1.5 Medicines and diseases

1.5 Medicines and diseases

by Bri Vokopola

1.5 Medicines and diseases

​1. Have you ever taken medicine? Why did you take it?

​2. The girl is taking liquid medicine. What kinds of medicine do you know?

​3. Why do you think an adult is giving her the medicine?

Vocabulary

​germs - very tiny living things that can cause diseases

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​infect - when the germs get into your body and make you ill

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​infectious disease - a disease cause by germs that you can give it to others

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instructions- information that tell

us how to do something.

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medicines- a thing we take and use to make us get better when we are ill, for example cough medicine

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prevent- to stop from happening, for example the rain coat prevents us from getting wet.

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vaccinations- injections or other medicines that stop us from getting the disease

Think like a scientist

How to take medicines safely

Types of medicines

drip bag

​medicine from inhalers

​ointment or creams

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