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What can you do if you have strep and have trouble breathing and swallowing?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

ER Now: Sometimes a person may have such enlarged tonsils that they may need steroids in order to be able to swallow adequately. Please go to er now if you have trouble breathing.

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Answered 5/2/2013

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