Health guides
Practical guides from our UK pharmacy team on common health questions: what symptoms mean, how treatments work and when to see a GP instead.
Your privacy at MedsRus
We count visits to our website so we can see which pages help people and fix the ones that don't. You can switch this off under "Manage choices".
With your permission, we'd also like to use Google Ads cookies to see which of our adverts lead to orders. This helps keep our advertising costs, and our prices, down.
- We never use your health information or consultation answers for advertising.
- You can change your mind at any time with "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page.
- Read more in our privacy and cookie policy.
Manage your cookie choices
Choose which cookies we can use. Necessary cookies are always on because the website can't work without them.
Or choose individually below.
Necessary
Always on
These cookies make the website work: keeping your basket and login, remembering your consultation answers as you go, remembering your cookie choices and protecting our forms from spam. They can't be switched off here, but you can block them in your browser settings; parts of the site may then stop working.
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| Cookie | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|
| OCSESSID | Keeps your basket, login and consultation answers during your visit | 1 day |
| currency | Remembers the currency for prices | 30 days |
| mr_consent | Remembers your cookie choices | 6 months |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Google reCAPTCHA: protects sign-up, newsletter, review and returns forms from automated spam | 6 months |
Site analytics
Google Analytics 4 · on unless you switch it off
Tells us how many people visit, which pages they read, how long they stay, what device and browser they use, their approximate area (town or region, not an exact location) and how they found us, for example a Google search. We use this only to measure and improve our website. Google signals and advertising features are switched off for these cookies, so they aren't used to build an advertising profile of you.
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| Cookie | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Tells visits from the same browser apart, using a random ID | 2 years |
| _ga_D1B9W0HGQ8 | Keeps the current visit together for our main analytics property | 2 years |
| _ga_05L2JCJLTL | Keeps the current visit together for our second analytics property | 2 years |
Provider: Google Ireland Ltd and Google LLC. Data may be processed in the United States under the UK-US data bridge. Google privacy policy.
Advert measurement
Google Ads conversion tracking · off unless you switch it on
When you arrive from one of our Google adverts, this lets us see whether that visit led to an order and its value. It tells us which adverts are worth paying for. It doesn't share what you ordered or anything about your health with Google.
Switching this on helps us keep our prices low, and costs you nothing.
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| Cookie | Purpose | Lasts |
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| _gcl_au | Links a visit from a Google advert to a later order | 90 days |
Provider: Google Ireland Ltd and Google LLC. Data may be processed in the United States under the UK-US data bridge.
Personalised adverts
Google Ads remarketing · off unless you switch it on
Lets Google show you MedsRus adverts on other websites and apps after you've visited us. Google's rules don't allow adverts to be personalised by health conditions or prescription medicines, so these are based only on a general visit to our site.
Switching this on helps us reach more people at lower cost, which keeps our prices down.
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Uses the same Google Ads cookie as advert measurement (_gcl_au, 90 days), plus cookies Google sets on its own websites if you're signed in to a Google account. Provider: Google Ireland Ltd and Google LLC.