English Vocabulary for Common Medicines & Medical supplies found in every medicine cabinet and First-Aid Kit

1. MEDICAL CARE
For common ailments & injuries

2. 1. Where do you keep medicine in your home?
2. What kinds of medicine do you have at home?
3. Do you have a First-Aid kit?

5. Here are some common vocabulary
words for medicine & medical
supplies

6. What do take when you have a…
Headache or Migraine?

7. General name: Pain Killer

8. What do take when you have a…
Sore Throat

9. Throat spray
Throat Lozenge

10. What do use when you have a…
cut
scrape
…and you are bleeding?

11. 1.
Antiseptic (hydrogen peroxide, alcohol)
2.
3.
Antiseptic ointment (to prevent wound infections)
Antibacterial Ointment
Band-aid; Bandage; Plaster (UK)

12. What do use when you have a…
Sprained Ankle /
Twisted Ankle

13. You need to wrap your ankle with a bandage

14. What do use when you have red, itchy
eyes?

15. Eye drops

16. What do you take when you have allergies?

17. Antihistamine

18. How can you treat a burn?

19. Gauze
Medical / Surgical Tape

20. This man is going to have heartburn.
What should he take?

21. Antacid

22. What do you take when you have
diarrhea?

23. Anti-Diarrheal medicine

24. What do you take when you have
constipation?

25. A Laxative