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Can you tell me when does pharyngitis become serious?
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Spread: Pharyngitis infections are near systems critical to your health such as the larynx and epiglottis. If a pharyngeal infections gets very bad it can form an abscess , occlude you airway even spread to tissues in the larynx. Now you would be getting quite ill before all these horrible events happen. Its important to treat pharyngeal bacterial infections when fever is involved or symptom worsen
Answered 9/29/2016
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