Our pharmacists have been working and studying hard to be able to provide as much care to our members as possible, and now that we have multiple pharmacists able to vaccinate we thought now would be a good time to talk about the immunisations that we can provide.
For a small administration fee plus the cost of the medicine it has never been easier to safeguard your family against these preventable diseases.
Whooping Cough
Whooping cough is a highly contagious disease.
Symptoms that include fever and long periods of coughing that sound like a ‘whoop’.
Whooping cough can affect people of all ages, but it is more serious for babies. Babies have the highest risk of serious disease. They are more likely to need to go to hospital or die from whooping cough. About one in every 200 babies under 6 months old who get whooping cough dies from pneumonia or brain damage.
Whooping cough can be prevented by immunisation.
Measles, Mumps & Rubella
Immunisation is the best protection against measles, mumps & rubella.
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine helps protect you against the following diseases:
Measles – causes a cough, high fever, rash, ear infection, conjunctivitis and swelling of the brain
Mumps – causes fever, headache, tiredness, and swelling of the salivary glands, ovaries or testicles
Rubella (German measles) – causes a rash and swollen glands, but infection in pregnancy can result in the baby being born with severe disabilities.