The place that keeps on giving!

For the "This is Public Health Blog" our group decided to post our sticker at the local Walgreens pharmacy. More specifically in the flu and common cold medication aisle. Over the last several years, Public Health officials have been making strives in preventative medications and vitamins as well as with ads that praise washing your hands and insuring you get your flu shot before you get the flu.

 When it comes to preventing the common cold, and more specifically influenza, the field of Public Health has always been involved in assuring citizens that they are there to help and to be resourceful. With this, Walgreens, or any pharmacies for that matter, have always bee great resources for people to find all that they might need in preventing illness, and/or getting what they do need once they have already come down with something.

While wandering around the store, trying to figure out where the best place to place our sticker might be, seeing as how Walgreens is full of Public health opportunities, the group came across a woman who looked a little under the weather,; in fact, she happened to be getting some mucus and cough medicine. After we talked about it, we all agreed that if the woman getting these medications had only maybe come there a few weeks earlier for some hand soap or vitamins, or maybe even some hand sanitizer, that maybe she would have been able to prevent from going there to, in turn, get suppressants to mask how she was feeling, sick!

All in all, the Walgreens pharmacy has always been a resourceful place for people to not only get there medications and vitamins, but also a great place to talk to pharmacist in order to see what preventative measures they might be able to take in order to not get sick at all. 

Group members: Elizabeth Sigler, Ericka Gutierrez, and Olivia Leal --