• Question: how do medicines work

    Asked by haron338 to Joe, Juan, Kate, Rory, Rosie on 11 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by lovebomb, loisfyfe.
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      Rory Miles answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Medicines work in lots of different ways, depending on what the person who is taking them has. For example, calpol works by reducing pain by preventing the body from signalling to your brain that it is in pain. Antibiotics are used when someone has an infection with a bug and works by stopping the bug from growing or by killing it. If you have a cold, you might be given something to stop this, which works by preventing the virus (the thing that causes the cold) from producing more viruses, which causes the cold to continue. There’s many more ways in which medicines work , and we keep finding more too!

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