{"id":63450,"date":"2026-02-14T23:19:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=63450"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:37:12","slug":"a-critical-piece-by-piece-analysis-of-a-first-aid-kit-sold-by-temu-as-an-ifak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/14\/a-critical-piece-by-piece-analysis-of-a-first-aid-kit-sold-by-temu-as-an-ifak\/","title":{"rendered":"A critical, piece-by-piece analysis of a first aid kit sold by Temu as an IFAK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, thanks to the Internet, it is possible to buy all kinds of military-style equipment without leaving home.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/12\/21\/two-reviews-of-mountain-first-aid-kits-and-some-first-aid-guidelines\/\">Two reviews of mountain first aid kits and some first aid guidelines<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/10\/13\/a-survival-kit-inspired-by-the-german-kochgeschirr-m31-cooking-pot-from-ww2\/\">A survival kit inspired by the German Kochgeschirr M31 cooking pot from WW2<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes that equipment isn't what it seems<\/strong>, and this is especially important when we're talking about first aid kits. <strong>There's a type of kit known in the Armed Forces as an IFAK, which stands for Individual First Aid Kit.<\/strong> These kits include all sorts of resources to help a soldier survive if injured until they receive more comprehensive medical assistance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55095814491_01028f520f_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55095814491_9823f93935_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> (my favorite channel, which I highly recommend you subscribe to) <strong>published a video critically analyzing a first aid kit sold by the Chinese website Temu as an IFAK<\/strong>, but which doesn't meet the requirements to be considered as such. <strong>The video's creator points out what's missing and what's superfluous in this kit<\/strong> (the video is in Spanish; you can activate automatic English subtitles in the player's bottom bar):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"El Botiqui\u0301n IFAK\u2026 \u201cno IFAK\u201d de TEMU\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QZHW2SOFlVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, thanks to the Internet, it is possible to buy all kinds of military-style equipment without leaving home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,25242],"tags":[26264],"class_list":["post-63450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-survival","tag-temu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}