Antibiograms links to local antibiograms by city and laboratory. The curriculum below is available free of charge to teachers and other educators. It is for all children that solutions to antibiotic resistance must be found. The paint provides a visual cue about whether handwashing has been done properly.
Expect doctors, dentists, nurses and therapists to wash their hands before they examine you or your child. Make sure that childcare sites have places for adults and children. Both bacteria and viruses cause infections but antibiotics only work against bacteria. These materials are provided freeofcharge to bc residents. Sign up for the nature briefing newsletter what matters in science, free to your inbox daily. Recommended empiric therapy of selected dental infections. This project attempts to address solutions to antibiotic resistance by promoting three key messages.
As before, the work that has gone into this book is dedicated to our children. Dry cleaning is also effective to get rid of bed bugs. Antibiotic resistance is a problem therefore antibiotics must be used wisely. Do bugs need drugs program history and structure do bugs need drugs is an antimicrobial stewardship program that emphasizes public education and working with communitybased health care professionals. Feb 03, 2020 dry them in a dryer on the hot setting for at least 20 minutes. You do not need to treat everything that you find differentiate colonization from true pathogens eg.
Small objects should be used only with adult supervision. Using insects to test for drug safety sciencedaily. Dbnd program is a multifaceted public and health care professional education program geared towards decreasing antibiotic overuse and misuse and the spread of resistant organisms. Exposure to selected communicable diseases during pregnancy. This book is a comprehensive evidencebased reference for the appropriate use of antibiotics and optimal treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.
Page content all do bugs need drugs resoruces are published on the do bugs need drugs website. All training materials below are available for free download. Handwashing, stopping the spread of infections, bug bingo, large print crossword and word search for adults in communal living settings nonenglish materials listing of resources in arabic, chinese simplified, chinese traditional, french, korean, persian, punjabi, somali, spanish, tagalog, tigrinya, urdu and vietnamese. Handwashing is the most important way to stop the spread of infections. Bacteria and viruses are different and antibi otics do not work against viruses. Students will have paint on their hands from the handprint mural and should strive to wash all the paint off. This page collects free to use education and training materials targeted towards civil. The us department of justice coined it formication. Feb 21, 2017 even though spiders are technically not insects, weve done experiments on them using psychoactive drugs. Download app web links antibiotic stewardship do bugs need drugs. Make sure soap is available in the washroom of your childs school and your workplace. These are familiar activities with a focus specifically on the do bugs need drugs. Witt started his research on the effect of drugs on spiders.
Bugs and drugs antimicrobial guide british columbia. All materials for the program available at no cost online or as a free app. During their amazing twelve months at vfs students are provided the opportunity to give back as they near the mid point of their year. Several factors contribute to cost containment, including reliance on partner organizations for program delivery and economies of scale associated with implementation of do bugs need drugs programs in both alberta and british columbia. The overall purpose of this funding opportunity announcement foa is to stimulate the development of novel microbialbased cancer therapies, especially for conditions where conventional cancer therapies are inadequate, such as poorly vascularized, hypoxic, solid tumors, dormant or slowly dividing cells resistant to current interventions, and brain tumors. Number of sessions per week on the do bugs need website between. Do bugs need drugs is a community program for the wise use of antibiotics, including information. Insecticide sprays are used to get rid of bed bugs. This may include a landlord, hotel manager, or pest control company. Community education programs 6 august 9, 2016 education and resources about principles of antimicrobial stewardship including hand and surface hygiene, viral and bacterial infections and using antimicrobials appropriately. A canadian program for wise use of antibiotics with resources for aiding health care professionals as well as for. Bugs and drugs staphylococcus gram positive cocci in clusters staph aureus general syndromes.
Antimicrobial stewardship in long term care resources to assist with antimicrobial stewardship programs in long term care including a checklist for clinical assessment and management and clinical practice guideline. Clinical practice guidelines from towards optimized practice alberta. Interactive dialogue with bugsy hand puppet 15 min resource book 5 minutes germs make me sick berger,melvin and marilyn hafner. Ask questions, allow students to participate with answers and then sum up. If more than one person in your family has the same illness, odds are it is a viral. Sep 09, 2009 insects, such as some moths and fruit flies, react to microbial infection in the same way as mammals and so can be used to test the efficiency of new drugs, thereby reducing the need for animal. Sometimes they do, but why not avoid the problem in the first place with good hand washing habits, the best way to avoid the spread of infections. Do bugs need drugs how to wash your hands duration. Alberta health services provincial health services a community health promotion program that supports handwashing, preventing infections and wise use of antibiotics.
Activity 1 4 june 2012 activity 1 do bugs need drugs. Use antibiotics wisely to stop bacteria from becoming resistant to antibiotics. Print material request form please complete the order form and email, fax, or mail to. Teachers k gr 3 alberta curriculum lesson plans and activities about hand hygiene, spread of germs, bacteria, viruses, infections, medications authorized by alberta education teachers k gr 3 british columbia curriculum lesson plans and activities about hand hygiene, spread of germs, bacteria, viruses, infections and medications adapted to the british columbia curriculum school. Though bed bugs will opportunistically feed on pets, they do not live or travel on the skin of their hosts, and pets are. The current article presents a descriptive evaluation of the impact of the program over the first four years. The do bugs need drugs website is bilingual and some print materials are. The cost of delivering do bugs need drugs provincially in alberta is about five cents per albertan per year. Post the how to wash your hands poster and twinkle, twinkle poster in the washroom in advance. The bugsy puppet can be used to deliver some of the message or the discussion can be led entirely by the instructors.
The tactile and visual hallucination of crank bugs also called meth bugs, meth mites, ice bugs, or ice mites, has a scientific explanation. If you are in an emergency situation, this toll free, 24hour hotline can help you get through this difficult time. Vfs has had the privilege of working with some amazing local organizations and causes of the past year and we were especially pleased when we had the opportunity to team up with the do bugs need drugs group out at ubc. Paul martiquet is the medical health officer for rural vancouver coastal health including powell river, the sunshine coast, seatosky, bella bella and bella coola. The dbnd program was initially implemented in british columbia bc in the fall of 2005, following the success of the program in alberta. We also have step by step guides on what to do to help yourself, a friend or a family member. The bugsy puppet can be used to deliver some of the message or the. The aptly named do bugs need drugs dbnd program provides. While presented with several challenges along the way, the grads worked tirelessly and professionally, consulting with us, until the ads were. One side effect of meth is a rise in body temperature which leads to increased sweating. Your playful presence and your thoughtful commentsquestions will ensure that the learning objectives are met. Assistance with identifying and removing barriers to proper handwashing in the workplace. Oct 04, 2011 during the past 10 to 20 years, we have seen new classes of drugs that attack different parts of the bacteria and are advertised to be more effective, but the field is moving toward the realization that antimicrobial resistance is a major concern because we are producing superbugs, he says. The release of this 2001 edition coincides with the launch of the do bugs need drugs.
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