DD has had a sore throat for about three days. The pain peaked today, and I took a look inside her throat and her tonsils are golf ball sized. No fever, no white patches.
Should I take her in to the walk-in hours at the ped tomorrow or should I assume it's a virus and just let it run it's course unless she develops a fever?
We probably should not beach hijacking the WTO thread for this, but…I'm responding bc I was tagged....
The concern with sore throat in children is Group A strep. The criteria for treating a child with antibiotics are usually: a positive Group A strep test, or a few or more of the following: fever, swollen lymph nodes, tonsillar exudate, and absence of cough. If she has two or more of those, I would take her in to get tested. Otherwise, more often than not, it is viral in nature or from postnasal drip.
DD has had a sore throat for about three days. The pain peaked today, and I took a look inside her throat and her tonsils are golf ball sized. No fever, no white patches.
Should I take her in to the walk-in hours at the ped tomorrow or should I assume it's a virus and just let it run it's course unless she develops a fever?
We probably should not beach hijacking the WTO thread for this, but…I'm responding bc I was tagged....
The concern with sore throat in children is Group A strep. The criteria for treating a child with antibiotics are usually: a positive Group A strep test, or a few or more of the following: fever, swollen lymph nodes, tonsillar exudate, and absence of cough. If she has two or more of those, I would take her in to get tested. Otherwise, more often than not, it is viral in nature or from postnasal drip.
ETA: talk to text is a bitch
LOL! I was popping around in threads so much yesterday (and there was quite a bit of overlap with cats and bitching and bad news) that I totally lost track of which threads I was in. Didn't mean to hi-jack WTO. I legit thought I was in Tuesday Randoms. (I even kept checking Tuesday Randoms to see if someone had responded without quoting or tagging. Now I realize why I didn't see any responses!)
Anyway, I took DD in to her ped's walk-in hours this morning, and, sure enough, Group A Strep. She had swollen lymph nodes, swollen tonsils with yellow *and* white exudate, and no cough, plus a rapid Strep test that turned positive in less than two minutes. (The exudate appeared overnight. There was none present when I checked yesterday, but it was painfully clear and present this morning.)
Clearly, she's on meds. First dose is already down the hatch. Thanks for responding. I appreciate it!
We probably should not beach hijacking the WTO thread for this, but…I'm responding bc I was tagged....
The concern with sore throat in children is Group A strep. The criteria for treating a child with antibiotics are usually: a positive Group A strep test, or a few or more of the following: fever, swollen lymph nodes, tonsillar exudate, and absence of cough. If she has two or more of those, I would take her in to get tested. Otherwise, more often than not, it is viral in nature or from postnasal drip.
ETA: talk to text is a bitch
LOL! I was popping around in threads so much yesterday (and there was quite a bit of overlap with cats and bitching and bad news) that I totally lost track of which threads I was in. Didn't mean to hi-jack WTO. I legit thought I was in Tuesday Randoms. (I even kept checking Tuesday Randoms to see if someone had responded without quoting or tagging. Now I realize why I didn't see any responses!)
Anyway, I took DD in to her ped's walk-in hours this morning, and, sure enough, Group A Strep. She had swollen lymph nodes, swollen tonsils with yellow *and* white exudate, and no cough, plus a rapid Strep test that turned positive in less than two minutes. (The exudate appeared overnight. There was none present when I checked yesterday, but it was painfully clear and present this morning.)
Clearly, she's on meds. First dose is already down the hatch. Thanks for responding. I appreciate it!
fallbaby11 I am intrigued. Please don't take this the wrong way. You have already posted in this thread once with yesterdays info. So, is it still Tuesday where you live? I said something last week to someone who posted in a thread a day late, then felt like an ass when I realize that not everyone lives in my time zone/country.
I am genuinely curious and I am trying my best to type this sincerely and without sarcasm.
@lildiamondeyes,
Lol! I thought I posted this in the WTO Wednesday thread. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't showing up in that thread. DS was acting up so I probably wasn't paying attention. I post more when I'm at work or at night. Thanks for being nice about this though!
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