Travel health kit checklist

Basic first aid items:

• Adhesive bandages
• Adhesive tape
• Alcohol-based hand sanitizer
• Antiseptic wound cleanser
• Blister pads or moleskin
• Disposable latex or vinyl gloves
• Gauze
• Packets of oral rehydration salts
• Safety pins and scissors
• Tensor bandages
• Thermometer
• Tweezers

Other items:

• Sunscreen
• Insect repellent (containing DEET or Icaridin)
• Aloe gel
• Condoms
• Ear plugs
• Extra pair of glasses or contacts (or copy of prescription)
• Mosquito net
• Saline eye drops
• Water purification filter or tablets

Medications:

• If recommended, destination-specific medication
• Any prescription or over-the-counter drugs normally used at home
• 1% hydrocortisone cream
• Allergy medication
• Antacids
• Antibacterial and antifungal spray/cream
• Anti-diarrheal medication
• Anti-motion sickness medication
• Cold and flu medication
• Laxatives
• Pain and fever medication
• Syringes or needles for medical use (if needed)

Contact card:

• Name, address and phone number of a family member or friend in Canada
• Name and phone number of your health care provider in Canada
• Address and phone number of your accommodations at your destination(s)
• Address and phone number of hospitals or clinics at your destination(s)
• Address and phone number of the Canadian Embassy, Consulate or High Commission office in your destination country/countries (and Emergency Contact Card)
• Emergency contact phone number from your travel health insurance provider

• Proof of your insurance coverage

• Copy of your immunization record

• International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, if required