Health

What Is Hay Fever? Causes, Symptoms & Remedies

Hay fever, also known as allergic rhinitis, is an allergic reaction triggered by pollen when it comes into contact with your mouth, nose, eyes, and throat. Pollen, a fine powder from plants, is the primary culprit, although other allergens like dust mites, animal hairs, and fungi spores can cause similar symptoms. These allergens can provoke hay fever symptoms throughout the year, not just during high pollen counts. However, the preventive measures to avoid allergens would vary.

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Proceive | Tailored Nutrition For Conception & Pregnancy

It’s not one size fits all when it comes to nutrition for conception and pregnancy, so your vitamins shouldn’t be either. We’ve taken the science and developed products that are tailored to each life stage with ingredients at optimal levels depending on where you’re at in your journey. Developed by fertility and nutritional experts, you can trust you have made the best choice for you and your growing family.

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Saline Plus | Breathe Easy with Salt Therapy

As the temperature drops and winter approaches, it's essential to pay extra attention to your health and well-being. The cold weather can pose unique challenges to our bodies and immune systems, making it crucial to adopt a proactive approach to staying healthy. In this blog, we will explore various strategies and tips to help you stay in top shape during the cold season..

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Navigating the Chilly Season: Your Comprehensive Guide to Staying Healthy During Cold Weather

As the temperature drops and winter approaches, it's essential to pay extra attention to your health and well-being. The cold weather can pose unique challenges to our bodies and immune systems, making it crucial to adopt a proactive approach to staying healthy. In this blog, we will explore various strategies and tips to help you stay in top shape during the cold season..

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Navigating the Winter Season | A Pharmacists’ Guide to Cold and Flu Defence!

Winter is certainly upon us now, as we feel those colder temperatures, darker mornings and shorter evenings, we may also start to notice the return of cold and flu season. As a Pharmacist, I am often asked “How can I prepare for this cold and flu season?”, and I’m sharing my top tips below, and I’ll link some of my favourite products I’ll be stocking up on this winter too!

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Unlocking Intimacy | The Role of Sildenafil in Treating Erectile Dysfunction

Intimacy plays a crucial role in human relationships, fostering emotional bonds and bringing couples closer together. However, when erectile dysfunction (ED) enters the picture, it can create a barrier to the physical aspect of intimacy.

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Understanding ORS | The Lifesaver for Dehydration

Dehydration is a common health issue that many of us have experienced at some point in our lives. Whether it's due to hot weather, intense physical activity, illness, or simply not drinking enough water, dehydration can be dangerous if left untreated.

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Viagra Connect | Available without prescription

Get help finding a way forward with Viagra Connect – a genuine and effective treatment for erectile dysfunction

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Allergies | Stop Allergy Symptoms in Their Tracks!

The symptoms of Allergies can be annoying and uncomfortable, but there are steps you can take to reduce your exposure to allergens and minimize the impact of hay fever on your daily life

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Psoriasis | The Facts - Information on Psoriasis

Get expert information about Psoriasis

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Fertility Treatment: Your Guide

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Vitamin D | The Sunshine Vitamin

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that is made in the skin in response to the sun and can also be found in some foods such as eggs, oily fish and fortified cereals.

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Hay Fever | Causes Symptoms and Treatments

Hay fever (allergic rhinitis) is caused by an allergen such as pollen or spores entering the body and causing an allergic reaction. People can suffer hay fever one year and not the next and the severity of symptoms can vary. In summer and spring pollen is released from trees, plants and grasses causing seasonal rhinitis.

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How to Help Boost Your Immune System

Now more than ever it is important to look after your health as we are feeling the effects of living through a global pandemic. Our immune system detects pathogens such as viruses and bacteria and reacts in a number of ways to remove the threat from our bodies. It also creates ‘memory T-cells' which remember the threat helping the body to respond quicker the next time you encounter it. Supporting our immune systems can be beneficial in improving our ability to fight diseases including colds and flus

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Cold vs Flu: Which Have You Got?

We’ve all had a common cold: from that first little sniffle to the third box of tissues you’ve opened., they’re usually more of a hindrance than a medical danger. But what if you’re feeling really awful – could it be the flu? 

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How To Treat A Cold

So, you’ve caught a cold. Your head is stuffy, your nose is running fast enough to win an Olympic gold medal and you feel rotten all over. What can you do about it?

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Men's Health: Viagra Connect & Erectile Dysfunction

For some men with ED it’s difficult to get or keep an erection every time they try to have sex. For others, ED can happen every once in a while

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How To Quit Smoking (For Good!)

As many people are starting to make new year’s resolutions, stopping smoking is one that comes up regularly! Smoking is the leading cause of avoidable death in Ireland with 6000 deaths a year from the effects of smoking. Every cigarette takes 5 and a half minutes off your life so the sooner you quit the better!

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Osteoporosis Treatment: Your Guide

Bone is a living tissue constantly being broken down and replaced. Bone cells called osteoclasts work to break down the old, worn out bone, which is then replaced with strong, new bone by osteoblasts.

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The Flu Vaccine: All You Need To Know

The flu vaccination is a seasonal vaccination best given in September/October as the vaccine can take two weeks to give full protection. The vaccine helps your body to produce antibodies that will help you fight the flu virus. If you do contract the flu, symptoms are likely to be much weaker and shorter lasting than if you didn't get vaccinated.

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