Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Explaining Medication
Explaining Medication
Vocabulary
Useful Expression
Oral medication
Please take this ... (one tablet per day/one tablet three times a day, every 8 hours)
Syrup one spoonful .... (three times a day)
To reduce ... (your temperature)
To relieve ... (physical problem)
Your pain
Your running nose
Your cold
Etc
Here are some tablets/pills (which) you are to take ... (one) of every ... (eight) hours
Have you taken the medicine?
Giving caution
Just tell me if there’s something you don’t understand and I’ll go over it all
You must call the nurse if there is an adverse reaction
Don’t take this more than ... (three times/8 tablets in 24 hours)
Don’t use it if it makes ... (a skin rash)
Discontinue if an adverse reaction occurs
Take these antibiotics all up
In case (the tablets) give you indigestion, please ... (take them during/after meals) of ... make you
suffer from indigestion, please ....