Shalise Tansey
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10 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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Kia ora, I'm Chalice Tansey and today on The Detail, a marker where New Zealand has been ranked fourth in the OECD, but it's not a cause for celebration.
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A new study from Massey University and the University of Otago has found that we're one of the highest users of antibiotics, with nearly all children born between 2005 and 2010 dispensed antibiotics at some point.
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The study found that 96% of children and around 30% of pregnant women were given at least one round of antibiotics, and by the time the median child turned five, they'd received seven rounds.
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And this comes only a month and a half after another global study found that we're taking too many antibiotics, using them for illnesses that they don't even treat, and risking antibiotic resistance.
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This is Felix Walton from RNZ Checkpoint, talking to infectious disease specialist Dr Steve Ritchie.
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And this risks the growth of superbugs.
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But that's not the only risk of overuse.
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And children aren't the only ones taking them too often.
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Today I'm speaking with Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Auckland, Mark Thomas, for a crash course on how New Zealand is at higher risk of superbugs than many other countries, and the other surprising risks of long-term antibiotic use.
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For the past decade, Mark's main research has been measuring and describing the way antibiotics are dispensed to the community in New Zealand.
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I've asked him to start off by explaining what antibiotics work for and what they don't.
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Is that why sometimes when people go to the doctors and they have a cold and they ask, is there anything that you can give me, they just say rest and fluids because the antibiotics wouldn't do anything?
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So what is the most common antibiotic or some of the most common antibiotics that are usually prescribed?
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And some of those drugs are regularly being prescribed to children.
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So why is antibiotic use in children so high, and what are the long-term effects?
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He says that there's sometimes a pressure on doctors to fix the problem, especially when parents take time off work and wait to be seen, only to be told their kid needs rest and fluids and there's no quick fix in the form of medicine.
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I don't have children myself, and I do understand if parents are wanting to be given something to give to their child to make them feel better.
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But what are the long-term effects of giving children these antibiotics when they actually don't work or don't need them?
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up.
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That's really fascinating.
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