N95 Respirator Mask: What You Need to Know What are N95 Masks? An N95 respirator mask is a piece of protective equipment designed to protect you from all kinds of airborne diseases and hazards including bacteria, viruses like COVID-19, lead, asbestos, mold, and more. It is designed to fit your face properly to promote efficient [...]
How Carolina Pharmacy Helps With Medication Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic The current COVID-19 global crisis has placed a huge strain on the country’s health system. People are advised to stay at home and observe social distancing to help contain and minimize the spread of the virus.  The virus is particularly dangerous for people suffering [...]
How to Protect Yourself Against COVID-19 When You Pick Up Your Prescription With almost a million of Americans contracting COVID-19 and thousands dying, safety is a huge consideration and everyone’s top priority. This includes making sure that you are safe when you leave your home to get groceries or just to pick up a prescription [...]
Common Spring Illnesses and How to Avoid Them Spring marks the end of winter. It’s a signal for people to come outdoors because warmer days are here. Of course, with COVID-19 quarantine orders in effect, we are all advised to stay indoors. However, staying indoors doesn’t mean that we can completely avoid common Spring illnesses. [...]
How to Refill Your Medication During COVID-19 Quarantine As COVID-19 spreads across the United States, people are advised to stay at home and observe social distancing. Not surprisingly, people are worried about running out of their prescriptions. Thus, they are considering getting enough supply to last them the entire quarantine period. Perhaps, you are wondering [...]
What is COVID-19? The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, belongs in the family of coronaviruses. This is one of the seven types of coronaviruses, a type of coronavirus that causes respiratory problems in humans. Like the viruses, MERS and SARS, COVID-19 may have likely evolved from viruses within animals. It causes flu or colds-like symptoms in people [...]
Top 6 Questions to Ask Your Pharmacist The next time you visit your local pharmacy, you might want to pose a few questions to your pharmacist.  It doesn’t matter if you’ve taken your medications for years or just a few days, you need to understand the medication you are taking and how they interact with [...]
Everyone looks forward to spring. It’s everyone’s favorite season, but it’s also the season for spring allergies. Plants release pollen, and people start sniffing and sneezing. Welcome to allergy season! There is no permanent cure, but there are ways to survive spring allergies. What Causes Spring Allergies? The biggest sneezing trigger is pollen. Unfortunately, it [...]
Medication synchronization is the process of coordinating medication refills, so people can pick them up on the same day every month. It is performed by pharmacies, and it helps avoid the likelihood of people missing their doses. How Medication Synchronization Works So, how do you get your pharmacist to synchronize your medication? First off, you [...]
Perhaps, you’re moving to a new city or state, or maybe you’ve found a pharmacy that sells medications at a much lower price. So, maybe you’re wondering how to transfer your prescriptions to another pharmacy. Why Do People Transfer Their Prescriptions? There are some things you need to deal with when transferring your prescriptions. You [...]
