Medications

Medications, side effects, vocabulary

Pharmacy, Drugstore and Chemist’s
• In NZ, Australia and the UK the term Chemist used to
refer to pharmacies and pharmacists.
• In Britain, a chemist's or chemist is a shop where you c
an buy medicine,
cosmetics, and some household items.
• In the United States, a shop where you can buy medici
ne and cosmetics is called a drugstore. In some drugst
ores, you can also buy simple meals and snacks.
• A pharmacy is the place within a chemist's or drugstor
e, or within a supermarket or other business, where yo
u can get prescription drugs.
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• Names: medicine, medicines, medications,
drugs, pills, tablets, syrups, creams, sprays
• Medications help sick people feel better.
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• What do we need first before we can get
medication?
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• What do we need first before we can get
medication?
Prescription (the paper that says what
medication to buy)
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• Who gives us the prescription?
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• Who gives us the prescription?
Doctor
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• Where do we take the prescription?
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• Where do we take the prescription?
Pharmacy (the place where you buy medicines)
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• Who gives us the medicine at the pharmacy?
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• Who gives us the medicine at the pharmacy?
Pharmacist (the person who works with medicine
at a pharmacy)
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• A doctor gives us a prescription
• We take the prescription to a pharmacy
• The pharmacist fills the prescription (this
means gives the patient medicine)
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Important vocabulary for pharmacy and
medications:
Prescription
Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill
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Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:

Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the
name of medicine
Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill
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Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:

Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the
name of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill
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Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:

Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name of
medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and
gives you medicine
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill
Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name
of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and
gives you medicine
Dose/dosage – how much medicine you should take
and when
Side effects
Refill
 Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name
of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and
gives you medicine
Dose/dosage – how much medicine you should take and
when
Side effects – the bad problems that happen when you
take medicine
Refill
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Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name of
medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and gives
you medicine
Dose/dosage – how much medicine you should take and
when
Side effects – the bad problems that happen when you take
medicine
Refill – to get more medicine because you finished all the pills
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The doctor gave me a _________ for a new drug today.

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The doctor gave me a prescription for a new drug today.

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The _________ for this medication is one pill every five hours.
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The dose/dosage for this medication is one pill every five
hours.

(Remember: overdose is the emergency that means a

person took too much medication. Over means too
much, dose means how much and when to take
medicine.)
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One ________________ of this medication is nausea.

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One side effect of this medication is nausea.

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The pharmacist __________ my prescription.

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The pharmacist fills my prescription.

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I take my prescription to the _________ to get it filled.

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I take my prescription to the pharmacy to get it filled.

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I finished my medication, so I need a __________.

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I finished my medication, so I need a refill.

(We can also say “refill” when we want more to drink at

breakfast, lunch and dinner. “I want a refill of tea. Please refill
my tea.”)
 Types of Medications
Over the Counter (OTC)
Over the counter medicine means you don’t need a
prescription to use it.

What types of sicknesses can use OTC medicines?

Over the Counter (OTC) Medication
• Common cold, • headache,
• sore throat, • toothache,
• cough, • stomach upset
(antacids and acid
• nausea,
reducers)
• fever, • skin damage from sun
• diarrhea, (sunscreens),
• constipation, • dandruff shampoo,
• itching, • toothpaste,
Prescription Only Medication (POM)
• Prescription Only Medication (POM), which are
legally available only with a valid prescription
issued by a GP or another suitably qualified
healthcare professional.
• For ex: antibiotics, blood pressure blood
medications, opioid painkillers, contraception:
Combined Hormonal Contraceptives.
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What are some side effects to medications?

Talk to your partner and think of as many side effects

as you can.
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Common side effects: Serious side effects:
Dizziness Stroke
Nausea Heart attack
Vomiting Depression

Headache Internal bleeding

Suicidal thoughts
Drowsiness
Death
Dry mouth
Skin rash
Blood pressure change
Hair growth, hair loss
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More vocabulary about medicine:

Cure, heal, fix
Label
Directions
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients
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More vocabulary about medicine:

Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label
Directions
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients
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More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick
anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients
 Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients
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More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings – the part of the label that talks about side
effects and bad things
Generic
Ingredients
Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick
anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings – the part of the label that talks about side
effects and bad things
Generic – the cheap kind of medicine
Ingredients
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More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick
anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings – the part of the label that talks about side
effects and bad things
Generic – the cheap kind of medicine
Ingredients – many things that make one medicine
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My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
________ to learn more about the medicine. I am
looking for the dose, so I am reading the
__________. I bought the ________ medicine and
not the expensive one. One __________ for this
medication is that I should not drive a car when I
take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me. I hope
this medicine _______ me because I don’t want to
be sick anymore!
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My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the

label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking for
the dose, so I am reading the __________. I bought the
________ medicine and not the expensive one. One
__________ for this medication is that I should not drive
a car when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me.
I hope this medicine _______ me because I don’t want
to be sick anymore!
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My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the

label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking
for the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought
the ________ medicine and not the expensive one.
One __________ for this medication is that I should
not drive a car when I take it. It will be bad and
dangerous for me. I hope this medicine _______ me
because I don’t want to be sick anymore!
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My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking
for the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought
the generic medicine and not the expensive one. One
__________ for this medication is that I should not
drive a car when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous
for me. I hope this medicine _______ me because I
don’t want to be sick anymore!
 Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking for
the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought the
generic medicine and not the expensive one. One
warning for this medication is that I should not drive a car
when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me. I hope
this medicine _______ me because I don’t want to be
sick anymore!
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My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking
for the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought
the generic medicine and not the expensive one. One
warning for this medication is that I should not drive a
car when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me.
I hope this medicine cures me because I don’t want to
be sick anymore!
Relief – this
means to feel
better

Non-drowsy
– will not
make you
tired
What are the
different 1 tablet daily; not more than 1 tablet in 24 hours
parts of this
label?

What is the
dose for
adults?
 Drug Facts
• The Active ingredient/ Purpose section tells
you about the part of your medicine that
makes it work – its name, what it does, and
how much is in each pill or teaspoon (5 mL).
• The Uses section tells you the problems the
medicine will treat.
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The Warnings section tells you:
• when you should talk to your doctor first
• how the medicine might make you feel
• when you should stop using the medicine
• when you shouldn’t use the medicine
• things you shouldn’t do while using the
medicine
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The Warnings section also tells you:

• to check with a doctor before using

medicine if you are pregnant or
breastfeeding
• to keep medicines away from children
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The Directions section tells you how to safely
use the medicine:
• how much to use
• how to use it
• how often to use it (how many times per day /
how many hours apart)
• how long you can use it
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• The Other Information section tells you how
to keep your medicine when you aren’t using
it.
• The Inactive Ingredients section tells you any
part of the medicine that aren’t active
ingredients.
• Inactive ingredients help form a pill, add color,
or help the medicine last longer.
• http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUsingMedicineSafely/Un
derstandingOver-the-CounterMedicines/UCM201466.pdf
 Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NXqTqZLl90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7utC_dJ2Stg
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Watch this video for practice using medical

vocabulary.
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