antibiotic

But at Christus St. Elizabeth, the OB-GYN just continued antibiotic care.

Jo Broughton, 44, has not been swimming there since finding out, concerned about developing antibiotic resistance and the risk to her health.

“Antibiotic misuse and overuse largely relates to a lack of understanding, a lack of support,” says Marc Mendelson, the director of the Trinity Challenge, who also heads the infectious diseases division at the University of Cape Town’s hospital.

Maisie was given an antibiotic, but according to Mr Mailey it provides little relief and "when she is eating you can definitely see that it is upsetting her".

This isn’t necessarily good for us, though: antibiotic resistance has become a massive problem in large part due to horizontal transfer of genes from drug-resistant species into bacteria species that were once routinely killed by medications.