Injection (medicine)

Have you ever scratched your skin and it hurt a lot? Well, sometimes, when we are feeling sick, we need to take medicine to make us feel better. But if the medicine is too big or too yucky to swallow, the doctor might give it to us with a special needle called an injection.

An injection is like a tiny straw that has medicine inside of it. The doctor puts the needle into our skin, and then they push the medicine out of the straw and into our body. Usually, the needle goes into our arm or leg or tummy, where there are lots of tiny blood vessels that can carry the medicine all around our body.

Don't worry, the needle is so tiny that it might hurt for just a second, but then it will be over. And once the medicine is inside our body, it can start working right away to make us feel better. It's like a superhero with special powers that come to fight the evil germs in our body and make them go away.

So the next time the doctor says you need an injection, don't be scared - just think of it like a magic straw that can make you feel better!