We provide high-quality first aid and general medical treatment during your trip bookings with Nepal Spirit Adventure, including trekking, climbing, and tours in Nepal.
We arrange for first aid supplies through our trekking and climbing guides, ensuring that both our staff and valued guests are covered during the trips we organize in the Himalayas.
First aid refers to the initial medical care you may receive for an acute injury or illness. This can range from minor assistance, such as cleaning and bandaging small cuts and scrapes, to urgent actions needed to help someone experiencing a life-threatening medical emergency.
The objectives of first aid are to:
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Save lives
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Limit suffering
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Prevent or reduce the severity of further illness
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Improve the speed of recovery
First Aid is essential for everyone traveling in the remote mountain areas of Nepal. We advise you to keep in mind that, at high altitudes, even minor wounds can take a long time to heal. Therefore, prevention is better than a cure. On treks, maintaining good personal care and hygiene is crucial to avoid complications from simple injuries.
Nepal Spirit Adventure provides a general first aid kit suitable for various outdoor adventure activities, such as trekking, peak climbing, and hiking, as well as other activities in Nepal. Our staff always carries a basic first aid kit that includes water purification treatments. If you require a more comprehensive kit, most medications are readily available and inexpensive in Kathmandu, and you do not need a doctor's prescription.
Important Note: Do not bring sleeping pills, as they can act as respiratory depressants!
Acute Mountain Sickness Treatments:
- Diamox
- Dexamethasone
- Portable Altitude Chamber (hyperbaric bags are available for hire in Kathmandu)
Antiseptics (disinfectants):
- Dettol
- Iodine solution
- Burn cream (Silvazine, Burnol)
Pain Killers (analgesics):
- Paracetamol
- Aspirin – Ibuprofen
- Codeine phosphate
- Fentanyl
Antibiotics (for infections, especially of the stomach and chest):
- Amoxicillin
- Cephalexin
Ciprofloxacin (for typhoid and severe dysentery; please note that many stomach infections are developing resistance to this antibiotic. It may be worthwhile to
Consider Azithromycin or a similar backup:
- Cotrimoxazole
- Doxycycline
- Erythromycin
- Metronidazole
- Tinidazole
Eye and Ear Infections:
- Chloramphenicol
Fungal Infections:
- Miconazole
Nausea and Vomiting (antiemetic):
- Stemetil
Indigestion:
- Antacid Tablets
Constipation (laxatives):
- Durolax
Anti-Motility (for alleviating diarrhea symptoms):
- Imodium
- Lomotil
Respiratory Medication:
- Sinutab
- Lemotab
- Asthma spray
Anti-Allergy and Anti-Inflammatory:
- Hydrocortisone cream
- Calamine
- Polaramine
- Dental Clove oil
Skin blister repair kit:
- 1 set of earplugs; (tea trekking lodges have thin walls, so snoring can keep you awake)
Instruments:
- Thermometer
- Tweezers
- Scissors
- Suture kit
Dressing and wound care:
- Band-aids
- Cotton buds
- Triangular bandages
- Cotton roll
- Square gauze
- Sterile gauze,
- Adhesive tape bandages, elastic bandages, etc
We supply a first aid kit for our adventure trekkers/travellers, but you can also bring your first aid medicine box by yourself, which will be very helpful along the trip to Everest base camp.