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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016 VOLUME 01 EDITION 20
NEWS FOR CHILDREN 7-12 YEARS OLD
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Cambodia wants to fight the spread of “Super-bacteria”!
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Last week, the Government of Cambodia started a campaign on the dangers of improper use of
antibiotics. It is spreading important messages through the radio, TV channels and Facebook
saying that if we take antibiotics the wrong way we are helping the creation of “super-bacteria”
which are so strong that we cannot fight them. The government wants everyone to know this
urgently, because if we do not change our way of using antibiotics soon, many people will die
from diseases caused by these super-bacteria.
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What is antibiotic resistance?
True. Hand washing is the most important thing we can do to prevent the spread of infection. Super-bacteria can spread from person to person through skin to skin contact and by touching surfaces where bacteria are present.
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1. Mom: Chantha? Did you take your antibiotic for your leg? Chantha: No mom, not yet. 2. Mom: Well don’t forget it. Chantha: My cut is fine now. It doesn’t hurt anymore. 3. Mom: The doctor said it had to be taken for 5 days, so you should still be taking it. Chantha: Yeah yeah. 4. Dara: Aren’t you going to drink that? Chantha: Urg, no. This medicine is gross. When I was little medicine used to taste like candy. Now it tastes like dirt. 5. Thea: Hey Chantha, you’re supposed to put both legs there. Chantha: I can’t use my other leg, it’s too painful. 6. Thea: Still today? Oh look, it’s really red. You should ask your mom to see your doctor again. Chantha: OUCH! 7. Doctor: the infection has got worse. We are going to have to cut your leg off. 8. Chantha: WHAT?? Doctor: Just joking. But not taking your antibiotics properly can be very serious. Even worse than cutting a leg off. 9. Doctor: Well, if the pain in your leg didn’t help you learn your lesson, then another week of stronger and yuckier antibiotics should!
Difficult words
True or False?
Game
Comic In focus
Campaign: យទធនាការឃោសនា - a series of activities designed
to produce a particular result.
Prescribe: ឃេញឃេជជបញជ - to officially tell someone to use a
medicine or therapy as a remedy or treatment.
Advance: ភាពរកេឃរើន - progress in the development or
improvement of something.
Misuse: ការឃបើរាសខស the act of using something in an
improper way : េធរនរររេ incorrect use.
Resistance: ភាពធន the ability to prevent something from
having an effect.
The advice from the Government of Cambodia to all of us!
Answer to last week’s game:Polar bears!
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Find the words from the list in the grid and color them. When you’re done, you will see all the letters needed to complete mom’s sentence.
Antibiotics are a kind of medicine. Your doctor may prescribe them to you so that you get better when you are sick. They are very powerful and can destroy bacteria, the germs that are responsible for some important illnesses. The discovery of antibiotics in 1928 in England has been one of the major advances in modern medicine. Since their discovery, people have been living on average 10 years longer than before!
Antibiotics were such a great discovery that people like to think that they are the answer to all illnesses. In Cambodia, we can buy antibiotics in any pharmacy even without a prescription from our doctor, so it is very easy to get them. This has led to the misuse of antibiotics.
So why can’t we always take antibiotics? This is because antibiotics only fight bacteria. But when we get sick, it is not always because of bacteria. It can also be because of another type of germ, such as a virus or a fungus. Antibiotics can kill bacteria, but they are completely powerless to do anything against other types of germs. When you have a cold or the flu, for example, even if it is a serious case with high fever, taking antibiotics will not help, because these two illnesses are caused by a virus.
It isn’t just humans who are taking too many antibiotics – animals are too! As much as 80 percent of the antibiotics in the world are used to treat animals that we eat for food. The antibiotics are given in small doses, to prevent diseases. But that makes it easy for the bacteria to develop resistance. This antibiotic-resistant super-bacteria can easily jump from the meat to humans.
Hand washing is the most effective way to reduce the spread of super-bacteria.
Not only will it not help, it is also very dangerous. After a while, some bacteria learn to change a little bit, so that they are harder to kill. This is called antibiotic resistance.These resistant super-bacteria multiply and new diseases start to appear that can no longer be treated by antibiotics. This is already happening for a very serious disease called tuberculosis. Scientists have not yet found an antibiotic to cure the super-bacteria causing one form of tuberculosis. This could happen with many other diseases, if people continue to use antibiotics in the wrong way.
Antibiotics are a very useful drug. But to make sure that they continue to help us to recover, it is important to use them exactly how the doctor told us: the exact dose and the exact duration.
Antibiotics knock down bacteria, not viruses
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Chantha won’t take her antibiotics
Find the answers in next week’s Kids Weekly!
ចានថា? មានឃេបថានា សមាលា បឃរឃោគសមាបឃជើងកនឃ�ើយឃៅ?
