What is a home pharmacy?
Your home pharmacy or medicine cabinet should contain all the materials you need to treat minor injuries or illnesses.
Generally speaking, you will need
- Bandages and dressings
- Pharmaceuticals
- Hygiene products
- Other materials
These will be of assistance in your day to day life as well as in times of crisis, when it may not be possible to visit a doctor or pharmacy.
What you need
This list was compiled in co-operation with the Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists and serves as a guideline only. Be sure to consider your own personal needs!
Bandages and dressings
- 3 pieces gauze, ¼ m / sterile
- 3 pieces gauze bandages, 6 cm / firm-edged
- 3 pieces gauze bandages, 8 cm
- 1 piece elastic bandage, 5 m / 8 m
- 2 pieces emergency bandages, size 3
- 1 roll of adhesive plasters, 2.5 cm wide
- 1 packet of adhesive plasters with wound pad, 6 cm
- 1 piece metalline wound dressing
- 1 packet packet assorted plasters
- 1 triangular cloth
- Gauze compresses
- Safety pins
- Safety pins
Pharmaceuticals
- Prescribed medicines
- Painkillers
- Remedies for gastrointestinal complaints, diarrhoea, constipation, preparations to restore intestinal flora
- Temperature-reducing medication
- Ointment for burns
- Ointment for bruises and sprains,
- Cooling spray
- Antiseptic ointment
- Remedies for sore throats
- Surgical spirit
- Potassium iodide tablets *
- Wound disinfectant
- Nasal spray, cough medicine
- Eye drops for dry eyes and
irritation
* Only take potassium iodide tablets if expressly instructed to do so by the authorities!
Households with children
- Temperature-reducing medicines
- Electrolyte preparations for diarrhoea
and vomiting - Microclysters/enemas against constipation
Hygiene products
- Latex gloves
- Resuscitation face cover
- FFP2 masks
- Other equipment
Other equipment
For example:
- Clinical thermometer
- Bandage scissors
- Tweezers
- Leather finger guard
- Insect repellent/cream or spray to relieve insect bites and stings
- Sterile syringes and cannulas
