Vaccination & Painkillers

Question 1

What are drugs?

Answer 1

Drugs are any substance that modify or affect chemical reactions in the body when taken into the body

Question 2

What are examples of drugs?

Answer 2

Ibuprofen
Paracetamol
Alcohol

Question 3

What are painkillers used for?

Answer 3

Painkillers are only used to treat symptoms, they cannot kill pathogens. Painkillers are a drug.

Question 4

What are antibiotics?

Answer 4

Antibiotics are a drug, they do kill the pathogen, but are only effective against bacterial or fungi pathogens.

Question 5

What is Penicillin?

Answer 5

Penicillin was the first antibiotic to be discovered, in 1928 by Alexander Fleming.

Question 6

How did Alexander Fleming discover Penicillin?

Answer 6

He noticed some bacteria he had left in a petri dish had been killed by the secretions from a naturally occurring mould.

Question 7

What is a vaccine?

Answer 7

Weakened of dead version of a pathogen which is injected inside you. As it is weakened, it shouldn’t make you ill, but there is a chance it will.

Question 8

What are the 3 steps of a vaccination?

Answer 8

1) introduce a small amount of inactive or dead pathogen
2) the body makes more WBCs which make antibodies to destroy pathogen
3) When the body is infected for real, the immune response will be larger and quicker!

Question 9

What is Herd Immunity?

Answer 9

When majority of people are immune or vaccinated for a particular disease or pathogen