Small Cuts & Burns
The first thing you should do to treat a simple cut or scrape to remove dirt.
What is wash it with soap and water?
Instead of squeezing a bee stinger, you should use the edge of a plastic card or pocketknife to do this.
What is scrape it away?
The direction you should lean your head when treating a nosebleed.
What is forward?
The universal silent sign that someone is choking.
What is clutching or grasping the throat?
The famous rhyming rule used to identify and avoid poison ivy and poison oak.
What is "Leaves of three, let them be"?
This should be applied to a scrape before covering it with a sterile bandage to prevent infection.
What is triple antibiotic ointment?
To properly remove this small arachnid, you should grasp it close to the skin with tweezers and pull straight out.
What is a tick?
The physical action you must take on the soft part of the nose to stop a nosebleed.
What is pinch it firmly?
If a choking victim can speak, cough loudly, or breathe, this is the only thing you should encourage them to do.
What is keep coughing?
This is the very first step you should take if your skin accidentally brushes against a poisonous plant.
What is washing the area immediately with soap and water? (Or rubbing alcohol)
You should never do this to a blister because it opens the skin up to infection.
What is pop or puncture it
The maximum amount of time you should wait before checking a tick bite for a dangerous "bullseye" rash signaling Lyme Disease.
What is a few weeks?
These are the early warning signs of frostbite on the skin.
What are numbness and grayish-white patches?
Before performing any physical first aid on a conscious choking victim, a Scout must always ask for this.
What is permission? (Asking "Are you choking? Can I help you?")
This is the very first step you should take if your skin accidentally brushes against a poisonous plant.
What is poison ivy?
This soft, adhesive fabric should be cut into a donut shape and placed around a hot spot or blister to protect it from friction.
What is moleskin?
When treating a venomous snakebite, you should keep the affected limb in this position relative to the heart.
What is at or below heart level?
Something you should never do to a frostbitten body part because it can tear the frozen skin tissue.
What is rub or massage it?
The physical lifesaving technique involving abdominal thrusts used to dislodge an object from a conscious person's airway.
What is the Heimlich Maneuver?
This is the invisible, sticky oil found on hazardous plants that triggers the allergic reaction and red, itchy rash.
What is urushioil?
The immediate first step for treating a minor, first-degree thermal burn.
What is hold it under cool, running water?
Two things you should never do when treating a venomous snakebite
What are cutting the wound, sucking out the venom, or applying ice/a tourniquet?
The safe method for rewarming a frostbitten area if there is no chance of it refreezing.
What is placing it in warm water (not hot) or using body heat (like placing hands under armpits)?
The alternative physical technique required if the choking victim is an infant or if abdominal thrusts are not possible.
What are back slaps and chest thrusts?
Unlike poison ivy or oak, this hazardous plant grows primarily in wet, swampy areas and features distinct clusters of 7 to 13 smooth-edged leaflets.
What is poison sumac?