Important Information

please read BEFORE using the Home Doctor.

What is the Home Doctor?

The Home Doctor let's you choose a medicine, available from your local pharmacist, to treat an illness or condition that you may have.

When to use the Home Doctor

When you are unwell with a minor ailment the local chemist is often the first place you go to for advice and medicine.

Maybe you would like to select a medicine in the comfort of your own home, make a note of it or print out the information and then go and discuss it with the pharmacist.

Alternatively, you may want to review all the appropriate medicines before you go to the chemist.

You may have previously chosen a medicine that isn't working for you and you want to see what else is available.

You may just want to know more about your present medicine.

The Home Doctor lets you do this.

You simply enter your symptoms, (or choose from a list) and The Home Doctor displays a list of possible medicines for you to consider.

Make a note of these - you could print them out.

Then go along and discuss the ones that you choose with the pharmacist.

The Home Doctor does not feature prescription medicines.

It does feature products that you can buy off the shelf and some products the sale of which must be supervised by the pharmacist.

To reach information about a medicine

If you just want to look up a medicine without going through a list of symptoms then you can do that too.

The manufacturers of some products have provided more information. We are continually adding products and information as it comes in. If you don't see what you want this time - keep looking.

And get well soon!

Remember

• Keep all medicines out of reach of children.

• Follow the advice on the patient leaflet and the packet.

• The Home Doctor is designed for use in the United Kingdom only.

• The Home Doctor does not replace the pharmacist.

• It does allow you to discuss your treatment with more knowledge than you might otherwise have.

• It also shows you medicines that the pharmacist may not have in stock. Ask the pharmacist to order them for you.

• You should always discuss your condition and your treatment with the pharmacist. This is most important.

• Do not take more than one medicine unless you have checked with a pharmacist or a doctor.

• Tell the pharmacist about all medicines that you are on including ones from the doctor.

• Tell the pharmacist about any illness you may have no matter how unimportant it may seem.

• The Home Doctor contains public information about 'OTC' (medicines available off the shelf) and 'P' (medicines available only under the supervision of a pharmacist). It also contains information from manufacturers.

• The Home Doctor must only be used in conjunction with advice from pharmacists and/or doctors.

• The Home Doctor does not make recommendations. It is designed only to give you more knowledge when discussing your condition and its treatment with the relevant professionally qualified person.

• The publishers take no responsibility for the data given or any misuse of this data.

Use of this site is subject to these Terms and Conditions.

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