Places like GoHealth Urgent Care frequently test and treat strep throat, especially in young children. We can also refer an ear, nose, and throat specialist is something to think about, should the problem persist. When you visit our urgent care center, there is no need to schedule an appointment and your wait time will be short wait times are usually less than 15 minutes.
Another tip to remember is this: strep throat is very contagious , so make sure your child stays home from school or other responsibilities after a strep diagnosis. After 24 hours of antibiotics, the infection will no longer be contagious. Louis, MO. Or is it? Sore Throat Symptoms A sore throat can be caused by allergens, like pollen and dust or even food, or sometimes bacterial infections. Symptoms include: A swollen, scratchy throat and tonsils Moderate fever Earache Moderate rash Lump on the neck caused by swollen glands Runny nose Cough or common cold Congestion Difficulty breathing Home treatment is usually all that is needed and certain at-home remedies differ for adults and children.
If positive… Sorry! If you don't have a tissue handy, make sure you cough or sneeze into your elbow — not your hands! Wash your hands often, especially after wiping or blowing your nose. Drink lots of cool liquids, such as water or ginger ale, especially if you have a fever, since you'll feel worse if you become dehydrated. Stay away from orange juice, lemonade, and other acidic drinks because they can sting your throat.
Frozen foods such as ice cream or popsicles can help to numb throat soreness. Warm liquids like soups, tea with honey, or hot chocolate also can be soothing.
Ask your doctor before using throat drops or over-the-counter throat sprays because these might make a strep infection feel worse. Larger text size Large text size Regular text size. What Is Strep Throat? Strep throat is different. Signs that you may have strep throat include: red and white patches in the throat trouble swallowing tender, swollen glands lymph nodes on the sides of your neck red, big tonsils headache stomach pain fever feeling weak or sick loss of appetite and nausea rash If you have any of these symptoms, it's definitely time to see your doctor.
Is Strep Throat Contagious? How Is Strep Throat Treated? Can Strep Throat Be Prevented? Today on the Scope, we're talking about strep throat: the symptoms and what you can do about it. Troy Madsen is an emergency room physician at University of Utah Health. Tell me, strep throat, and I think we should also talk about what people might confuse it with, but what is strep throat?
Madsen: So strep throat is a bacterial infection of the tonsils. It's by strep, streptococcus, it's the full name of the bacteria. It's something you can get just by being exposed to someone with strep, usually from droplets like if they're coughing or they touched something that's been in their mouth and then you'd touch that and put it in your mouth.
That's primarily how you're going to catch strep. Madsen: It's interesting with strep, it's one of these things where it's probably been so over-treated and confused over the years that there have really been some good studies done to try and figure out exactly what symptoms would suggest strep throat.
There are four things that suggest strep throat. Those things are: first of all, not having a cough, so if your throat hurts and you don't have a cough , you're more likely to have strep; if you push on the front part of your neck and you feel your glands or your lymph nodes, sometimes we'll call them glands, you feel that area and it's swollen and it hurts , that also means you're more likely to have strep; if you have a fever , you're more likely to have strep; and the fourth thing, if you can somehow look in a mirror or if someone can look in your mouth with a flashlight, kind of pushing your tongue down a little bit, and you can see your tonsils and there's white stuff on the tonsils , that also suggests strep.
So those four things. 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 percent chance, all four it's closer to percent. 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. Madsen: Technically, you could still get an infection back there.
That's a great question. It's going to significantly decrease the likelihood that you would have strep throat. I think you can still get a bacterial infection back there. 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.
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. Madsen: Usually. But it's funny if you look at throat cultures, so we have what's called the rapid strep. 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 percent of the time.
And, like I mentioned, if you meet four of those four criteria for those symptoms, odds are percent. So it's really not wrong for a physician even to just examine you and say, "Hey, you meet all four of these criteria. You've got strep. Let's skip the rapid strep.
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