Travel Medicine: Packing Tips for a Safe & Healthy Trip
When travelling, it’s helpful to have certain medications on hand to help prevent or alleviate symptoms of common travel-related conditions. It can be difficult to know what to plan for, or whether you’re bringing too much or too little. A great place to start is by considering where you’re travelling, how long you’ll be away, and whether pharmacies and healthcare services will be readily available and accessible at your destination. As a traveller, Pharmacist, and Certified Travel Health Specialist, here are the things I consider when putting together a travel medicine kit.
Mineral vs Chemical Sunscreens: Key Differences and Choosing the Right One
Have you ever found yourself in front of the sunscreen display only to come down with a severe case of option exhaustion. What's the right SPF? Water-Resistant or Not? What the heck is broad-spectrum? What is mineral sunscreen and why is everyone telling me to use it? So, leaving your research for another day, you grab what's on sale, or the same old bottle you've been using since childhood.
There's been a lot of chitter chatter about sunscreen over the last few years, particularly around ingredients, efficacy, and what's considered safe for our bodies, the reefs and the planet. We often get asked about the difference between mineral and chemical based sunscreens so let us break it down for you.