Free App for emergency service pharmacies

Free app for pharmacy emergency service

25/12/2014

Anyone who gets sick during the holidays and urgently needs a drug has a problem: How to find the nearest emergency pharmacy. Recently, there is a pharmacy finder app, with the help of which you can quickly find the nearest pharmacy open. The app is free of charge and seeks easily the corresponding pharmacy among the Germany-wide about 20 000 pharmacies and the 1400 emergency pharmacies which are also open on public holidays.

„The accessibility of an emergency pharmacy can be particularly important at home, as well as on the road“, said the chairman of the EN-Apotheker Michael Mahl opposite the WAZ. Via the location or the address input, the user receives the contact information of the nearest pharmacy on his mobile phone. Even a route planner for the directions contains the app.

Medicine chest makes sense
Christmas presents, family meals and contemplation are usually the central ingredients of Christmas. „But just before the holidays, the citizens should check their medicine chest“, advises pharmacist Claudia Schneppel, spokeswoman for the pharmacy in the Ennepe-Ruhr district. This may include the purchase of numerous home remedies, such as nausea, feeling of fullness, heartburn, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, toothache or to stimulate digestion, all problems that occur in connection with extended meals at Christmas quickly and can spoil the holidays , But also against simple diseases such as cold or fever, the keeping of home remedies makes sense. „Driving on Christmas Eve for paracetamol or a simple nasal spray in the emergency pharmacy makes only very few patients joy“, knows Schneppel from many years of experience in the night and emergency service, „Therefore, it is advisable to set certain standards in the medicine cabinet.“

And Schneppel continues: „A family with small children needs medicines other than a single. For this purpose, you should have the medicine cabinet individually put together in the local pharmacy, but some medications such as a painkiller, something for allergies, fever or even a diarrhea are easy in every household - as well as a wound disinfectant and sterile dressing material.“

Schneppel emphasizes that a medicine chest should not be an accumulation of old, cracked medicines. „A medicine cabinet is only helpful in an emergency if it is well sorted and maintained. Medicines that have become unusable or that are no longer needed should be rejected on a regular basis.“ This is actually an expiration date: „Active ingredients can change and even become dangerous at the end of their shelf life“, so schnopps. (Jp)