Plan ahead for a happy, healthy holiday

Your local pharmacy can be your first port of call for travel health advice

YOU’VE saved up for months, picked the perfect resort, booked your flights and have even been online to check out reviews of the local restaurants. -

- Most Boots Pharmacies offer a Malaria Prevention

Service* which can help to identify and provide antimalarials if required for your particular trip. You should also consider whether you may need any travel vaccinations before you go. The Boots Travel Vaccinations and Health Advice Service is available in 280 stores across the UK.** Each of the 280 stores has a specially-trained travel health pharmacist offering advice and information on vaccinations and antimalarial medicines tailored to you and your trip.

The first step is to go online and book an appointment. Or drop into the nearest store offering the Boots

Travel Vaccinations and Health Advice

Service.

Your pharmacist will ask a few simple questions about when and where you are travelling, and then check whether any vaccinations or anti-malarial medications are - - - recommended. If they are, the pharmacist will carry out a more detailed consultation, including doing a personalised risk assessment just for you. Boots Pharmacists will help you to prepare for your trip, and with weekend and evening appointments available, it is simple and convenient to fit into your routine – ideal if you can’t get time off work.

Visit www.boots.com/ travelhealth to find out more. Sometimes moles can change, and if they do it’s important to get them checked quickly.

The Mole Scanning Service*, operated by Screencancer, assisted by trained members of selected Boots Pharmacy teams, is available in 50 stores. It assesses moles and helps to identify any that are suspicious and need further investigation. Visit www.boots.com/ molescanning for more information. Travel insurance, including medical cover for when you are abroad, is one of the most important things on your holiday checklist.

However, if you are elderly, or have a medical condition, it can be very difficult, and can be prohibitively expensive, to get cover for a trip abroad. Boots offers affordable policies with no upper age limit and offers cover for medical conditions such as raised blood pressure, diabetes, cancer and heart conditions, as long as you declare them and they are accepted. Visit boots.com/ travelinsurance for details. Having your period when you are on holiday can be a real inconvenience, but Boots offers a Period Delay Online clinic* to help delay to help delay it until you get back.

It is available to women aged from 16 to 54, who are not taking the contraceptive pill or any other hormonal contraception**. The online clinic will be able to carry out an assessment to help decide if this service is appropriate for you and your needs.

For more information, simply visit www.boots. com/perioddelay.