Travel Healthcare

I abandoned ship.

Advantages: Designed to combat travel and morning sickness
Disadvantages: Didn't work, look strange

When I was pregnant with my first child I suffered horrendous morning sickness, but not just in the mornings, it could be afternoon or evening, timing didn't matter. The sickness was always worse during travel and getting to work on the bus quickly became a nightmare, I could make it through half the journey but soon the nausea would approach and I'd have to get off the bus in order to cool down and get some air or to do the inevitable. There are ...
...or morning sickness and despite giving ginger biscuits a try they didn't seem to have any effect so I looked into other methods of dealing with the sickness and bought a set of Sea-bands. Sea-bands are knitted wrist bands that feature a plastic bead, this bead presses down on what's called the Nei Kuan acupressure point on your wrists, which is shown in medical studies to reduce the feelings of nausea, they are designed for use during travel or ...

piggypine 30.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Sea Band for Travel Sickness

No good.

Advantages: Little, tasteless
Disadvantages: Ermm.. doesn't actually work?

I don't know how much this would cost in the High Street, because I bought this from a ferry when my family was suffering from seasickness- bad for me, as I was the only one there completely fine! I bought it for £4.99. It has three sheets with 24 tablets on each of them, making it 72 tablets n total. Each tablet is just over £0.06, and whilst having to take 2 tablets every hour if on the journey, it isn't too good value. If before the journey, ...
...It didn't really help my sister much, as she was sick even after taken the tablets, but she was in a pretty bad condition beforehand. She carried on taking the medicine until the end of the ferry, and wasn't sick again although she still felt quite awful. Good things about the tablets: They don't need water to take as you only have to chew on them or suck. They don't taste like anything at all so you won't have to prevent yourself form spitting ...

carrrotts 21.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Nelsons Travella

Sticky fingers

Advantages: Cleansing, pleasant smell
Disadvantages: Sticky, can easily squeeze out too much

...I ended up with the Marks &Spencer Anti-Bacterial Hand Gel, which cost £1 and was helpfully sitting beside the tills in the food bit. The gel comes in a 50ml clear bottle, and is bright blue. The label has the usual info, don’t get it in your eyes, don’t eat it, and the ingredients – all chemically stuff as you would expect. The point of hand gel is to be able to wash your hands on the go without needing water. It’s become a lot more popular since ...
...effective it is. This particular gel claims to kill 99.99% of germs but the H1N1 virus could be in that 0.01%!!! I like hand gel because I find it refreshing, and also because I hate that the Metro paper covers my hands in nasty dirty newsprint in the morning – so by using this I don’t have to wait until I get to work to clean my hands. I found the Carex gel very effective in every way, although I didn’t like the fragrance of the Aloe Vera variety ...

eilidhcatriona 19.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Marks & Spencer Anti-Bacterial Hand Gel

Quick and Easy Clean Hands

Advantages: kills 99.9% of germs, small size
Disadvantages: Price and overpowering smell

...product: The product is a carex Anti-bacterial Hand gel with aloe vera. It claims to kill 99.9% of germs and is an alternative to soap and water. It also claims to have at least 100 applications per bottle, which is also instant drying-woohoo! It has been inrtoduced for a few years now and I purchased my first bottle around 3 or 4 years ago, but sales have soared recently with the outbreak of swine flu. It is made by carex who is a well known ...
...trusted product! The range: Carex offer a large range of hand disinfectants and cleaning products. These range from the pots of squirt soap, to hand gels, to the larger hand gels which you use to refill the smaller ones. They also sell items such as body soaks and shower gels. In the actual hand gel range they offer a few different ones including the sensitive (which is a clear liquid one), the aloe vera one (a green liquid one), the moisturising ...

2me_to_you2 09.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Carex Hand Gel Aloe Vera

Carex Hand Gel Sensitive

Advantages: Leaves hands germ free, smelling great and feeling good
Disadvantages: None

I brought a bottle of Carex Hand Gel last week on the recommendation of a friend. I purchased it from Boots but it is available to buy from stores such as Superdrug, Savers, Lloyds Chemists etc. Apart from when visiting hospitals, using hand gel is something which I have never really thought about in the past, but with all the negative press nowadays on virus's such as MRSA and Swine Flu being on the increase then I have now realised that little ...
...~The Product~ Carex Hand Gel comes in a handy 50ml clear plastic bottle, making it a perfect size to carry around in your handbag. It comes with a pump-action spray lid with a nozzle that is able to turn 360 degress. The gel itself is clear and quick thick. There are two things which really surprised me about this product. The first is the smell. It is the same type of product that is used in hospitals now, though obviously not as strong and harsh, ...

bexx0907 27.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Carex Hand Gel Sensitive