• Question: How does Medicine Work with our body?

    Asked by Bilbo to Ross on 16 Nov 2015.
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      Ross King answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      This is a BRILLIANT question! And I love the name, Bilbo!

      Basically, medicines work with our body in thousands of different ways. Our bodies are so complex, that all of the different cells in different places work in totally different ways. So, I can take an aspirin for a headache because it stops the release of small chemicals that make me have a sore head. I can then take an antihistamine to stop me sneezing with hay fever because it stops the release of another chemical from a different type of cell. Medicines work by changing how the body works in very specific ways, and that is why most medicines are very safe – because we are only changing one or two things our bodies do at a time.

      Does that help? Hope so 🙂

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