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Antibiotics: Peer Education

Introduction

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Within this lesson plan, students will run a 1 hour lesson with other students and their peers. The

lesson can also be delivered to younger students in key stage 2 (ages 7-11), key stage 3 (ages 11-14),

key stage 4 (ages 14-16), or key stage 5 (ages 16-18).

Value of peer education

Peer education is becoming an increasingly popular educational tool due to the benefits for all

involved. For the peer educators, benefits can include positive changes in knowledge, skills,

attitudes and confidence, and development of key communication and social skills. By teaching

others, students gain a deeper understanding of the topics covered, and have increased knowledge

in the area, when compared to didactic learning.

Students taught by their peers may identify more closely with their educator, which allows the

development of positive relationships and a greater level of trust between educator and student.

What is covered?

Within this lesson plan, all students will cover the important topics of antibiotics and antibiotic

resistance. Not only will students learn the science behind how antibiotics work and how resistance

to antibiotics comes about, they will also learn essential health information, such as how to take

antibiotics correctly, which is important for PSHE education.

The topics are presented in a simplified and understandable way for students, allowing both the

students and peer educators to learn key information around this area.

Running the lesson

The lesson set-up is flexible and can be arranged to suit any educational establishment. Peer

educators could be split up to teach all classes across a year group, for example with 5-6 students

teaching each class. The peer educators should work in small teams, of between 2 and 6 students, to

deliver the lesson, deciding between themselves how to divide up the lesson delivery.

A range of activities are provided in this lesson plan and peer educators should choose the activities

which best suit the age and ability of their audience. The peer educators should be encouraged to

adapt the activities and script to suit their own style. Allow the peer educators time to prepare and

practice before the lesson delivery.

Optional homework is also provided for those being peer educated. This could be marked by the

peer educators, allowing them to receive feedback on their lesson.

Information for Teachers


Introduction

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Many infections get better on their own without the need for antibiotics

Bacterial and viral infections may cause similar symptoms

Antibiotics work on bacteria and have no effect on viruses

Bacteria are continually adapting to develop ways of not being killed by antibiotics (known as

antibiotic resistance)

Antibiotic resistance can spread between different bacteria in our body

Antibiotics can affect all the bacteria in your body, not just the ones which cause an infection.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria can be carried by healthy or ill people and passed on silently to

others

The more often you take antibiotics, the more likely you are to have an antibiotic resistant

infection

You should not share antibiotics as each antibiotic is personal to you and your infection.

Antibiotics should always be taken as instructed by a doctor or nurse, because overuse may

make the antibiotics less effective against the bacteria, and then the next time we have an

infection they may not work

Learning outcomes


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Antibiotics are special medicines which can only be prescribed by a doctor or nurse. Antibiotics are

used to treat bacterial infections such as meningitis, tuberculosis and pneumonia. They do not work

on viruses, so antibiotics cannot treat viral infections such as colds and flu. Penicillin was the first

antibiotic to be discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming and is still used to treat some sore throats

and pneumonia today. Other examples of antibiotics include amoxicillin for chest infections,

flucloxacillin for skin infections and nitrofurantoin for urine infections.

Antibiotics can be broad spectrum, affecting many different species of bacteria, or narrow spectrum,

affecting only one or two. Antibiotics work by targeting structures unique to bacteria, so they are

not dangerous to human cells and they do not kill viruses. Targets include the bacterial

peptidoglycan cell wall, the ribosome (needed for protein production), DNA replication (needed for

cell division) and metabolic enzyme activity (needed for cell growth).

Bacteria are continually adapting to develop ways of not being killed by antibiotics. This is called

antibiotic resistance. Resistance develops due to a change in the bacterial DNA. These genes for

antibiotic resistance can then spread between different bacteria in our bodies. Antibiotic resistant

bacteria can be carried by healthy or ill people and can spread to others just as other types of

microbes would, for example via hands or by touching surfaces where bacteria are present.

Antibiotic resistance arises due to the overuse and misuse of antibiotics. The more often a person

takes antibiotics, the more likely they are to develop antibiotic resistant bacteria in their body. To

prevent resistance, antibiotics should only be taken as prescribed by a doctor or nurse. The

important points to remember are:

1. Many infections get better on their own, without the need for antibiotics

2. Antibiotics should only be taken for bacterial infections and not viral infections such as colds

and flu, and most coughs, sore throats, ear infections or sinusitis

3. It is important to take antibiotics exactly as instructed (for example three times daily), to

ensure all bacteria within your body are killed and to prevent the development of antibiotic

resistance

4. Antibiotics are personal and prescribed for individuals and for a particular infection. They

should not be shared or taken for a different illness

Background information for Peer Educators


Lesson Plan


Materials required: Student hand out on the three types of microbes and their relative sizes –

available here (Microbe Fact Sheet SH1).

