| If you notice a red, sore throat, with swollen neck | | | | course! Your doctor will swab your throat to test for |
| lymph nodes, a fever, headache, and white spots on | | | | the bacterium culture, or for a rapid strep test. This |
| your tonsils, then you probably have what is known | | | | process can be done in the doctors office, and only |
| as strep throat. In childrens cases, it can cause | | | | takes 5 to 10 minutes. If the original tests come back |
| abdominal pain, nausea, and even vomiting. | | | | negative, then a second "follow - up culture" test |
| Symptoms such as a stuffy nose, sneezing, and | | | | may take place. This can take up to 2 days for |
| coughing, which are common for colds, are not | | | | results. If you are taking medication, and both tests |
| generally seen in the case of strep throat.If harsh | | | | are negative for strep, discontinue use of the |
| symptoms do not arise, and you are untreated, you | | | | antibiotics, as this may suggest that you have a viral |
| could be infecting people in your surroundings for the | | | | infection and need to be treated properly.Feel free to |
| first 2 to 3 weeks of contraction. After a treatment | | | | reprint this article as long as you keep the article, this |
| has begun, however, you are only contageous for | | | | caption and author biography in tact with all |
| the next 24 to 28 hours. Generally, you contract | | | | hyperlinks. |
| strep throat through a bacterium that is spread by | | | | |
| close contact to an infected person. In some cases | | | | Tyler Brooker is the owner and operator of The |
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