Translations:Building a Basic First Aid Kit/7/en

Personal medication is a separate category. Items belonging to one person are generally kept apart from shared supplies, since medication that is appropriate for one individual may not be appropriate for another. This distinction is widely treated as important rather than merely tidy.

| Social=The social dimension of preparedness is easy to overlook. A guest who cuts a finger and is told, matter-of-factly, where the plasters are tends to feel looked after without feeling like an inconvenience. The absence of any such provision often produces a small awkwardness — apologies, improvisation, a search through drawers — that is disproportionate to the injury itself.