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Students should be able to explain the use of antibiotics and other medicines in treating disease. |
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How are infective diseases treated? EW: Describe the importance of antibiotics and the impact of antibiotic resistance. Explain how this has impacted on cleaning practices in Britain’s hospitals. Research MRSA and C. difficile infections and treatment.
GF: Suggest what patients, doctors and scientists should do to ensure we will have effective antibiotics in the future. |
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Antibiotics, such as penicillin, are medicines that help to cure bacterial disease by killing infective bacteria inside the body. |
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How are drugs used to cure bacterial diseases? Create some illness cards and students act out role play situations for doctors and patients. Doctors needs to prescribe a course of treatment. |
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It is important that specific bacteria should be treated by specific antibiotics. |
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Why are specific antibiotics prescribed by doctors? Modelling of lock and key theory using plasticine shapes either as teacher demo to explain or with students making own to assess understanding. |
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The use of antibiotics has greatly reduced deaths from infectious bacterial diseases. |
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What has the impact of using antibiotics to treat infectious bacterial diseases? Interpret graphs showing bacterial population growth |
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However, the emergence of strains resistant to antibiotics is of great concern. |
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Why are doctors advised to not overly prescribe antibiotics? Discuss the impact of overuse of antibiotics after watching the video: https://www.nhs.uk/video/pages/antibiotics-dont-work-for-everything.aspx |
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Antibiotics cannot kill viral pathogens. |
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Why can antibiotics not be used to treat viral infections? Recall the structure of a virus and how it attacks the body and how drugs travel in the body (in the blood).
Then ask the question why are antibiotics not given for viral infections? |
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Painkillers and other medicines are used to treat the symptoms of disease but do not kill pathogens. |
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Why do people take painkillers and other medicines when suffering from an infectious disease? |
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It is difficult to develop drugs that kill viruses without also damaging the body?s tissues. |
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Why are there no drugs to kill viruses? (vaccinations prevent infection) EW: Explain why doctors will not prescribe antibiotics for viral infections. |
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