band-aids
- Sticking plaster
- Roll gauze, can be washed and reused
- Scissors (to cut clothes and bandages)
- Safety pins to hold bandages
- Sterile dressings
- Ocular antibiotic
- Antiseptic ointment
- Nitrile gloves
- Antiseptic wipes
- Tablets (antihistamines, anti-inflammatories, analgesics, antidiarrheal)
- Alcohol gel to wash hands
- Depending on the destination: insect repellent, sunscreen, ointment with hydrocortisone

Superficial wounds
Any injury that brakes your skin carries the risk of infection because the germs can penetrate the organism. Keeping the wound clean is a challenge, but it is also essential.
Small cuts or grazes
Wash the wound with cold clean water and cover it with a dressing bigger than the affected area. For small wounds, you can use a band-aid, and for bigger wounds, you can use a sterile dressing and a bandage. Natural advice: Birch tinder is a fungus that grows on the sides of old birches and can be used a natural dressing. Cut a thin slice of the upper part of the fungus and place it on the wound (only if you are sure of the identity of the fungus!).
A foreign object on the wound
In the case of dirt or sand in the wound, foreign objects must be removed from the injury to prevent infection. When it comes to a bigger object (such as a big chunk of glass), do not try to remove it since it may be stopping the bleeding; instead, press the sides of the injury very slightly and keep the injured limb above the heart level.