For me, the 'real world' is inland fla****er kayaking. I find that
commercial compact first aid kits are a pile of w*nd*ws.

I tend to add an Ammonia insect bite relief stick straight away. The
youngest kids can get really upset and despondent about bites and stings,
and it helps to be able to offer some relief, especially when teenagers are
quick to point out 'The Blandford fly didn't sting you as such, it puked on
your skin and then shredded it to bits'.

Also 'larger than plasters' flexible wound dressings like Melolin are
strangely missing from many compact kits. These kits take you right back to
the times of the Dardanelles campaign (not personally mind) when some cotton
stuff was plonked straight on the wound and formed some caked-on bond with
the healing wound that had to be yanked off later.

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What do you carry in your kit?
Mine has evolved over the years.
My emergency kit ( Marked "OS KIT" ) short and official looking
actually abreviates to " OH SH!T KIT ".
Mine includes, flares, flash lights, compass, matches and fire starter,
some emergenct ( yucky ) food. string glue duct tape, a marine VHF, a
cell when in an area where cell works.
My first aid kit includes a CPR mask and an Epipen. My sone has a
serious alergy so the epipen and Benidryl has evolved into an important
part of my first aid pack. A great many people now have weird alergies.
Band aids and asprin are there too along with the normal first aid
stuff.
Where I live a surprise overnighter is always a risk.
If this is seams over the top, it likely is. It adds 20 lbs or so to
the boat.
What do you carry.