What do you have in your first aid kit?

[OakLeaf]

At home, for road rash and other wounds, raw honey and Tegaderm. If you've never tried raw honey on a wound, give it a try next time you get a scratch or whatever, I can almost guarantee you'll be amazed.

I don't carry a first aid kit on the bike - I figure that injuries fall into two categories: the kind I can wash off with my drinking water and grit my teeth and deal with until I get home (or until someone comes to get me, if I'm unable to ride), and the kind that require a 911 call.

It might be different if I were riding in a SUPER remote area. Then you'd want to think about things like splints, Betadine and suturing supplies (and some training in how to use them). Maybe one of those instant chemical ice packs. The kind of things that would allow you to drag yourself into phone range, and not to bleed out before the EMTs arrived.

Other than that, my "first aid kit" is my phone. I do have an emergency blanket jammed into my seat pack in case of shock and/or incapacitating injury (or even mechanical breakdown!) in cool weather. And if I were riding in remote areas, I'd borrow DH's SPOT device, or get one of my own.