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Safety Tips for Back to school season during Covid-19 📚🏫

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, families & caregivers might worry about their children getting Covid-19 virus at school.
Unfortunately, outbreaks do happen in school settings.

But here are some ways to stay safe!
• encourage vaccination
• wear face mask
• screen testing
• proper ventilation
• hand washing often
• staying home when sick
• cleaning and disinfecting
• contact tracing

If your child tests positive for Covid-19:
- keep your child home from school
- focus on relieving your child’s symptoms (rest, plenty of fluids, pain relievers)
- contact the school
- watch for emergency signs (trouble breathing, persistent pain or pressure in chest, confusion, inability to stay awake)

Stay safe everyone !💉😷

Don’t have time to pick up your prescriptions??
Well we have free city wide delivery all day!

Contact us for more details :)🚚

It's finally sunny out, and that means we will be exposed to the sun more! ☀

Sunburn's are red, painful skin that feels hot to the touch. It usually appears within a few hours after too much exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light from sunshine or artificial sources, such as sunlamps. Home remedies can usually provide sunburn relief, but sunburn may take days to fade.

Intense, repeated UV light exposure that results in sunburn increases the risk of other skin damage, such as dark spots, rough spots, and dry or wrinkled skin. It also raises the risk of skin cancers such as melanoma.

You can prevent sunburn and related conditions by protecting your skin. This is especially important when you're outdoors, even on cool or cloudy days...

Some easy preventions are:
- Avoid sun exposure between 10am-4pm
- Avoid sun tanning and tanning beds
- Use sunscreen frequently & generously
- Wear sunglasses when outdoors
- Be aware of sun-sensitizing medications.

Stay Safe & Enjoy the Weather! ☀☀☀

Manitoba opens 4th Covid-19 vaccine dose to anyone 50+, and they shorten the intervals between shots.

Indigenous people, which includes, First Nations, Inuit, & Metis who are at least 30, are also eligible for their 4th dose.

People who are moderately to severely immunocompromised and residents of personal care homes are also eligible.

They lowered the interval between booster doses to four months. When it was previously six months.

Eligibility may be further expanded in fall.😁

Safe Medication Storage : 💊

• Know that heat, air, light, and moisture may damage your medicine.

• Store your medicines in a cool, dry place. For example, store it in your dresser drawer or a kitchen cabinet away from the stove, sink, and any hot appliances. You can also store medicine in a storage box, on a shelf, in a closet.

• If you are like most people, you probably store your medicine in a bathroom cabinet. But the heat and moisture from your shower, bath, and sink may damage your medicine. Your medicines can become less potent, or they may go bad before the expiration date.

• Pills and capsules are easily damaged by heat and moisture.

•Always keep medicine in its original container.

And most definitely, Keep children safe. 🚸

• Always store your medicine out of reach and out of sight of children.
• Store your medicine in a cabinet with a child latch or lock.

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-Go through your medicine cabinet at least once a year.
-Gather up your medicine that is old, no longer in the original container, has unclear labels and has changed in colour, smell or taste.
-Safely dispose of medications through your local pharmacy.

Maintaining Good Health 🏥:

In order to maintain good health, it’s important to pay attention to your signs and symptoms.

The choices you make everyday go a long way towards promoting adult health.

Here are some signs that may need medical attention:
• unexplained weight loss
• changes in bowel habits
• shortness of breath
• sudden headaches

And ofcourse, regular physical exams and health screening tests. Early detection can be the key to a successful treatment and a healthy lifestyle!

Stay Healthy!

It’s allergy season!!

Here are some things that you can do to reduce your exposure to the things that trigger your allergy signs and symptoms: 🤧

• Stay indoors on dry & windy days
• Delegate lawn mowing, w**d pulling and other garden chores that stir up allergens
• Remove clothes you’ve worn outside and shower to rinse the pollen from your skin & hair
• Use the air conditioning in your house and car
• Clean the floors often as dust and pollen can build up easily

Several types of non-prescription medications can help ease allergy symptoms :💊

• Oral antihistamines
• Decongestants
• Nasal Spray

4th doses are now available for the following!:

• All residents of personal care homes and assisted living facilities with no age limit
• Individuals ages 70 or older who live in the community
• First nations, Inuit and Métis people aged 50 or older regardless of where they live

For more information visit:
https://manitoba.ca/covid-19

Lorimer Pharmacy is pleased to offer Rapid COVID Antigen Test for our patients. Call (204) 219-8461