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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dd gets frequent cases of strep. This winter, she got strep, then 2 days later, came down with strep symptoms again.  In this case, it seems like the first case probably wasn't cleared up.  After the 2nd case of strep, she was well for 2 weeks, then she got strep again this Sunday.  Here are my questions.

1. When she gets sick with strep, the dr always says she can go to school after being on medicine for 24 hours.  However, she is always too sick to go bad that soon.  It usually take her a full week of staying at home to feel up to going back to school or her extracurriculars.  Is this normal?  Is there anything I can do about it?
2. Why does she get strep so often?
3. Should I look into getting her tonsils out.

In first grade, she got strep 7 times. In second grade, I think she got strep 3 or 4 times.  This year in 3rd grade, she is either on case 2 if you think of the first case as one long extended case.  Oh and before public school, she did attend preschool for 3 years.  She did not get strep this frequently in preschool though.  However, I remember her first case of strep was on her first birthday.  [/quote]

My 2 year old tested positive for strep. In the first 12 hours, she had a fever or 102, 103 which I treated with Tylenol. After 36 hours after taking the first antibiotics, she was her usual self. Our ped also told us she could go to daycare the following day. Although she ate and acted normal, we diligently finished the 10 day regimen, but only THREE DAYS later, she started acting sick, and tested positive for strep again! The ped told us it was the same strain and prescribed us Cephalexin 250MG. I threw out the first medicine so I don't know what it was that didn't work, but the ped told us she was prescribing something different this time.

1) The second time around, her fever maxed out at 101 and she's acting almost normal a mere 6 hours after taking the medication. I'm still supposed to finish out the 10 days right? 
2) Does strep just go away with rest and no antibiotics? I'm afraid to create unnecessary resistance to antibiotics starting at such a young age of 2.
3) So what happened here?? What can I do to prevent this? My ped just kind of shrugged to that question and said watch what she puts in her mouth. But I don't know what she put in her mouth that caused this in the first place. She's at daycare most of her waking hours.   [/quote]

This is OP, yes you must finish the 10 days of antibiotics.  She is not yet cured of  her strep infection just because she is acting somewhat better.  You need to treat strep with antibiotics and take it seriously.  It can cause rheumatic fever, tics and even death.  I posted on the other thread that Jim Henson died from strep.

Either her first case wasn't cleared up, or she was reinfected.  You need to throw away her toothbrush and buy a new one and also sterlize her water bottles or throw those out as well.  [/quote]

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