Shalise Tansey
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545 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Shalise Tansey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I had thought as you grow older, you'd have resistance to some of these antibiotics by taking them so regularly, but I didn't realise it could cause things like obesity.
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Do we know why antibiotics could cause these things?
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When we're prescribing antibiotics to young children, does this leave them, like how vulnerable does that leave them as an adult to more, to getting more illnesses and diseases and infections and things like that?
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As a young child, you pick up these diseases and I guess that helps build up their immune system to be able to fight these diseases when they are older.
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Is an overuse of antibiotics having any effect on that?
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also part of the research that had been done was that Māori and Pasifika are also part of the group that are often prescribed antibiotics.
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Why is use amongst Māori and Pasifika a lot higher than, say, Pākehā or Asian or other ethnicity groups?
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If we take the case of rheumatic fever, as someone who is Māori, if I go to the doctor and I say that I have a sore throat, I'm throat swabbed and I'm given a round of amoxicillin, a 10-day course.
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Yes.
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Is it a bit preemptive to be giving that 10-day course and saying start it instantly if they don't have rheumatic fever?
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Is there any danger in that?
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A common concern about taking too many antibiotics is a build-up of resistance to the medication and the resulting superbugs.
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But Mark says there's a general misconception around how that resistance develops.
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He explains that antibiotic resistance is not a change in an individual person's body, but a change to the bacteria itself.
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Will that make fighting diseases like pneumonia or meningitis harder to fight if we have all this resistance within the population health?
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pretty much
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Overuse of antibiotics, this has been an issue now by the sounds of it for a while.
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Have there been any preventative measures or steps taken to try and stop us from over-prescribing antibiotics?
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And there's a lot being done to reduce antibiotic use here.
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A final word today from Mark.
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