Health
Winter doesn’t just bring chilly winds, frosty mornings and cold nights it also brings a host of stuffy noses, coughs and colds, dry skin and other troublesome winter ailments.
Stuffy Sinuses
Adults get an average of two to five colds a year1 and with everyone congregating indoors together, winter is a prime time for the cold virus to spread. If you are suffering from a blocked, stuffy nose Otrivine® provides a range of nasal drops and sprays and tablets that are convenient, easy to use, and provide relief at times when you may need it most. Otrivine® Adult Nasal Drops are available in a convenient 10ml size bottle and can help to open and clear the nasal passages within minutes, with the effects lasting for up to ten hours. For children consider Otrivine® Child Nasal Drops which are specially formulated for children aged two to twelve years old*.
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Coughing Kids
Children will suffer on average from up to seven to ten colds each year, twice as many as the average adult1. Help keep dreaded snuffles under wraps with Tixylix ® - the UK’s favourite2 range of cough and cold medicines for children. Tixylix® offers effective solutions for many common cold symptoms, from dry or chesty coughs to runny noses. For babies aged three months and over consider trying Tixylix® Baby Syrup (contains glycerol) as it gently and effectively helps to soothe and relieve tickly coughs, or the Tixylix® Vapour Fan, which provides soothing menthol and eucalyptus vapours to help little ones breathe more easily. For children aged two to ten years old* there is a range of four syrups: Tixylix® Cough and Cold to help ease coughs, clear congestion and relieve runny noses and to relieve troublesome coughs there is Tixylix® Chesty Cough (contains guaifenesin) which is designed to loosen and relieve chesty coughs and catarrh and Tixylix® Dry Cough (contains pholcodine) to help calm an irritating dry cough and is ideal for daytime use because it doesn’t cause drowsiness. If your little one is having trouble sleeping because of an irritating night-time cough, try Tixylix® Night Cough, which can help to soothe the cough and aid restful sleep.
Always read the label.
*Consult a pharmacist or healthcare professional before use in children
under 6 years.
Winter Skin
The harsher weather conditions during winter can have a drying effect on the skin, which may affect eczema sufferers. As an essential medicine cabinet item, try Eurax cream or lotion, this helps to soothe the itching and irritation of eczema, as well as 10 other different skin ailments, including itchy dermatitis and allergic rashes.
Contains crotamiton.
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Luscious Lips
With a host of germs flying around during the winter months many people may find themselves catching a bug or virus, which can lower the body’s immune system. For cold sore sufferer’s this may lead to an outbreak of the herpes virus3, so to help speed up cold sore recovery, try using Lypsyl® Aciclovir 5% Cold Sore Cream* when the tingling or blistering of a cold sore occurs. Alternatively consider the triple action formula of Lypsyl® Cold Sore Gel*, which provides symptomatic relief of cold sores. It contains an anaesthetic to relieve pain, an antiseptic to help prevent bacterial infection and an astringent to help dry up cold sores. Using Lypsyl® lip balm every day can help protect your lips from the winter weather’s damaging effects and can help repair and maintain soft, smooth lips. For something a little fruity, try strawberry, peach or cherry flavours, or if you prefer a fresh feeling choose the mint flavour. Lypsyl® Cold Sore Cream contains aciclovir.
*Always read the label.
Ski Strains
Whether it’s muscle aches from a day on the slopes, sprains from the skating rink or just general aches and pains - Voltarol® helps to relieve rheumatic pain, joint and muscular sprains, strains and bruises helping to keep you active and moving or get you back out on the slopes. Voltarol Pain-eze Emulgel® is a formulation which has a double action that works to help treat the pain and also reduce swelling and inflammation. Also available for the first time over the counter are new Voltarol Pain-eze® Tablets following the recent switch of oral diclofenac from a prescription only medicine to an over the counter medicine. They have a triple action that helps relieve pain, reduce inflammation and fever. Voltarol Pain-eze® Tablets contain diclofenac potassium. Voltarol Pain-eze Emulgel® contains diclofenac diethylammonium.
Always read the label.