Currently, there is no treatment that can get rid of the poliovirus. Antibiotics or other medications are not effective because this disease is a virus, like the common cold is. Even though there is no cure, most people recover from polio without any long term effects. Medicine that can be taken usually are used to stop the symptoms like ibuprofen for headaches. Children still can, though, get the vaccination called IPV which is a shot that prepares the body to fight of the disease. Almost all the people who get the vaccine are protected from polio.