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Common Winter Ailments

Advice from our Doctors on common winter problems




Simple steps to keep you Flu Free!
Lots of people mistake the common cold for flu. However, there is a huge difference between the two. Influenza is caused by a virus, like a cold, but makes you much more ill. It’s highly infectious and it can put you out of action for up to 2 weeks...


Unfortunately some people just have cold hands and feet. There is some evidence from a small study to show that certain races are more efficient at dealing with cold weather, in that heat is retained for longer in the hands once they are exposed to cold...


Cold Weather is often a trigger for chapped and dry lips. Once lips become dry we tend to lick them more frequently and this can often result in the problem worsening...


Drinking large amounts of Christmas alcohol, squeezing in that extra pudding and generally overindulging may mean stomach cramps, diarrhoea and vomiting (particularly from too much alcohol) or constipation, (often from too may highly refined sweet foods), while we are relaxing our digestive system is working twice as hard...

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