The document discusses various topics related to medications and pharmacies. It defines key terms like prescription, pharmacy, pharmacist, and provides explanations of different types of medications. It also lists important vocabulary words for understanding pharmacy and medication, including prescription, dose, side effects, and refill. Several examples are provided to demonstrate use of these words in context.

1. Medications
Medications, side effects, vocabulary

2. Pharmacy, Drugstore and Chemist’s
• In NZ, Australia and the UK the term Chemist used to
refer to pharmacies and pharmacists.
• In Britain, a chemist's or chemist is a shop where you c
an buy medicine,
cosmetics, and some household items.
• In the United States, a shop where you can buy medici
ne and cosmetics is called a drugstore. In some drugst
ores, you can also buy simple meals and snacks.
• A pharmacy is the place within a chemist's or drugstor
e, or within a supermarket or other business, where yo
u can get prescription drugs.

3. Medications
• Names: medicine, medicines, medications,
drugs, pills, tablets, syrups, creams, sprays
• Medications help sick people feel better.

4. Medications
• What do we need first before we can get
medication?

5. Medications
• What do we need first before we can get
medication?
Prescription (the paper that says what
medication to buy)

6. Medications
• Who gives us the prescription?

7. Medications
• Who gives us the prescription?
Doctor

8. Medications
• Where do we take the prescription?

9. Medications
• Where do we take the prescription?
Pharmacy (the place where you buy medicines)

10. Medications
• Who gives us the medicine at the pharmacy?

11. Medications
• Who gives us the medicine at the pharmacy?
Pharmacist (the person who works with medicine
at a pharmacy)

12. Medications
• A doctor gives us a prescription
• We take the prescription to a pharmacy
• The pharmacist fills the prescription (this
means gives the patient medicine)

13. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and
medications:
Prescription
Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill

14. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the
name of medicine
Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill

15. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the
name of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill

16. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name of
medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and
gives you medicine
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill

17. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name
of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and
gives you medicine
Dose/dosage – how much medicine you should take
and when
Side effects
Refill

18. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name
of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and
gives you medicine
Dose/dosage – how much medicine you should take and
when
Side effects – the bad problems that happen when you
take medicine
Refill

19. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name of
medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and gives
you medicine
Dose/dosage – how much medicine you should take and
when
Side effects – the bad problems that happen when you take
medicine
Refill – to get more medicine because you finished all the pills

20. Medications
The doctor gave me a _________ for a new drug today.

21. Medications
The doctor gave me a prescription for a new drug today.

22. Medications
The _________ for this medication is one pill every five hours.

23. Medications
The dose/dosage for this medication is one pill every five
hours.
(Remember: overdose is the emergency that means a
person took too much medication. Over means too
much, dose means how much and when to take
medicine.)

24. Medications
One ________________ of this medication is nausea.

25. Medications
One side effect of this medication is nausea.

26. Medications
The pharmacist __________ my prescription.

27. Medications
The pharmacist fills my prescription.

28. Medications
I take my prescription to the _________ to get it filled.

29. Medications
I take my prescription to the pharmacy to get it filled.

30. Medications
I finished my medication, so I need a __________.

31. Medications
I finished my medication, so I need a refill.
(We can also say “refill” when we want more to drink at
breakfast, lunch and dinner. “I want a refill of tea. Please refill
my tea.”)

32. Types of Medications
Over the Counter (OTC)
Over the counter medicine means you don’t need a
prescription to use it.
What types of sicknesses can use OTC medicines?

33. Over the Counter (OTC) Medication
• Common cold,
• sore throat,
• cough,
• nausea,
• fever,
• diarrhea,
• constipation,
• itching,
• headache,
• toothache,
• stomach upset
(antacids and acid
reducers)
• skin damage from sun
(sunscreens),
• dandruff shampoo,
• toothpaste,

34. Prescription Only Medication (POM)
• Prescription Only Medication (POM), which are
legally available only with a valid prescription
issued by a GP or another suitably qualified
healthcare professional.
• For ex: antibiotics, blood pressure blood
medications, opioid painkillers, contraception:
Combined Hormonal Contraceptives.