អទានឃទមាាក។
អញរង កឃលាេឃោយឃោះណា។
ឃជើងញរានធរឃ�ើយ។មានឈឃទៀណាមាាក!
គរឃពទយរាននយាយថា កនរេឃេបថានា ឃនះឃោយរាន៥ថងៃឃទៀ។ អញរងកនរេត
ឃេបថានា ឃនះណា។
ចា!ចា!
បងរនឃេបថានា តរន?
រេឃ�ើយ!ថានា ឃនះគរឃោយឃខពើរណាស។
កាេញឃៅឃកមេង ថានា ឆងៃ ញដេសករាបអញរង។ថានា ឥេេរសជាេងដេបមា
ដអញរង។
ចានថា! កតនលាង�នារងឯងរេដាកឃជើងទាងសងខាងឃទើបរាន។
ញដាកឃជើងរយឃទៀអរានឃទ។រកពវាឈឃពក។
ដេថងៃ�នារងឃ�ើយឃៅឈឃទៀ?អយ ឃរើេឃៅឃជើង
ឃ�ើងក�រតរនតទន។ឯងគរតឃោយមាាកឯង
នាឃៅជបឃពទយរដងឃទៀឃៅ។ អយ!
ឃជើងឃនះឆលាងឃរឃោគកានតធងៃនធងៃរជាងរនឃ�ើយ។ពកឃយើងនរងរេកាឃជើងកមេមយឃចាេឃ�ើយឃទើបរាន។ ថាយាាងឃរាេ??
នយាយឃេងឃទ។ បាតនតែឃបើកមេមយរនញថានា តារការកណឃទ ឃជើងកមេមយនរងឃៅជាធងៃនធងៃរតរនតទន។ឃ�ើយវានរងធងៃនធងៃរជាងរេកាឃជើងឃចាេឃៅឃទៀ។
ឃបើឃជើងឈបាណរងឃ�ើយឃៅតរនឃរៀងឃទៀោទយឃកាយ ពនរងរេឃោយថានា
សមាលា បឃរឃោគណាតដេគរឃោយឃខពើរជាងរនឃទៀឃៅឃោយកមេមយឃេបឃពញរយោទយ
តរដង។
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Scientists were worried that a species of wild cat, called fishing cats, had disappeared in Cambodia. They had not seen this endangered species for 12 years! However, Cambodian conservationists recently found three fishing cats, with photographs and films taken from cameras hidden in trees!
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Parents’ bulletin
Parents’ toolbox
Having sick children isn’t fun, for anyone. Many parents feel their chil-dren’s pain and go to the doctors in the hope for a quick efficient treatment, so life can go back to normal. It is understandable that parents are disap-pointed when all they get prescribed is a box of painkillers and advice to wait it out.
We would all love antibiotics to be the miracle drug! Unfortunately, they actu-ally have a limited scope. When germs are exposed to an antibiotic to which there are not sensitive, not only do the germs continue their destructive activ-ity, but in addition, the bacteria acquire a memory and mutate to become even stronger.
This is what is called antibiotic resist-ance. In Cambodia, there is a strong tendency for self-medication. Antibiot-ics can be purchased over the counter, antibiotics from previous prescriptions are often re-used and taken as long as the patient think is appropriate. Doctors are also sometimes at fault, prescrib-ing antibiotics even when they are not needed, to save time and effort during consultations. Add the expectation of
parents who are waiting for the mira-cle drug, and what you get is a quickly drafted prescription for antibiotics. In the meantime, bacteria are getting smarter, they remember, they adapt. We are look-ing at a worrying revenge from resistant bacteria: some strands of gonorrhea and tuberculosis are untreatable with the antibiotics that exist today.Of couse, children can need antibiotics in the case of a cold, if symptoms persist or get worse. But in general, if we expose them to antibiotics, not only will they not change the course of the cold, but in ad-dition, there is an important risk for side effects such as diarrhea, allergies, as well as a super-resistant bacteria. What these children need most of all are rest, plenty of water, pain relievers, parents who keep calm and trust their doctors, and doctors who do their jobs.
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Do your children really need antibiotics?
The war against super-bacteria is not yet lost. But we all need to be smarter than the bacteria!
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Thanks Adam! You both look pretty happy to be playing!
Dear Cheng, Thanks for your drawing, your monkeys look very cool, clever and cute!
Here are the best things we can do as parents:
- Preventing common illnesses: hand washing, vaccination, breastfeeding infants and not smoking;
- Asking our doctor why she/he is prescribing antibiotics to our children. Is there really a bacterial infection?
- Never buying antibiotics without a prescription;
- When being given antibiotics, follow-ing doses and duration scrupulously.
Dear Kids Weekly,I come back from school break and I read about the Gibbons in Angkor Wat. I love monkeys so much because they are cool, clever and cute. They always help eachother.Lorn Dara Soucheng, 10 years old