Begin by asking the students if they know three types of microbes that can cause infections –

bacteria, virus and fungi, and explain the relative sizes of the microbes. A student hand-out is

available to help with this explanation. Explain that infections are treated differently depending on

the microbe that has caused it.

Introduce antibiotics – ask who has heard of them and if anyone knows which microbe they affect.

Choose the activity below which best suits the age and ability of your audience.

1a. KS2 Activity (ages 7-11):

Background: This demonstration will help you to show the students the difference in sizes between

the microbes.

Materials required: Balloons, funnel and glitter

Preparation: Using a funnel, pour some glitter inside a balloon and blow the balloon up.

Tell the students that you are now going to use a demonstration to show the sizes of the different

microbes. Explain that microbes are found everywhere but they are too small to be seen with the

naked eye.

1. Ask students which microbe is the largest? Give examples of useful and harmful fungi such as

Penicillium (useful) and athlete’s foot (Harmful).

2. Next ask which the middle size microbes are. Again give examples of useful and harmful

bacteria such as bacteria used in food production, such as yoghurt (useful), and bacteria

which cause chest infections (harmful). Explain that bacteria come in different shapes: rods,

balls or spirals.

3. Tell students to imagine a fungus the size of the room they are in. If a fungus is this big, how

big do they think the bacteria would be? Show the students the balloon – the bacteria would

be about the size of the balloon.

Section 1: Introducing Antibiotics (15-20 mins)

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4. Ask students which microbes are the smallest. Viruses are generally harmful and cause

illnesses like colds and flu.

5. Now ask students how big a virus would be if the balloon represented the size of bacteria.

Pop the balloon and explain that a virus would be the size of a piece of glitter, and that

viruses can only survive inside other living things such as human cells or bacteria. Remind

students that antibiotics only work on bacteria, as bacteria differ to other microbes. This is

why antibiotics cannot be used to treat colds and flu which are caused by viruses.

KS3/4/5 Activity (age 11-18):

Background: Explain that they are now going to look in more detail at the differences between

human cells, bacterial cell and viruses, to try and understand why antibiotics only affect bacteria.

Materials required: Paper, pencils and scissors

Preparation: Research the role of microbe cellular components. Research illnesses causes by viruses

and bacteria, whether you can easily tell the difference, and how you would treat them.

Give the students 3 pieces of paper, one for a bacterium, a virus and a human cell. Ask the students

to work in pairs to fill in the cells with the correct cellular contents (these can be drawn in or cut out

from additional pieces of paper). The cells should contain:

Human cell contains: a nucleus, a mitochondria, a cell membrane (for KS5 also include

ribosome)

Bacterial cell contains: free DNA plasmid (not in nucleus), a cell wall, a cell membrane

Viral cell contains: free DNA (not in nucleus), a protein coat

Ask students if they know the function of the different microbe cellular components?

Explain that antibiotics target structures unique to the bacteria and this is why they do not harm

human cells, and why they do not work on viruses.

Ask the students if they know any illnesses caused by viruses? Is it easy to tell the difference

between bacterial and viral infections? How should viral infections be treated?

It is also important to say that many bacterial infections get better on their own without antibiotics.


Lesson Plan


Materials Required: Antibiotic resistance presentation – available here

Preparation: Research information on MRSA and TB. Information can be found on the Public Health

England, NHS Choices, MRSA Action UK and the Stop TB Partnership websites.

Prepare a short presentation on the discovery of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. The

presentation available on the senior student e-Bug website may be used, or alternatively you can

use a presentation that you have prepared yourself. It is important to make the presentation fun

without too many words and appropriate for the age group you are teaching.

Introduce antibiotic resistance by explaining that bacteria are continually developing ways to avoid

being killed by antibiotics, and that this is known as antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistant

bacteria can be very dangerous as they cannot be treated.

Ask if anyone has heard of MRSA? Describe MRSA and antibiotic resistant TB.

Next, give the students the short presentation on the discovery of antibiotics and antibiotic

resistance.

