Category: 6. Strep Throat

Strep throat usually gets better in about a week as long as you follow your healthcare provider’s instructions. Most people who get strep don’t have any serious side effects or long-term problems from the illness. Your provider will let you know how long you should stay home to recover and when you can go back…

Before your healthcare provider decides on treatment, they will want to make sure that you do not have a sore throat for another reason. For example, a viral illness cannot be treated with antibiotics. However, if you have strep throat, it means you have a bacterial infection. In this case, you would need an antibiotic. There…

Your healthcare provider can usually tell if you have strep throat. An expert in throat health, called an otolaryngologist, can also diagnose the infection. They will ask you about your symptoms and look at your throat and neck.6 They will look for signs of strep throat, including: Redness, swelling, or white patches that look like pus in…

Strep throat spreads in saliva or other body fluids that have group A Streptococcus bacteria in them. If someone who has strep throat coughs or sneezes around you, it can expose you to the bacteria as it spreads through the air. You can also pick it up if you touch people or objects with bacteria on them.…

Strep throat is not the only infection that can cause a sore throat. In fact, viral illnesses that cause a sore throat are more common than strep throat. There are a few ways that strep throat is different from a sore throat from a viral infection, and these symptoms can help you to know if…

If you catch strep throat, you will usually start feeling sick two to five days after you are exposed to the bacteria that causes the infection. There are several symptoms of strep throat, but the most common is a very sore throat. Other symptoms of strep throat are: Difficulty swallowing or pain when swallowing (which might also…