35. Medications
What are some side effects to medications?
Talk to your partner and think of as many side effects
as you can.

36. MedicationsMedications
Common side effects:
Dizziness
Nausea
Vomiting
Headache
Drowsiness
Dry mouth
Skin rash
Blood pressure change
Hair growth, hair loss
Serious side effects:
Stroke
Heart attack
Depression
Internal bleeding
Suicidal thoughts
Death

37. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix
Label
Directions
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients

38. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label
Directions
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients

39. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick
anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients

40. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients

41. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings – the part of the label that talks about side
effects and bad things
Generic
Ingredients

42. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick
anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings – the part of the label that talks about side
effects and bad things
Generic – the cheap kind of medicine
Ingredients

43. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick
anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings – the part of the label that talks about side
effects and bad things
Generic – the cheap kind of medicine
Ingredients – many things that make one medicine

44. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
________ to learn more about the medicine. I am
looking for the dose, so I am reading the
__________. I bought the ________ medicine and
not the expensive one. One __________ for this
medication is that I should not drive a car when I
take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me. I hope
this medicine _______ me because I don’t want to
be sick anymore!

45. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking for
the dose, so I am reading the __________. I bought the
________ medicine and not the expensive one. One
__________ for this medication is that I should not drive
a car when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me.
I hope this medicine _______ me because I don’t want
to be sick anymore!

46. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking
for the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought
the ________ medicine and not the expensive one.
One __________ for this medication is that I should
not drive a car when I take it. It will be bad and
dangerous for me. I hope this medicine _______ me
because I don’t want to be sick anymore!

47. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking
for the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought
the generic medicine and not the expensive one. One
__________ for this medication is that I should not
drive a car when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous
for me. I hope this medicine _______ me because I
don’t want to be sick anymore!

48. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking for
the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought the
generic medicine and not the expensive one. One
warning for this medication is that I should not drive a car
when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me. I hope
this medicine _______ me because I don’t want to be
sick anymore!

49. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking
for the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought
the generic medicine and not the expensive one. One
warning for this medication is that I should not drive a
car when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me.
I hope this medicine cures me because I don’t want to
be sick anymore!

50. Relief – this
means to feel
better
Non-drowsy
– will not
make you
tired

51. What are the
different
parts of this
label?
What is the
dose for
adults?
1 tablet daily; not more than 1 tablet in 24 hours

52. Drug Facts
• The Active ingredient/ Purpose section tells
you about the part of your medicine that
makes it work – its name, what it does, and
how much is in each pill or teaspoon (5 mL).
• The Uses section tells you the problems the
medicine will treat.

53. Drug Facts
The Warnings section tells you:
• when you should talk to your doctor first
• how the medicine might make you feel
• when you should stop using the medicine
• when you shouldn’t use the medicine
• things you shouldn’t do while using the
medicine

54. Drug Facts
The Warnings section also tells you:
• to check with a doctor before using
medicine if you are pregnant or
breastfeeding
• to keep medicines away from children

55. Drug Facts
The Directions section tells you how to safely
use the medicine:
• how much to use
• how to use it
• how often to use it (how many times per day /
how many hours apart)
• how long you can use it

56. Drug Facts
• The Other Information section tells you how
to keep your medicine when you aren’t using
it.
• The Inactive Ingredients section tells you any
part of the medicine that aren’t active
ingredients.
• Inactive ingredients help form a pill, add color,
or help the medicine last longer.
• http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUsingMedicineSafely/Un
derstandingOver-the-CounterMedicines/UCM201466.pdf

57. Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NXqTqZLl90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7utC_dJ2Stg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyUl8XCTKg
Watch this video for practice using medical
vocabulary.
Watch this video for further practice
Video 3