Now explain that you will show a demonstration to describe antibiotic resistance.

2a. Activity: Demonstrating antibiotic resistance using balloons

Materials required: Balloons, sellotape or parcel tape, pin, glitter

Preparation: Blow up around 4 balloons in one colour and 2 balloons in another colour (yellow and

red are used here to describe the demonstration). Add a strip of sellotape or parcel tape to the end

of the two balloons which are a different colour. Clear parcel tape works the best; if sellotape or

brown parcel tape is used, several layers may be required for the experiment to work. The sellotape

is best placed on the end of the balloon where the balloon is thickest. You could also put glitter in

the balloons before you blow then up, to represent viruses.

Section 2: Antibiotic Resistance (15-20 mins)

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https://www.gov.uk/health-protection/infectious-diseases

https://www.gov.uk/health-protection/infectious-diseases

http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/HomePage.aspx

http://mrsaactionuk.net/index.html

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Explain to the students that the yellow balloons represent bacteria and the red balloon with tape on

represents antibiotic resistant bacteria. The pin represents the antibiotic.

Brown tape is used for demonstration but clear parcel tape is ideal to use as resistant is carried slightly/invisibly in people

who are not ill.

When we give an antibiotic, bacteria are killed or damaged – pop some yellow balloons with the pin.

If you put glitter in the balloon it also demonstrates that viruses are not killed by antibiotics and can

continue to spread. In particular, one group of antibiotics (the penicillins) damage the bacterial cell

wall. However in bacteria that are antibiotic resistant, the cell walls are now not affected by the

antibiotics – put the pin through the sellotape in the red balloons, it will not pop.

This makes it more likely for the resistant bacteria to survive and reproduce. They have a selective

advantage.

Ask if anyone knows where resistance comes from? Explain it is due to a change in the bacterial

DNA/genes that tell the bacteria how to make the cell wall or enzyme.

Explain that bacteria can pass these resistant genes on to other bacteria – put sellotape on a

remaining yellow balloon, which represents the transfer of antibiotic resistance to another

bacterium. This can happen in our body

Bacteria Antibiotic resistant

bacteria

Antibiotic

Bacteria killed

by antibiotic

Antibiotic resistant

bacteria are not

killed by antibiotic


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Resistance is also passed on when bacteria reproduce – demonstrate this by blowing up another red

balloon and putting sellotape on in.

Explain that resistant bacteria can be passed from person to person just as normal bacteria can be.

Ask how these bacteria can spread? The easiest way is via our hands. Examples include direct skin to

skin contact or touching surfaces which may contain bacteria.

The next activity demonstrates how easily resistant bacteria spread.

Antibiotic resistance can

spread to other bacteria

Antibiotic resistance is

passed on when bacteria

reproduce


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2b. Activity: Demonstration of spread of antibiotic resistance using coloured glitter

Background: This activity demonstrates how microbes, including antibiotic resistant bacteria, spread

easily from person to person.

Materials required: Red and gold glitter. Six steps of handwashing handout – available here.

Use red and gold glitter, or ‘dust’, to demonstrate the spread of microbes. Gold glitter represents

bacteria and the red glitter represents the antibiotic resistant bacteria. Remind participants that

microbes are found everywhere and can spread easily through touching surfaces and person-to-

person contact.

Put both gold and red glitter on one or two participants’ hands and ask them to touch various things

around the room and shake hands with other members of the group.

Look at how far the coloured glitter has spread and discuss with the group that bacteria and

antibiotic resistant bacteria both spread very quickly. Remind everyone that antibiotic resistant

bacteria spreads just as easily as any other type of microbe.

Explain to students that washing our hands is the best way to remove microbes from our hands

before they spread to others. We should wash our hands before and after preparing food, after using

the toilet, after touching animals and after coughing or sneezing.

Demonstrate how we should wash our hands properly using the 6 steps of handwashing handout.

Ask the students to wash their hands using the 6 steps to remove the glitter.

For older students, you may wish to use the following activity.

2c. KS3/4/5 Activity (ages 11-18): Antibiotic resistance debate

Materials required: Antibiotic Resistance debate kit – available here

The e-Bug debate kit on antibiotic resistance may be used to help stimulate discussion on the topic.

The debate kit has eight character cards, each with facts about antibiotic resistance and use for the

students to read and questions for discussion. The debate kit has full instructions for how to run the

activity.

