Burnbrae Medical Practice

22/11/2025

🌍 This World AMR Awareness Week, we’re focusing on five simple actions everyone can take:

🔹Don’t share antibiotics: They won’t work properly and could make the problem worse.
🔹Follow your prescriber’s advice: Antibiotics don’t work on viruses like the common cold or flu.
🔹Wash your hands regularly: Help stop the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections.
🔹Follow your vet’s instructions for pets: Protect our animals from antibiotic resistance.
🔹Return unused medicines to the pharmacy: Throwing antibiotics in bins, sinks, or toilets can harm the environment.

Small changes in our habits can make a big difference

22/11/2025

19/11/2025

Battling the flu? 🤧 Here are some top tips from NHS inform to help you feel better and stop the flu from spreading:

TREATING FLU

🔹 Rest and Sleep: Give your body the time it needs to recover.
🔹 Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of water to keep yourself hydrated.
🔹 Medication: Take paracetamol or ibuprofen to reduce fever and ease aches and pains.

The symptoms of flu usually develop 1 to 3 days after becoming infected, and most people will feel better within a week.

PREVENTING THE SPREAD

🔹 Good Hygiene: Wash your hands often with warm water and soap.
🔹 Cover Up: Use a tissue or your elbow to cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze.
🔹 Get Rid: Bin used tissues as soon as possible.
🔹 Stay Home: If you have a high temperature or feel unwell, stay at home to avoid spreading the flu to others.
🔹 Clean Surfaces: regularly disinfect places like your computer keyboard, telephone and door handles.

Remember flu is spread by germs from coughs and sneezes, which can live on hands and surfaces for 24 hours. Follow our hygiene tips above to prevent the virus from spreading further!

19/11/2025

Are you living with chronic pain?

When you live with pain for a long time, it can feel like it takes over your life. It can affect how you feel emotionally, how you think, what you do and who you spend your time with. Our pain session provides information about chronic pain and practical suggestions on how to manage it better. By understanding more about how pain works and what chronic pain is, you might start to feel more in control of your life again and able to live more fully.

As a Lanarkshire resident, you are welcome to attend our free Living with Chronic Pain class:
Thursday 11 December 2025, 10am-11.30am, Ronald Miller Lecture Theatre, University Hospital Wishaw.

https://www.lanarkshiremindmatters.scot.nhs.uk/how-we-can-help-you/reclaim-your-life/

19/11/2025

It’s World COPD Day.

Colder weather can cause breathing problems if you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Make sure you know how to look after yourself or someone else living with COPD.

➡️ https://nhs.uk/conditions/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-copd/

19/11/2025

Temperatures are dropping across the country this week.

Cold weather can have a serious impact on health, particularly in older people and those with pre-existing health conditions.

Find out how you can stay well this winter ➡️ http://nhs.uk/staywell

15/11/2025

When you live with , the idea that it’s simply ‘feeling a bit tired’ is something of an understatement.

We've put together 5 tips to help you manage your fatigue:
https://www.arthritis-uk.org/news/2022/april/5-ways-to-help-with-fatigue/

15/11/2025

15/11/2025

Don’t ignore a fall — it could be a sign that you need support.
If you’re feeling unsteady, have had trips or falls, or have lost confidence when walking, help is available.

Our Falls Hub provides advice, guidance and support to help you stay steady, safe and independent.

📞 Call the Falls Hub: 01698 753 734
ℹ️ For more information on preventing falls, visit: www.nhsinform.co.uk/falls

15/11/2025

Yesterday, we were working to share the message that the flu season has started earlier than expected this year.

Dr Kimberly Marsh, our Viral Respiratory Pathogens lead at Public Health Scotland, spoke to journalists at a vaccine clinic to update them on the evolving situation and highlighted the importance of vaccination for eligible people given the increase in flu cases.

You can watch and listen again to the features below🔽

📺 BBC Scotland News at 03:22: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002m8tx/reporting-scotland-evening-news-13112025

📺 STV News at 04:22: https://player.stv.tv/episode/4tyv/stv-news-edinburgh

📻 BBC Radio Scotland at 05:34: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002m05j

Find out more about what's happening with this flu season by reading Kim's short blog, published earlier this week 🔽

✍️ https://publichealthscotland.scot/our-blog/2025/november/with-this-year-s-flu-season-starting-early-find-out-how-to-stay-protected/