Drugs

Question 1

What are painkillers? What do they do?

Answer 1

Are drugs that relieve pain. However, they don’t actually tackle the cause of the disease or kill pathogens. Just help reduce symptoms.

Question 2

What are antibiotics

Answer 2

They kill the bacteria causing the problem without killing your own body cells.

Question 3

How can bacteria develop to antibiotics?

Answer 3

Can become resistant. Bacteria can mutate. This means if you have an infection only the non-resistant strands will be killed.

Question 4

What is aspirin and where is it found?

Answer 4

A painkiller to lower fever. Developed from chemical found in willow.

Question 5

What is digitalis? Found where?

Answer 5

Used to treat heart conditions. Found in foxgloves.

Question 6

What are the 3 main stages of testing drugs?

Answer 6

1) test on human cells and tissues in lab
2) test drug on live animals
3) test on human volunteers