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Do you have an allergy?

If your not sure you have allergies or not, here are two points to remember.
1) If one of your parents had allergies 30-50% you are likely to have allergies.
2) If both of your parents had allergies, your chances are increased to 60-80% of having an allergy.

Also, your allergy may be completely different then what  your parents had. Ask our pharmacist about some of the standard allergy relief medication found on our shelves.

What vitamins should I be taking?

There are many vitamins available. Ask us about the quality of our viatmins and why we carry certain brands.

Vitamin D still in the News!

Vitamin D is naturally produced by the skin in response to sunlight. In wintertime in countries like Scotland, the relative lack of sunlight means the skin produces virtually none of the vitamin.

"Some of the things we already know about heart disease is that it is more common in northern latitudes, and that deaths from heart disease are more prevalent in winter than summer," said Professor Struthers.The lack of winter sunlight for Scots - and other northern European nationalities - could be a factor in the country’s high rates of heart disease, new research at the University of Dundee has found.

A research team led by Professor Allan Struthers, head of the Division of Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Dundee Medical School, found that a dose of vitamin D in wintertime improved blood vessel function, which should in turn decrease the incidence of new heart attacks

The findings will be presented to delegates at the British Cardiovascular Society annual scientific conference in Glasgow (Thursday June 7th).

"There may be lots of reasons for this, but one thing which our research suggests could be important is that vitamin D deficiency is very common over the winter season in Scotland."

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