Texto para a questão

ASK THE NURSE

Nurse Anthea answers your questions. This week’s topic is bacteria.

Question - “I’m worried about my baby. She is crawling around on the floor and putting all sorts of things into her mouth.”

Nurse Anthea - Don’t worry. Children who live in spotlessly clean houses do not have much exposure to bacteria, so their immune systems don’t get the practice of fighting bacteria. Research shows that children living in houses that are not spotlessly clean, who have contact with animals and faecal matter, get fewer illnesses than children living in spotless homes.And there’s evidence that children who live with pets get fewer allergies.

Question - Is there a cure for MRSA (methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus)?

Nurse Anthea - There’s an antibiotic called Vancomycin. This is our last weapon against MRSA, but in time it will be useless too. One type of Staphylococcus aureus is now resistant to Vancomycin – so it is VRSA- Vancomycin resistant. There is a possibility of a bacterium which will be resistant to all antibiotics.

We have been winning the war against bacteria for about fifty years, but soon bacteria will make a comeback and we will be where we were in the nineteenth century – with no protection from bacteria.

Texto para a questão

ASK THE NURSE

Nurse Anthea answers your questions. This week’s topic is bacteria.

Question - “I’m worried about my baby. She is crawling around on the floor and putting all sorts of things into her mouth.”

Nurse Anthea - Don’t worry. Children who live in spotlessly clean houses do not have much exposure to bacteria, so their immune systems don’t get the practice of fighting bacteria. Research shows that children living in houses that are not spotlessly clean, who have contact with animals and faecal matter, get fewer illnesses than children living in spotless homes.And there’s evidence that children who live with pets get fewer allergies.

Question - Is there a cure for MRSA (methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus)?

Nurse Anthea - There’s an antibiotic called Vancomycin. This is our last weapon against MRSA, but in time it will be useless too. One type of Staphylococcus aureus is now resistant to Vancomycin – so it is VRSA- Vancomycin resistant. There is a possibility of a bacterium which will be resistant to all antibiotics.

We have been winning the war against bacteria for about fifty years, but soon bacteria will make a comeback and we will be where we were in the nineteenth century – with no protection from bacteria.

The postings below were taken from an online forum on social isolation and digital technology, according to the american life studies.

Participant

 Bob

Livingstone

Posting

Is the quality of the technological communication as rich or fulfilling as face to face discussion? Is there any discussion about the differences between the two? So, we’re left with the facts that social isolation has increased greatly in the last 20 years and that a huge drop in neighbor relations is perhaps the leading reason for this trend. In addition, people spend a great deal more time consuming digital technology than they did decades ago. We can let the researchers quibble over whether technology has caused the social isolation problem.

Participant

Michael

Wood-Lewis

Posting

Personally, I see current digital technologies as contributing to the death of our neighborhoods. Our children are growing up in neighborhoods that are far less socially active than they were decades ago. Neighbor relations are absolutely crucial for children, I would argue, because only in their neighborhoods might parents be willing to afford their children some measure of autonomy. If we agree that we should place special value on neighborhood relations, as opposed to social relations in general, the results from all these studies are quite troubling.

Participant

Po Bronson

Posting

Lots of my friends have social media networks or listservs for their immediate neighborhood. (I wish I did, will work on it.) Wouldn’t it help for social network technology to unite families in neighborhoods, to bring them together? Can you recommend sites that help to get a neighborhood talking again?

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