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At Feely’s totalhealth Pharmacy, Dublin Road, Tuam, the team are trained and ready to offer the best advice to keep you feeling well this winter. The pharmacy offers a wide range of vitamins and natural remedies combined with expert advice to find a healthcare routine that works for you and your lifestyle. As we return to the workplace and schools reopen this month, Feely's is offering a buy one, get one half price, promotion on selected vitamins until the end of September, helping you and your family take total control of your health.

We all find it hard to get to sleep from time to time, but several days of poor sleep can really take its toll. Three in 10 people in Ireland struggle to get enough sleep, and this has a knock-on effect on how they function mentally, emotionally, and physically the following day.

We are just past the so-called most depressing day of the year, the third Monday of January, commonly known as Blue Monday. Although the evidence is lacking on how true that is, as we know that depression can affect people all year round rather than just one day of the year. However people may feel a little low and tired during this period of the year due to the post-Christmas slump, mixed with the cold weather and lack of sunlight.

Athlete's food is a condition where the skin in between the toes and the side of the foot is inflamed and infected with fungus, it is usually red raw with weepy blisters. The medical name for athlete's food is tinea pedis, you could pick up this condition in locker rooms, gyms, swimming pools, and communal showers, especially when walking barefoot. It can also spread directly from person to person. In the defence forces this condition is also known as jungle rot.

If you are of a certain age you will no doubt still be able to rhyme off several natural remedies from your childhood. I recall the use of mud to ease aching feet, and of course the use of a dock leaf on a nettle sting. Although, whatever properties were in the leaf we negated by our vigorous rubbing on the wound that probably created an aggravation far worse than the initial sting.

If you are of a certain age you will no doubt still be able to rhyme off several natural remedies from your childhood. I recall the use of mud to ease aching feet, and of course the use of a dock leaf on a nettle sting. Although, whatever properties were in the leaf we negated by our vigorous rubbing on the wound that probably created an aggravation far worse than the initial sting.