There's more out there suggesting that antibiotics may shorten the duration of strep by maybe a day.ĭr. Madsen: That's a great question and it's probably subject to a little bit of controversy. Interview: And what would be the difference between recovery time not treated and antibiotics?ĭr. It can cause kidney issues, heart issues, and those are rare things, but they do happen in people who do not have strep treated. That can be something that happens after strep. I mean they're rare, but the concern with strep is if it's untreated it can lead to things. Is there anything other than the discomfort that could come up strep throat that if I didn't take care of quickly enough?ĭr. I mean typically, yup, you're going to be on antibiotics for that and usually about a week of antibiotics. And antibiotics, is that the only form of treatment?ĭr. But your doctor very well may opt to just do a throat culture to confirm what they already think. We know what the answer is." It's not wrong to just do that and then treat with antibiotics. So it's really not wrong for a physician even to just examine you and say, "Hey, you meet all four of these criteria. And, like I mentioned, if you meet four of those four criteria for those symptoms, odds are 60-70 percent. It's that test that comes back, you do the swab, it comes back within an hour, sometimes faster, yes or no on strep, that's only going to pick up strep 70-80 percent of the time. But it's funny if you look at throat cultures, so we have what's called the rapid strep. Interview: So if you have all those symptoms, then you should go to see your doctor and they're going to do a throat culture. If someone came in and told me they have their tonsils removed and they're having pain there, I'm still going to do a throat culture on them to make sure there's nothing there. I think you can still get a bacterial infection back there. It's going to significantly decrease the likelihood that you would have strep throat. Madsen: Technically, you could still get an infection back there. Interview: And if I don't have tonsils, then I can't get strep throat?ĭr. Can You Get Strep Throat Without Tonsils? So those are the classic symptoms of strep: sore throat without a cough, with tender, swollen lymph nodes in your neck, with a fever, and with white stuff on your tonsils. There have actually been several studies done that looked at those and each one of those increases the likelihood of strep from about if you have one of those four maybe it's 10-15 percent chance, all four it's closer to 60-70 percent.
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