Guest Blog: Healthy Families and Savings or the Winter Season

For those who are new to the ScriptSave® WellRx prescription savings program, you may not realize just how long our company has been in the business of saving patients money on their prescriptions. It’s actually well over 20 years – we date back to 1993.

It’s certainly nothing new to us to encounter people ‘paying it forward’ and helping to spread the word. That said, after all that time, we’ve only recently opened our website to guest bloggers.

Tabitha Blue describes herself as a, “Mommy, designer, blogger, wifey, sunshine chaser and lover of babies, lipstick, good food and beautiful things, especially when found in unexpected places.” Tabitha hosts the “Fresh Mommy Blog” and has been named Tampa’s most influential mommy blogger and hosts her own online cooking show, KitchenWise. She has made appearances on Daytime TV and has been featured multiple times in print and online magazines, other blogs and websites … and, now/here, we’re also thrilled to be letting her take over our blog page for this post about…

“Healthy Savings and Healthy Families For the Winter Season”

As a mom of four, I’m always looking for ways to take care of my family, working to keep them healthy, both emotionally and physically.

With cold and flu season in full swing, there are a few ways I help prepare my family and home to prevent the spread of germs and build up our immunity as much as possible:

1. Hydration

Keeping everyone hydrated is key to a healthy home. The effects of dehydration can be vast and it’s amazing how much better our bodies are at fighting off an impending virus when we’ve been pushing water and other fluids.

2. Vitamins

In the winter months, we may need to offer our bodies a little extra help in the vitamin department. Citrus fruits aren’t as fresh or readily available and we don’t soak up quite as much Vitamin D from the sun. (Note: One large lemon contains 45mg of Vitamin C, which makes it a huge immune boosting fruit. Add to water to get those extra “C”s). Find ways to up that vitamin intake through outdoor activities, fresh fruits & veggies and even a vitamin supplement.

3. Rest

A body that is tired is simply more susceptible to illness. While this absolutely applies to both adults and children, did you know that children between the ages 3-11 years need 10-12 hours of sleep a day? It seems like such a large number in our busy world full of extra-curricular activities, homework and more. But getting the right amount of rest and building a solid bedtime routine in the winter months is imperative to good health.

4. Hand washing

The one set of items that is ALWAYS with us and always transferring germs from one surface to another is our hands. Between school, dance classes, music lessons, sports, the library and every other place our kids have wandered, hands stay busy. Eating with unwashed hands, rubbing the face, fingers in the mouth (happens SO much more often that you might think, especially with little ones), all means that germs spread to our bodies quickly. Hand washing is one of the number-one ways of preventing that transfer. To help make it happen often, make it fun! Foam soaps, fun shapes or colors of soap, silly songs or competitions are all great ways to encourage hand washing.

Even with all of the best prevention methods in play, there will be times that a bug knocks one (or a few) of us down. When that happens, I like to be prepared!

5. ScriptSave WellRx

What’s worse than having a sick kiddo (or two, or three)? Having to drag them around from pharmacy to pharmacy finding the best deal or which one has what we need in stock. Because, you guys, I’ve totally been there … and actually have gone home empty-handed after dragging little-ones to 2 or 3 places because the right prescriptions weren’t in stock or we were referred somewhere else to find an affordable price. It can be exhausting.

Part of taking care of my home is making sure that I’m not spending money that doesn’t need to be spent. Shopping for prescriptions is not like shopping for groceries (but it should be). Prescription prices are not immediately obvious and finding the best deal is important to me, and it took me a while before I realized that different pharmacies can charge vastly different prices for exactly the same medications. This is where the ScriptSave WellRx website and mobile app can really help. Even having insurance coverage does not necessarily mean low-cost prescription meds and there have been times I’ve found that paying cash for some prescriptions has saved me money as well.

The ScriptSave WellRx website and mobile app has a fast, easy, free price-check tool that does all the local price-checking (kind of like searching for a hotel or a flight deal), which means just a few swipes from the comfort of my own home and I know exactly where to go to save money.

Anyone can register for free (and without even the need to enter credit card details) and, in doing so, have free access to a host of helpful tools (even besides the money savings!) like “Take-your-pill” reminders, prescription-refill reminders, Ask a Pharmacist hotline, multi-med pricing and more.

It’s a simple app to download and figure out, and one of the new features I really liked while searching for an antibiotic for my sweet babe and a different one for her big brother where I live outside of Tampa, Florida, is “Medicine Chest Pricing”. With it, just enter the details of multiple prescriptions at the same time, and then click the “Price-check” button to see EITHER, the one single pharmacy that offers the lowest ‘one-stop price’ OR the specific combination of pharmacies that will provide the lowest individual price for each single prescription.

Simple to use, and simple ways to save while keeping us healthy. A win for this busy family indeed.

Download the free WellRx app from the iOS app store or the Google Play Store,
and get registered to take advantage of our free medication adherence tools.