Pharmacy Care provides information about self-care, that is how to treat minor medical conditions with products available at the pharmacy. Find out how your pharmacist can help you to manage minor conditions yourself.
Introduction
Common Conditions
- Acne
- Asthma
- Baby feeding
- Bites and stings
- Blood glucose testing
- Chesty coughs
- Chickenpox
- Colds
- Cold sores
- Conjunctivitis
- Constipation
- Contact lenses
- Contraception: barrier methods
- Cuts and Abrasions
- Cystitis
- Dandruff
- Dermatitis/eczema
- Diarrhoea
- Dry coughs
- Dry eyes and irritation
- Dry skin
- Ear problems
- Emergency contraception options
- Eyelid and eyelash problems
- Fever
- Foot care
- Fungal skin infections
- Haemorrhoids
- Heart health
- Hairloss
- Hayfever
- Headaches
- Headlice
- Indigestion and heartburn
- Influenza
- Iron-deficiency anaemia
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Measles
- Migraine
- Mumps
- Muscle aches and pains
- Nappy rash self-care
- Oral healthcare
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Pain in children
- Period pain
- Poisonings
- Pregnancy testing options
- Psoriasis
- Rubella
- Scabies
- Shingles
- Sinus and nasal problems
- Sleep problems and snoring
- Smoking cessation
- Sore throat
- Spider veins, bruises and scars
- Strains and sprains
- Sun care options
- Toothache
- Travel sickness
- Urinary incontinence
- Urticaria
- Vaginal thrush
- Varicose veins and support stockings
- Vitamins and nutritional supplements
- Warts
- Weightloss
- Whooping cough
- Worms: threadworms
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Common Conditions
There are many common conditions that can affect your health. When these problems are new to you or you are worried about your health, going to your doctor is generally the right thing to do. This is particularly true if you have other health problems or the person who is unwell is a child or an elderly person.
At other times, you might have a good idea of what the problem is and you might decide to go straight to the local pharmacy for advice and to see whether there is a treatment available directly from the pharmacy.
Finding your way around common condition topics
Common Conditions topics are listed on the menu to the left
They provide brief descriptions of many of the health problems that people turn to their pharmacist for help with. The information is only a general summary and the pharmacist will be able to give you more personalised advice for your particular siutation. Each topic has been organised to make it easy to get the information you need.
- General information
- See your Pharmacist or Medical Professional
- Treatment tips
- Treatment options
- More information
The Common Conditions topics also include examples of the most frequently used medicines and products available from a pharmacy, for these conditions - but, by no means, are all medicines and products listed. Where the products have particular active ingredients these are also listed to give you an idea of which products contain what.
The Common Conditions topics do not usually include information on treatments available only on a doctor's prescription - in some cases prescription medicines might be a better option for you, but your pharmacist can advise you when you would be better to see your doctor.
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