Avoiding dangerous medicines
I can explain how to stay safe around medicines in the home.
Avoiding dangerous medicines
I can explain how to stay safe around medicines in the home.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Only doctors and pharmacists can give out medicines safely.
- Medicine can be important for making people feel better.
- Taking the wrong medicine can be very dangerous.
- Taking too much medicine than prescribed can be very dangerous.
- Some medicines might look like sweets but are not; they can be dangerous.
Keywords
Doctor - someone who is trained to help us get better when we are ill
Pharmacist - someone who is trained to give advice and give us medicine
Medicine - something that can make us better when we are ill
Dangerous - when something is dangerous it can cause us harm
Common misconception
All medicines are good for you.
Although medicines given by doctors or pharmacists can be very important, taking the wrong medicines, or too much medicine from what has been prescribed, can be very harmful.
Equipment
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
Lesson video
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Starter quiz
4 Questions
something you can eat on your own
only for cleaning, never for eating or touching
only use after asking a trusted adult
Exit quiz
6 Questions
Tell a trusted adult straight away.
Speak to your doctor.
Give the medicine to a trusted adult.
someone who is trained to give advice and give us medicine
someone who is trained to help us get better when we are ill
something that can make us better when we are ill