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Can clorox be useful in a first aid kit?

For example, if you get a minor cut on a camping trip, and it becomes infected, can clorox be used as first aid in the wilderness, to keep it from getting worse till you can get medical attention? If so, what are the side effects? Would it be painful? What other first aid products would do a better job with less side effects?

Public Comments

1. DO NOT PUT CLOROX ONTO OPEN SKIN OR EVEN INTACT SKIN!!! It is a poison and has NO place in a first aid kit, not ever.

2. You don't want bleach in your first aid kit because it can cause a lot of damage. It would burn like heck, and do other harmful muscle and tissue damage. Instead, you can use stuff like a triple anitibiotic ointment, hydrogen peroxide, or bacteine (spelling?), or even good old soap and water. They are readily available at any store that has a pharmacy/first aid section.

3. Never use clorox. Alcohol prep pads are useful as well as antibiotic ointment, Betadyne, water, hot & cold packs that you must hit to make them useable, insect spray, peroxide, bandaids and gauze and bandage wrap, tape of different sizes, flashlight with extra batteries and keep them up to date, washcloth, soap or germ killer, sunscreen, and safety pins plus a piece of cloth in case of a broken arm so you can make a sling and of course scissors and a couple of small covered boards in case your wrist gets broken you can immobilize it with the boards and a pain killer like Tylenol. Because of being a paramedic along with my other jobs we have to carry a first aid kit at all times, we also have to carry a BP cuff and stethoscope but you don't have to do that. One more thing is a few packs of sugar in case someone has low blood sugar.