Antibiotics for Strep Throat: Do We Need Them?

Antiseptic gargles or salt & pepper gargles rend to relieve some symtpoms without antibiotics in some to most cases unless severe..

i have Mononucleosis and streptococcus both at once, went to the doctor and they tested me and told me i have both, the worst sick i have ever experienced. i literally cant eat anything, i have had two spoons of soup in the last two days

If you can’t get to the doctor eat garlic cloves and honey. Eat some crackers or bread before you eat the garlic so that it doesn’t hurt your stomach

I had strep and and i didn’t know it until day 5 and it was excruciating pain to swallow. It was so bad i stayed awake all night in pain..i had to go to the ER because the infection started to spread to my left ear. I got antibiotics and started to get better 2 days later.

I got strep throat recently and as a scientist in the medical field of course I was like "🤔 I wonder what happens if..." 😄 so I didn't get antibiotics, isolated myself (of course), dealt with the fever, headaches and face pressure. But my god...the feeling of swallowing two lumps of Play-doh was Miserable. Uuuugh... 😞 I drank green tea with honey and lemon constantly, moping around moaning "Uuuugh this suuucks 😞" But I wanted to see how long my immune system would take to overrun it. It took about 4 days before I started feeling like it had begun taking over the illness and things were looking up, like I could get up and move around a little more. Then the next day more, and better. After a week, I was healing extremely well and doing good. No headaches, no face pressure/pain. Tonsil swelling gone down a LOT, with just a little streak here and there left. I concluded that historically, antibiotics made me feel better 2 days faster and that was it. They do say your're not contagious after having antibiotics in your system for 24 hours which allows you to be out and around people if you WANT or HAVE to but I didn't want to and didn't have to because I isolated and called in from work using sick days. So it all worked out because I gave it time since I had time and decent immunity to give. And patience. Of course, not everybody wants to deal with all that 🤣 But it was an interesting "adventure" for me.

my GP couldn't recognise my strep throat, now i am suffering so bad

Praying for the people who have strep throat like me😢

Wow Sir you are good at your work. My daughter has strep throat at the moment,2-3 time and I will send her your video so she can understand that you don’t need antibiotics all the time. Thank you wise human ✨💫🙏

Yes, you need antibiotics cause otherwise it can kill you!!!

I have to say strep throat is whooping my ass over here

ja sam ih hrvatske zivim u njemackoj i bas se brinem o ovoj reumatskoj groznici iz razloga sto sam prestao piti antibiotik clyndamicin nakon jednog dana uzimanja jer mi je uzrokovao jake probavne tegobe ! Nadam se da necu biti u toj niskoj statistici 😂 inace antibiotik je djelovao ali radi ranog prekidanja vjerojatno je sad bakterija imuna na taj ljek ...nakon toga dobio sam drugi antibiotik dosyciklin za koji citam da je ucinkovitosti 44% nakon 11 dana jos uvjek imam temperaturu al grlo je bolje nadam se da nisam rizican za reumatsku groznicu inace imam 34 godine 😁 generalno da li ako antibiotik ne ubije streptokok da li uvjek postoji opasnost od infekcije ili se tijelo rijesava samo te bakterije ? To mi uopce nije jasno

Don't discriminate no matter the circumstances there is always a way out of any situation because with God all things are possible a big thank you to doctor Pius Ozigbe herbal home for helping me get rid of herpes virus and making the world a better place..

There is a huge need for common guidelines and clear guidelines in order to reduce the overuse of antibiotics. Centor criteria are vague that's why nobody trusts it in everyday practice. A percentage is never accepted. Either you have strepto or not. I once saw a patient 40 years old, in Greece, who had shortly after infection a heart valve damage and needed surgery. He was given antibiotics by a doctor who uses ab for every patient- but the problem is that when he was given the ab, he had minimal symptoms, no fever, and probably did not justify the use of ab. The one who had the greatest problem had symptoms that did not justify the use of ab. Cases like that lead to overuse.