be included as appropriate the post injection bleeding patch can also vary from a relatively simple gauze pad plus adhesive strips to a bandage to a patch specifically designed to contain blood from an injection site such as the injection pad described in u s pat no 5 728 071 and incorporated herein by reference or may be any other combination of components that allows the practitioner to cover the puncture site with an absorbent material and to hold that material at the puncture site optionally the medication to be injected into the patient may be included in the kit and may be supplied in a vial ampule bottle pre filled syringe or similar medication storage container for example some typical medications which could be supplied in the injection kit would be vaccines commonly used antibiotics or similar commonly medications as is known in the art in a preferred embodiment of the injection kit the absorbent pad is a post injection bleeding patch described in u s pat no 5 728 071 when using this patch the injection procedure varies slightly from that described above in that the practitioner opens the sealed kit cleans the injection site with one or more of the sterilizing agents applies the patch to the patient 39 s skin attaches the needle to the syringe fills the syringe from the medication vial injects the needle through the injection patch and through the patient 39 s skin and injects the medication withdraws the needle from the skin and the patch and discards the needle and syringe selection of the specially designed 39 071 injection patch as the absorbent pad is recommended because in recent years it has been.