Antiviral MedicationBy: Elizabeth Devin and Brittany Vereen

What is antiviral med.?

Antiviral medication is medication for viruses for example, fighting bacteria.

Antiviral medication does not cure the sickness but instead inhibits their development.

“There are a few antiviral medicines available. Vaccines can help prevent you from getting many viral diseases.”

“The “perfect “ drug is typically required to satisfy these three points: i) it must be safe; ii) it must be effective in treating the specific disease for which it was designed; iii) it can be manufactory in a clean and reproducible process. At the end of the four phases of the clinical development the drug is finally ready to be safely used by the patients.”

How do you give antivirus medicine?

Antivirus medicine can be given in different ways.

You can give them through a pill or shot form

The most common way to give the drug is through a pill form.

Some important antivirus drugs:

Tamiflu- used to help cure the flu virus.

Atripla- used to help with HIV

Valtrex- used to help with the shingles virus

Oseltamivir or Zanamivir- helps fight off the H1N1 virus (swine flu)

Telaprevir- treatment for hepatitis C

Zovirax- treatment for the chicken pox

(picture of the H1N1 virus)

Why do we use these drugs?

We need these drugs to rid our bodies of diseases.

If we didn’t have these drugs, many people would die every year from sickness.

“There's no medication to cure the flu, or any other viral infection. But antiviral drugs can shorten the duration and stop the virus from replicating — helping you to get well sooner.”- Diana Rodriguez

Picture of the virus herpes

Pictures of antivirus drugs:

Tamiflu: used for the flu

Truvada: used to treat HIV

Gardasil- used to prevent 4 types of HPV in girls

TDAP vaccine- Tetunus, pertusis, and diphtheria all in one

What if you don’t want to take the medicine, what will happen?

What would happen to you is that you would remain sick, and just get sicker and sicker.

Some people get so sick that they would die because of the sickness.

If you are sick, and you show symptoms of a virus, go to your doctor and seek help.

How does antiviral medication and chemistry relate to one another?

Without chemistry, medication would never be made to treat viruses.

Chemist and biologists work together to come up with different treatment options

Chemists make changes to molecules to interact appropriately with the body

To make sure the chemists did everything right, they use clinical trials and animal testing to see if the medicine is right

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Review:

Antiviral medication is medication for viruses, for example fighting bacteria

Tamiflu is made to help fight the flu

This medication does not cure the sickness, but it helps fight it off

The medicine can be taken in pill form or through a shot

If you don’t go to the doctor and get put on medicine, you will remain sick

Animal testing and clinical trials are done to see with the medicine works and is safe.

Quiz:

1.) What is the most common way to give antiviral medicine?

A. Pill C. Skin lubricant

B. Shot D. None of these

2.) What was the drug that helped with H1N1?

A. Zovirax C. Zanamivir

B. Oseltamivir D. Both B and C

3.) What is antiviral medication used for?

A. Stomach bug C. Viruses

B. Fever D. None of these

4.) What is testing done on?

A. Animals C. Plants

B. Clinical trials D. A & B

5.) What do chemists do? _______________________

Works Cited: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/viralinfections.html

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/frequently_asked_questions/antivirals/en/

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http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/chemhealth/med.htm

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/themes/treatments/medicines.aspx