Chemists Promote Products For Swine Flu Prevention
Many pharmacies across the UK are seeing sales rise as the Swine flu pandemic becomes more wide spread. Most chemists are seeing items like wipes, thermometers and hand gels fly off the shelves, however, many are also trying to promote nutritional supplements.
Normally this wouldn’t sound too bad as they are just trying to help their business. However, if you think that they are only boosting sales because of people afraid of catching swine flu. A large number of people think that just because the chemists are promoting these digestive supplements, they actually help you to avoid swine flu. Really there is very little evidence to support the fact that they help to prevent swine flu.
A poster was placed into many pharmacy windows the other day reading: 100,000 new cases predicted per day by the end of August according to the Government. Bio-Glucan helps to maintain a healthy immune system, the body’s natural defences against infection.’. This is another example of chemists trying to get more benefits out of swine flu.
It’s thing like this that have made people concerned about the pandemic and want to buy all these useless items. The scaremongering has also led to many people eating more healthy food. No doubt this will aid Marks & Spencers sales of their new ACE pepper that was announced recently. This is the first pepper that contains your daily amount of vitamins A, C and E. Before this, the vitamin E was only ever found in fatty items like nuts.
Despite the numorous reports on the news saying not be worried and what are the actual best ways to prevent the spread. There’s always people out there who don’t trust what’s said in the news and would much rather buy things based on what the chemist says. I wouldn’t be surprised if it went so far that they said Silicea Gastro Gel would help prevent Swine flu!
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