Why does my first aid kit include chalk?
hobart paving asked:
I bought a ready-made first aid kit. The kit includes lots of sensible medical supplies such as bandages, iodine, antibiotics etc. But what’s with the sticks of chalk, why is chalk in a first aid kit?
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I bought a ready-made first aid kit. The kit includes lots of sensible medical supplies such as bandages, iodine, antibiotics etc. But what’s with the sticks of chalk, why is chalk in a first aid kit?
March 8th, 2009 at 10:56 am
So you can write HELP on the pavement.
March 10th, 2009 at 12:49 am
so you can do the chalk outline of the body…..
March 12th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
So you can write HELP or SOS
March 13th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Drawing chalk outlines of people when you come across an accident scene to help save time for the police?
March 15th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
To draw around the dead body, lol.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Well the chalk is in there for if you get lost in the woods, jungle, ect. and you have it with you, you can mark the trees or anything else solid to help you keep your path so you dont get anymore lost…or in a survival situation, if you have a stomach ache, you can eat it believe it or not…and it helps absord acid……it is made from an ingredient that is in pepto bismol.lol.
March 21st, 2009 at 7:08 am
It might be a septic pencil to stop minor bleeding and not chalk at all.
March 22nd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
So you can trace the dead body. You see police men and women are getting lazier and lazier on us so they just are giving us the go ahead to start the process without them.
March 25th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
It’s in case you have a hopscotch emergency!
It’s probably a stypic pencil to stop bleeding.
March 27th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
These are just guesses, but…
- Marking purposes, if there is any ’survival kit’ or wilderness aspect to your kit.
- Chalk is calcium carbonate, the main ingredient in things like Tums. Maybe they meant it for a calcium substitute.
- Maybe is is designed to be used to stop small flows, like a styptic pencil
Anything in the instruction booklet?