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1.5 Medicines and infectious diseases

Medicines

We take medicines to help make us better when we have an illness.

Some medicines stop us from getting ill. We say that these

medicines prevent us from getting ill.

Taking medicines safely

Medicines make us better, but we have to take them safely
and properly. You should only take medicines if they are

given to you by a doctor, a nurse or an adult who looks

after you. All medicines come with instructions. The

instructions tell you how much medicine you must take

and how often you should take it. We must always follow those instructions.

Think like a scientist 1

How to take medicines safely If the instructions

Arun and his friends talked about how to take tell you to take the medicine

medicines safely. These are their ideas:
with food, you must make

It’s okay to take sure that you do.
someone else’s medicine

if they have the same You must always

illness as you. take the right amount
of medicine. If you take
If you forget to take your
medicine in the morning just too much it can
be harmful.
take more at lunchtime.

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