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Lesson Plan


To prevent bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics, we should always take antibiotics correctly, as

the doctor or nurse prescribes.

The more often we take antibiotics, the more likely we are to have antibiotic resistant bacteria in our

bodies. Therefore overusing antibiotics may make them less effective.

Ask if anyone knows what we mean by responsible use of antibiotics?

Choose the activity below which best suits the age and ability of your audience.

3a. KS2 Activity (age 7-11): Antibiotic cartoon storyboard

Materials required: Cartoon storyboard– available here (Student Handout 1)

The cartoon storyboards shown in student handout 1 describe how antibiotics should be taken.

Discuss these with the students. The correct ways are:

Only using antibiotics for infections that need them, not for viral infections such as colds and

flu or for mild sore throats, ear ache or skin infections

Antibiotics should never be shared with other people or used on other infections. An

antibiotic given to you by your doctor or nurse is personal to you and to your infection.

Always take antibiotics exactly as prescribed, for examples 3 times a day. If you forget to take

a dose, take it as soon as you remember even if it means taking two at once. Then continue

with the rest of the course.

You should always complete the full course of antibiotics prescribed to, even if you are

feeling better before the end.

Section 3: Taking Antibiotics Correctly (15 mins)

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3b. KS3/4/5 Activity (age 11-18): Antibiotic scenarios

Materials required: Student scenarios– available here (Student Handout2)

For older students, the scenarios in student handout 2 can be used to teach about how to take

antibiotics correctly.

Give each student a copy of the worksheets. The worksheets have three scenarios, which teaches

the group not to take antibiotics for coughs and cold, to take antibiotics as prescribed and not to use

other people’s or left-over antibiotics.

For each scenario, discuss with the students the possible correct and incorrect answers. An answer

sheet is provided to aid discussions.

3c. Activity: Taking the full course of antibiotics

Background: This demonstration is suitable for all ages and will help the students understand why

the full course of antibiotics should be taken.

Materials required: Plastic pipettes, vinegar, phenol red indicator, test tubes and test tube holder

Preparation: Prepare test tubes (enough for two test tubes per group) by filling a third full with water

and adding a drop of phenol red indicator. This will turn the water red. Dilute vinegar in a small bowl

with water (only a few drops of vinegar are required). This will represent the antibiotics. Test the

experiment to see how many drops of vinegar are required to turn the solution in the test tube

yellow. Ideally this should be around 7. Strengthen or dilute the vinegar solution as required. Keep

the yellow solution as a ‘healthy person’ to show the students.

Show the students a test tube containing the yellow solution and explain that it represents a healthy

person’s body with no bacterial infection. The test tube with the red solution represents an ill person

who has a bacterial infection. See ‘Advance preparation’ for details on how to make the solutions.

Say that the doctor has prescribed the ill person a course of 7 days of antibiotics to take (adjust to

your test of the solution). Start to add drops of the dilute vinegar using a pipette and ask the children

to count with you. Halfway through the dosage show the students that some of the solution has

turned yellow – say that this shows that the person is feeling better.



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Then mix the solution with a pipette (it will stay red) and say that even though the person is feeling

better, the solution is still red showing the bacteria are still there, so they must keep taking their

antibiotics until they are completely healthy. Finish adding the dose and mix to make the solution

yellow.

Tell the students that because they finished the whole course of antibiotics, the person is completely

healthy. Explain that if the person didn’t finish the whole course of antibiotics, the bacteria could

have come back stronger.

End by repeating the ways antibiotics should be taken correctly.

For older students, the following activities may be used.

3d. KS3/4/5 Activity (age 11-18): Antibiotics “Right” or “Wrong”?

Materials required: Right or Wrong worksheet – available here (Student Handout 3)

Use the ‘right or wrong’ worksheet provided to learn about how to take antibiotics correctly.

Give each student a copy of the worksheet (student handout 3). The worksheet has 8 statements,

which teaches the students how to take antibiotics correctly. For each statement, discuss with the

group the whether they are right or wrong and reasons why. An answer sheet is provided to aid

discussions.

3e. KS3/4/5 Activity (age 11-18): Managing Your Infection leaflet

Materials required: Managing Your Infection leaflet – available here

Show the students the ‘Managing your Infection’ leaflet, which is designed to be printed as an A5

booklet. Discuss the information in the leaflet, including:

How long common infections usually last

How you can self-care at home

When you should seek further help from a medical professional




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Optional: Extension activity

As an extension, show the students the Antibiotic Guardian video, available at

http://antibioticguardian.com. The clip can be used to stimulate a discussion between the students.

