what's the best band aid?

what is the best type of band aid? Is it the fabric, waterproof, nylon, clear version, breathable etc.. There are so many fancy model out there. It's like different typs of import brands names. I am confused. what do you think of good one to add to survival kit ? <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Buy diff brands/models and use them on your fingers and see which ones last the longest.

I can't give any specifics (forgot) but I know some i`ve had seem to NEVER come off until they are breaking down. Waterproof are normaly winners but there has been a lot of new bandages over the last couple years thats why I Suggest trying them <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
(You may be allergic to some even! I know people who are allergic to some bandaids and not others)

Don't forget liquid band aids. I have three grandkids and swear by the stuff.

Check this out, I think it makes a lot of sense:

http://www.equipped.org/medical.htm#AdhesiveBandages

In Canada I buy Elastoplast by Beiersdorf

Frankie

Duct tape fixes cheap bandaids. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

On a bit more serious note, I have had better luck with the Band-Aid brand. The Curad packaging seems to fall apart too easily.

Depends on where the wound is, how big it is, and whether it needs to be waterproof.

The ones I use the most are the 3/4 inch flexible fabric strips (pretty much any brand), and the smallest of the 3M "nexcare" waterproof bandages (the clear plastic ones). I keep a couple of each in my wallet.

Also don't forget adhesive oval eye patch/band aid. You will also need a supply of oval gauze pads to cover the eye before the eye patch. And some sterile lubricant eye drops. Sorry, got a little off subject here but the patch would be welcome in case of eye injury. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I once had to get steel removed from my eye and the numbing drops are a MUST for any FAK... I just need to find out what they are and if the public can get them :-/ I couldn't feel anything but could see them digging it out :-X

Good idea Todd. I have always heard that there are no nerves in your eyeball thus no pain. No one has explained to me why it hurts like hell sometime if you injure it or get a foreign object in it. Any optometrist should be able to tell you what they drop in your eye when they do that pressure test for glaucoma. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I keep a small but powerful magnet in my kit for removing superficial bits of magnetic particles which you may get in your eye. Of course, this wouldn't be recommended for imbedded metal. It is surprising how much metallic stuff is out there. Take a magnet and scratch around in a gravel driveway and you will be amazed at how much stuff attaches to it.

Anyone with an optometrist friend, ask him, or her, what they use to deaden the eyeball. Get the name and find out if it is prescription. Also what precautions, if any, should be used when dropping it into the eye. <img src="/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

Wal-Mart is actually selling some duct tape band-aids. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Most of the kendall cloth type i like the best-the adhexive seems to hold longer and the cloth flexability is a must

One note-the numbing eye drops are not a good idea- any time you have a foreign body the first thing is to make sure its fully removed, second those drops that anesthestize the eye are for examination only-any time the eye is numb you lose your ability to sense foreign objects-it could also cause you to rub your eye and do more corneal abrasion than you realized due to it being numb.
------just something to think about!

I had the same experience from doing some torching on a cars exhaust without (young and foolish then) safety glasses. Needless to say, I don't do that anymore. Course as blind as I am, I always have my safety glasses on now. I'm not sure (drops) what they used, kinda scared me. Felt like my eye would've fallen out if I tilted my head forward?

Fig, speaking from intimate personal experience -- those drops you speak of don't make it go away. In the domain of organic thing, like thorns, they do not generally get fully imbedded, so the biggest irritant is the protruding part scratcheing againt the inside of your eyelid.