Originally Posted By: DaveT
(snip) I broke open all of the single-use eye wash vials, and we covered the boy's eyes with a camp towel so the liquid wouldn't get in his eyes, and I tried to use them to irrigate the wound. So, lesson No. 1 – these things only put out about 6-8 drops of liquid, and there's nothing like a squirt of pressure to irrigate with. Basically, I was dripping liquid into the wound, with no real way to wash anything out. We talked about what else we could use to irrigate the wound, (snip)


if you have a clean sandwich or ziplock type plastic bag, reasonably clean water, some iodine or betadine swabs, and a needle, you can pressure-irrigate a wound. Put the water and a couple of iodine swabs in the water, let sit about 10 minutes, put a pin prick in the bag, and squeeze.

Jeff