Drugs

• Medications, also known as drugs, are used in medicine to treat various conditions.
• The NHS spends over seventeen billion pounds a year on medications.
• Medications can be categorized into two groups: those that relieve symptoms and those that treat the disease.
• Painkillers, such as aspirin and paracetamol, are used to relieve symptoms of a sore throat.
• Cough medicine can reduce the need to cough.
• Antibiotics can kill bacteria and prevent the growth of new bacteria, but they don't work on viruses.
• Antibiotics can only kill certain types of bacteria, so doctors might need to do a test first to find out which type of bacteria you have before they can prescribe an antibiotic.
• Antibiotic resistance is a problem where bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, meaning that we can't use the same antibiotics to treat those bacteria anymore.