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Strep Throat: Child
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Symptoms of strep throat are usually a sore throat, fever, swelling of tonsils or white patches on the back of the throat. Some children get ear infections or abscesses of tonsils. Some may ... get a red raised rash, usually on the chest. Some children have mild symptoms.
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Antibiotics are used to treat strep throat and to prevent many of its complications, including rheumatic fever. Ibuprofen can help children feel much better while the antibiotic is taking effect. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends against treating sore throats with antibiotics unless the strep test is positive.
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Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis typically starts about 10 days after the onset of a strep throat or a skin infection such as impetigo. Though more common in children, it can occur at any age.
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The most exposed to the risk of strep throat are children aged between 5 and 15, but they are not the only ones. It may affect people at any age. The most common symptoms are tenderness and inflammations of lymph glands inside the neck and fever; small children ... experience pain in the abdomen.
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If your child has strep, antibiotics will help the sore throat go away quickly and will prevent complications like rheumatic fever from developing. (Without antibiotics, the throat pain would eventually go away, but the child would risk serious complications.) That's why pediatricians recommend a full 10-day course of oral antibiotics even if your child is feeling better. Echinacea, vitamin C, throat lozenges, and acetaminophen for fever will ease symptoms, but they don't provide the protection the antibiotics give.
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[One] common approach is to rely on a throat swab test to help decide whether or not strep is present. A cotton swab is rubbed against the back of the throat and the tonsils. It can make most children gag. There are two types of throat swab tests:
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