Is this strep throat or some other form of strep? Strep throat is contagious until you’ve been on antibiotics for a certain period of time (is it 24 hours?). This is from a doctor who was testing me for strep throat once (I didn’t have it) so I didn’t need the antibiotics. If you’ve got symptoms of strep throat, it usually will become a nasty fever-thing and doesn’t clear up without antibiotics. Maybe you’ve got a different strep (not strep throat?) or it’s only untreated in people who aren’t showing symptoms? This is just a guess on my part.
Since you’ve started the antibiotics, you need to finish them (even if you find out that treating strep this way was “unnecessary”. If you didn’t, you could end up contributing to the “antibiotic resistance” of a strand of strep and get sick again (probably sicker than the first time) or spread it to someone else.
Diflucan pills take a little while to take full effect. My doctor gave me one pill (I wasn’t on antibiotics of any variety) and told me not to expect everything to clear up for a few days. She told me that the pill would treat the yeast infection but not the symptoms so I should get some over the counter creams if I wanted some relief from pain/itching/burning until the pill had a chance to clear everything up.
Antibiotics tend to “cause” yeast infections, and you’re still taking the antibiotics. The first diflucin pill would probably treat it, but if you’re still on antibiotics, the antibiotics would probably bring it back. I would guess that the second diflucin pill would be to stop any resistant yeasties from grabbing a deep strong hold after your continued antibiotics.
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Date: 2003-10-27 09:07 am (UTC)Since you’ve started the antibiotics, you need to finish them (even if you find out that treating strep this way was “unnecessary”. If you didn’t, you could end up contributing to the “antibiotic resistance” of a strand of strep and get sick again (probably sicker than the first time) or spread it to someone else.
Diflucan pills take a little while to take full effect. My doctor gave me one pill (I wasn’t on antibiotics of any variety) and told me not to expect everything to clear up for a few days. She told me that the pill would treat the yeast infection but not the symptoms so I should get some over the counter creams if I wanted some relief from pain/itching/burning until the pill had a chance to clear everything up.
Antibiotics tend to “cause” yeast infections, and you’re still taking the antibiotics. The first diflucin pill would probably treat it, but if you’re still on antibiotics, the antibiotics would probably bring it back. I would guess that the second diflucin pill would be to stop any resistant yeasties from grabbing a deep strong hold after your continued antibiotics.