Thanks Jace, that's good to know about the spray.

By the way, I meant to say the Neosporin I use is "maximum strength + pain relief."

Nurit

Perhaps to remove the dead tissue from a wound ?

Just a thought, it may not apply, when I was a kid we mostly played on dirt fields not grass, and I coached one year: makings for an inflatable leg splint. Three times growing up we had broken legs or ankles, and a couple close calls, it would have been great to splint them up before taking them to the hospital. If yours is the kind of league that calls 911 for such injuries (and has great response times) it may not be necessary. Ask the coach how often this has come up in recent memory in the league. An inflatable pad plus 4-5 cravats would do the trick.

We play on a well maintained grass field - technically owned by NYC, but leased (I believe leased) by the club - the club waters, mows, seeds, etc, so the fields are VERY nice (there is enough room for 4 full sized fields, or more if you have fields for the U6,7,8,etc (the typical 6 man and 8 man fields)

Besides that, NYC EMS response time is prety darned good. All firetrucks have at least one EMT on board, so typical response time would probably be on the order of 5-7 minutes - in tis day of cell phones, the fire truck would probably be getting to the field about the time we got to the front gate to get the first aid kit

I once bought some of these Swab Plus - bascially a Q-tip with liquid in the hollow stick. You snap the neck, and the liquid saturates the cotton swab. I remember the one I had had an antiseptic plus a topical pain reliever - like a really light dose of lidocaine? Something similar to that. The kids didn't mind getting dabbed with it vs. the drama over pouring a little hydrogen peroxide over a cut.

Not sure that these would be practical for a big road rash - you'd probably go through half a box. Also, I'm not seeing one with a pain reliever on their Web site here. The packaging is different than when I'd bought them - perhaps they don't offer it, or I'm just not seeing it listed.
SwabPlus

Dave

One of the issues here may be that neos[porin/triple antibiotic seems less favored in ER usage and therefore less studied than is bacitracin
anecdotally related to a better allergy profile.

I normally flush my booboos with a liberal application of Bactine Spray(it's liquid enough to flush, has lidocain, and is an antibiotic) and then dress with a bandage with a dab of bacitracin or neosporin.

Vaseline dressings work very well on road-rashes and abrasions. It smoothens the skin, relieves the pain and prevents a gauze pad from sticking to the wound.

You'd definantly want to add a box of vaseline dressings for your soccer FAK.

Vaseline dressings also make great hand warmers and fire starters

Probably a few reasons:
-1 drug versus 3, so less chance for allergic reaction
-works fairly well (you'll notice bacitracin is the main drug in neosporin too)
-CHEAPER, probably