Ask the students to become an Antibiotic Guardian by pledging to use antibiotics responsibly.

Optional: Homework

Ask the students to create a poster promoting the correct use of antibiotics. This can cover any of

the topics they have learnt in the lesson.

Ask the students to take the Managing Your Infection leaflet home to discuss with their family.

This lesson plan was written by Dr Vicki Young and the activities in Section 1 and 2 were devised by

Dr Carwyn Watkins

Acknowledgements

http://antibioticguardian.com/


Student Handout 1


Go home and get some bed rest, take some

painkillers for the headache if you need to.

But she’s ill, you have to give her some

antibiotics.

I’m sorry, but there’s no need.

When Amy got home, her mother decided to take her to the doctor. He said that she had a bad cold.

You weren’t in school today,

are you OK?

No, my knee started to get really painful in the night so my

Mum took me to see the doctor. He said that my cut got

infected.

Oh no, did he give you painkillers?

No, he gave me antibiotics to help fight the infection but told me to take them until

they were all finished.

Harry didn’t come to school the next day so Amy called around to see him on her way home from school.

It really hurts and I think

I’m getting a cough.

Don’t you have any antibiotics

at home you can take?

That’s a good idea. We still have some from when my

sister had an ear infection. I’ll ask my mum.

During lunch Amy was talking to her friend Harry about her headache and runny nose.


Student Handout 2


Scenario 1: Ash had a runny nose and really sore throat so he went to the

doctor.

Antibiotic Scenarios

Ash: But I’m really ill. Surely antibiotics will help?

Doctor: A runny nose isn’t helped by antibiotics. Go home and go to bed, take some pain killers

for your sore throat.

Doctor: I know sore throats can make you feel really ill and they can last a week. The

pharmacist will be able to give you something for your pain.

Ash: What if I get really bad?

DISCUSSION

Discuss whether you agree or disagree with Ash going to the pharmacy?

Discuss what you think Ash might be worried about?


Student Handout 2



DISCUSSION

Discuss whether you agree or disagree with Anna?

Discuss what you think Alisha should do with her leftover

antibiotics?

Scenario 2: Alisha is talking to her friend Anna about her urine infection. Alisha has been prescribed antibiotics by her doctor.

Anna: Why don’t you just take them, it will make sure you get rid of all the

infection.

Alisha: I’ve been given antibiotics for my urine infection. The doctor told me to take

them for 3 days, morning and evening. After 3 days I’ve still got some left, what shall I do

with the ones left over now I feel better?


Student Handout 2


What should Chloe say? Discuss the correct and incorrect options.

Statement Correct Incorrect

Gosh no, I shouldn’t take anyone else’s antibiotics.

Great idea – we have some left-over from when my sister had an ear infection.

Yes I had a cough a few weeks ago and went to the out of hours and they gave me a prescription, but I didn’t bother to cash it in. I’ll do it now!

I don’t have any antibiotics in the cupboard – don’t you always take them back to the chemist?

I’ve never had any antibiotics – so we don’t have any in the cupboard.

I had a water infection last month. I’ll use the left-over antibiotics from them.

I shouldn’t take antibiotics that are left over.

I don’t have any at home, but I’ll ask Josie, she is always at the doctor with her coughs.

I only take antibiotics if the doctor prescribes them.

I think I should just take some pain relief and go to bed.


Scenario 3: Chloe was talking to her friend Jamie about her headache and cough.

Jamie: Don’t you have any

antibiotics in a cupboard at

home you could take?

Chloe: My headache really hurts and I have

a bad cough


Educator Handout 2


Scenario 1

Amy had a runny nose and really sore throat so she went to the doctor

Discussion points:

Many infections get better on their own without the need for antibiotics.

Antibiotics won’t make a difference to how long your symptoms/illness/infection lasts.

All runny noses are caused by viruses which antibiotics do not work on – so there is no point

having an antibiotic.

If you become ill very quickly, have a really red throat or pus on your tonsils with high

temperature and no cough or runny nose, you are more likely to benefit from antibiotics.

Scenario 2

Alisha has a urine infection and has been prescribed antibiotics by her doctor

Discussion points:

Correct options:-

Do what the doctor says and take them for the 3 days.

