Sherilyn Houle

Sherilyn Houle

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Sherilyn Houle, BSP, PhD, is an assistant professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, ON, and a pharmacist at the International Travel & Immunizations Clinic, Centre for Family Medicine in Kitchener, ON. She has her Certificate in Travel Health from the International Society of Travel Medicine.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

10/29/2024
Getting your zzz’s while overseas: A guide to jet lag
Melatonin is generally used for eastward travel only, since westward travel is easier to adapt to naturally, making melatonin unnecessary unless travel spans 12 or more time zones.

Sherilyn Houle
6/16/2024
Why the Canadian Immunization Guide should be our first stop for vaccination decision-making
Vaccinations are an important—but not the only—component of any travel consultation.

Sherilyn Houle
12/3/2023
Big adventures for little explorers—Considerations for travelling with children
A 2022 U.S. survey found that 85% of parents reported being likely or very likely to travel as a family in the next 12 months, representing an increase from pre-pandemic levels of 70% in 2019.

Sherilyn Houle
4/12/2023
Assisting last-minute travellers
Whether through lack of knowledge or emergency, some patients simply won't have the typical time needed to handle pretravel health details.

Sherilyn Houle
8/3/2022
The Golden Years: Providing pretravel care for older adults
Older adults may take longer to adjust to changes in altitude or humidity, and be more prone to motion sickness, jet lag, insomnia and constipation.

Sherilyn Houle
3/21/2022
Common drug interactions in travel medicine
Consideration of the nature and duration of travel should be part of any interaction assessment.

Sherilyn Houle
6/20/2021
Practice Experts: Oust the ouch
Strategies to reduce injection pain

Sherilyn Houle
2/20/2021
Travellers’ thrombosis: not just an ‘economy class syndrome'

Sherilyn Houle
10/19/2020
Pokes during the pandemic – travel vaccines and COVID-19

Sherilyn Houle
7/7/2020
Destination: Information! Navigating travel health resources
While travel is currently severely curtailed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmacists can use this opportunity to better familiarize themselves with travel health resources.

Sherilyn Houle