Do you have smelling salts in your first aid kit?

[tvguy]

I was cleaning out the medicine cabinet at my mom's and she had smelling salts in there in the first aid kit. I can't remember the last time I saw smelling salts. I will have to check our first aid kit at work to see if we have them in there.

Used to be in the movies when someone fainted, they revived them with smelling salts and they went about their business. Now we call 9-1-1 and they end up in the E.R. with a $2,000 ambulance bill and a $10,000 E.R. bill.

 

[GigglyFigment]

I can't remember the last time I saw smelling salts.

I see them taped to a cabinet in doctor's offices and ER rooms all the time.

And it's not a bad thing to call 911 when someone passes out. If it's unusual behavior, chances are it is an actual emergency. And in that case, shoving smelling salts under their nose and jarring them awake isn't always the best idea (kind of like how I wouldn't take medical advice from movies/tv anyway).

 

[low-key]

I thought it was smelling "sauce"

 

[Micca]

I was cleaning out the medicine cabinet at my mom's and she had smelling salts in there in the first aid kit. I can't remember the last time I saw smelling salts. I will have to check our first aid kit at work to see if we have them in there.

Used to be in the movies when someone fainted, they revived them with smelling salts and they went about their business. Now we call 9-1-1 and they end up in the E.R. with a $2,000 ambulance bill and a $10,000 E.R. bill.

Much cheaper to get the sheriff to take the wagon into town and get 'old doc Hartley. Doc's services could usually be bartered for a hen and a bottle of whiskey.

 

[Fire14]

I just had a pt "black out " on me week ago, her dr. made her get ammonia capsules to keep at her house for us to use if it happens again. Doc was also upset she didn't go to ER but let's just say you can tell the horse to drink but horse will do what horse wants to do.

 

[GraysMom]

I don't remember seeing them in many first aid kits, but I know they have them taped on the walls of the hospital rooms because they needed to use one on me the day after DS was born 8 years ago (blood loss+Tylenol 3=not a good combo for me!).

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I've never even seen smelling salts. Now, Mercurechrome-I remember that orange stuff we used to put on cuts.

 

[jenflamingo1]

What's so terrible about passing out ? Why the urgency to wake someone up ? Especially if they are in a safe place such as an examining table or on a cart or in a hospital bed . Most of us will pass out/experience syncope at some time in our lives . Of course , the reason will need to be determined and treated , but ,really why bother with smelling salts in the first place? They'll probably come around pretty quickly... and if not , do 911/CPR.And if the reason they passed out is anything at all serious , a whiff of smelling salts are not going to help much.
I just have never gotten the urgency.

 

[krcit]

I fainted in 8th grade and I remember the nurse putting them under my nose. Gross.... I still remember how I just wanted to keep my eyes closed but they kept shoving that under my nose saying "open your eyes! wake up" I passed out after having my oldest daughter and they used them on me then also.