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How to cure dry itchy painful throat for a month. taken 3 types of antibiotics still not recover? why?how long takes to recover?

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Throat: If youve had a culture and its not bacterial, it could be dyness, allergic or possibly fungal after the antibiotics.Aside from gargling, see an ent and get a culture to determine the cause and proper treatment.

Answered 9/29/2016

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