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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks, everyone--I appreciate all of your thoughts.  I'm on a different antibiotic, yet again, as the one I started with (clindamycin) seemingly had no effect on the strep after 48+ hours. We're now thinking that I may not ever have fully gotten rid of it a month ago with that same antibiotic.

Re the signs of strep--as a PP said, it's like swallowing glass, tonsils are enormous with patches of white (exudate, I think they call it, but it's basically pus or mucus), swollen glands, fever, everything hurts.  My older kid throws up without fail within the first 24 hours of getting it--we don't know if that's because of the fever or the strep itself but he does it every single time.  I've also thrown up from it and my husband did, too, when he had it this winter. It's definitely a marked difference from any other kind of sore throat I've ever had.

Back in the fall, when the older kid had it three times, our pediatrician was reluctant to test the little one. Unlike when I was a kid, she said the recommendation now is not to treat strep without symptoms--that's pretty much what the NY Times article the PP linked says, too. If any of us get it again in the next couple of months, though, I am really going to push her on testing both kids--or we'll all just go to a minute clinic or something.

So sorry to the rest of you guys who have it or have had multiple infections this year... It's the worst.[/quote]

??? Do you have any pets?[/quote]

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