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A member asked:
If my sore throat is gone with out medication do i still have strep throat?
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Finish meds: If u had a positive strep culture need to finish 10 days of meds.
Answered 4/1/2014
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Strep throat: The symptoms of this illness can vanish without having eradicated the organism from your throat. The major point of treating strep infection is not to treat symptoms, but rather to prevent post-streptococcal complications (acute rheumatic fever).
Answered 4/11/2014
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Maybe: You can always play the odds and see what happens.Like the folk in the early 1900s.They also had strep ; it passed.However, about 1/200 developed 1of 3 patterns of complications.The only way to know if you had strep was to test it.If treated within 10 days of 1st symptoms you can stop the pattern of complications for strep, if not, you know you won't suffer them.
Answered 4/2/2014
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