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Following the infection is proven, it can be given oral prescription antibiotics (penicillin, amoxicillin) or injections. Because of these medicines, you’ll stop being contagious, usually in 24 hours, and the recovery will probably be faster. It will also help avoid some severe complications. Once you start with the therapy it is very important to complete it, as if you end the treatment earlier, the disease may come back and may be tough to treat it.

In order to ease the early symptoms you can use some natural home remedies. The most important thing is always to have rest and drink a lot of fluids (juice, water, tea with honey, soup, etc.). It’s also recommended gargling warm water with salt 3-4 times a day and keeping the air in the room humidified.

Keep in mind the following facts about signs of strep thoat:

1. Strep throat is more common in children than it is in older adults. Up to 30% of cases of sore throat seen in physician’s offices are strep throat in the 5-15 year old age range, as opposed to under 10% of adults.
2. In streptococcal phayrngitis a painful throat, usually severe, is the primary symptom. Other symptoms like runny nose and cough are often absent. In case a runny nose and head congestion are present, strep throat is unlikely.
3. Streptococcal pharyngitis comes on quite suddenly. A painful throat which comes on gradually over a couple of days is not often strep.
4. Usually fever exists, and usually a relatively high fever of greater than 102 degrees Fahrenheit.
5. Swollen lymph nodes which are tender within the anterior neck are normally associated with this condition.
6. On looking at the throat you may notice small bright red patches called petechiae on the soft palate, plus a patchy whitish yellow exudate about the throat strep throat is more likely.

In summary you should have your child seen in day one or 2 of a severe a sore throat that is the primary signs of strep throat, without runny nose or congestion, that’s associated with fever. Having swollen anterior neck lymph nodes plus a petechial rash around the throat associated with a patchy white or yellow exudate on the tonsils. It is important to have your child seen at the start of the course of strep throat because although early treatment in the first two times of symptoms may shorten the condition by a day or two, treatment after 2-3 events of symptoms has not been shown to decrease the duration of the condition.

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