Take the left-overs back to the chemist (do not flush antibiotics down the toilet otherwise

antibiotics get into the water system).

If you take more days, your bugs are more likely to become resistant, and the antibiotics are

less likely to kill the bacteria the next time you need them.

Don’t take any extras as that will kill more of your useful bugs in your gut too.

Incorrect options if needed:-

Keep the rest for next time.

Stop taking them now. What’s the point in taking them if you are feeling better?

Take the whole pack and then you’ll definitely kill the bugs.

Antibiotic Scenarios – answer sheet


Educator Handout 2


Scenario 3

Chloe was talking to her friend Jamie about her headache and cough

Correct Incorrect

Gosh no, I shouldn’t take anyone else’s antibiotics.

Great idea – we have some left-over from when my sister had an ear infection.

Yes I had a cough a few weeks ago and went to the out of hours and they gave me a prescription, but I didn’t bother to cash it in. I’ll do it now!

I don’t have any antibiotics in the cupboard – don’t you always take them back to the chemist?

I’ve never had any antibiotics – so we don’t have any in the cupboard.

I had a water infection last month. I’ll use the left-over antibiotics from them.

I shouldn’t take antibiotics that are left over.

I don’t have any at home, but I’ll ask Josie, she is always at the doctor with her coughs.

I only take antibiotics if the doctor prescribes them.

I think I should just take some pain relief and go to bed.

Discussion points:

If you have taken an antibiotic in the last 6 months a bacterial infection is twice as likely to be

antibiotic resistant

Repeated courses of antibiotics are associated with a greater risk of antibiotic resistant

bacteria

Antibiotics are specific for each infection, for example an antibiotic for a sore throat will not

work for a urine infection and vice versa, so you should never share others antibiotics or left-

overs

Pain relief such as paracetamol help cold, flu, sore throat and ear-ache symptoms and help

bring down a temperature

The dose of antibiotic is specifically chosen for each infection, so that the antibiotic reaches

the infection and kills the bacteria


Student Handout 3


Discuss: Which of these statements are right or wrong?

Antibiotics Right or Wrong?

My doctor told me to

take my antibiotics for

5 days so that is what I

did.

He was coughing and

sneezing everywhere.

You would have thought

the doctor would have

given him antibiotics!

When my friend was ill,

I gave her my old

antibiotics. I like

helping my friends.

Antibiotics don’t help

coughs and colds; you

just need bed rest, lots

of fluids and eat

healthily.

All drugs are bad for

you. I can’t see the

point in taking

antibiotics.

My doctor gave me

antibiotics to take for 10

days but I feel better

after 3 days so I’m going

to stop taking them.

My headache and flu

symptoms are really

getting me down. I

think I need antibiotics!

I don’t take antibiotics

unless I really need

them as they might not

work in the future.

1 2

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5 6

7 8


Educator Handout 3


Statement Right or Wrong

Reason

He was coughing and sneezing everywhere. You would have thought the doctor would have given him antibiotics!

Wrong Most common infections will get better by themselves through time, bed rest, liquid intake and healthy living. Antibiotics do not work on viruses.

My doctor told me to take my antibiotics for 5 days so that is what I did.

Right Take antibiotics exactly as given by your doctor or nurse.

When my friend was ill, I gave her my old antibiotics. I like helping my friends.

Wrong You must not use other people’s or any leftover antibiotics.

Antibiotics don’t help coughs and colds; you just need bed rest, lots of fluids and eat healthy.

Right Most common infections will get better by themselves through time, bed rest, liquid intake and healthy living. Antibiotics do not work on viruses.

All drugs are bad for you. I can’t see the point in taking antibiotics.

Wrong Antibiotics can help severe infections such as meningitis, pneumonia or kidney/urine infections.

My doctor gave me antibiotics to take for 10 days but I feel better after 3 days so I’m going to stop taking them.

Wrong Take antibiotics exactly as given by your doctor or nurse. Even if you feel better after 3 days you might still have the infection.

My headache and flu symptoms are really getting me down. I think I need antibiotics!

Wrong Most common infections like flu will get better by themselves through time, bed rest, liquid intake and healthy living. Antibiotics do not work on headaches you get with colds and flu or viruses.

I don’t take antibiotics unless I really need them as they might not work in the future.

Right If you over use antibiotics they might not work when you really need them for a severe infection.

Antibiotics Right or Wrong– answer sheet

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