In teenagers, infectious mononucleosis can cause a sore throat that looks like and has symptoms similar to strep throat (though they are different). Strep throat usually does not occur with cold symptoms such as coughing, sneezing, or a runny or stuffy nose.
Common symptoms of strep throat in children and adults include:
1. Sudden sore throat, sneezing, cold symptoms.
2. Pain or difficulty in swallowing.
3. Pyerexia (fever) over 101 degrees F. If there is lower fever – it may indicate a viral infection and not strep.
4. Tonsils and lymph nodes swollen in the neck.
5. There may be white / yellow spots or coating on the throat and tonsils.
The cost of treatment varies from country to country but it is not much costly. Usually the broad spectrum amoxicillin (OTC) or phenoxy-methyl-penicillin is commonly used in strep throat infection.
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Symptoms of strep throat are: Pain in the throat while talking or swallowing, feverish condition, voice change and head ache.
Streptococcal throat infections is a very serious condition for children. If ignored it may cause rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart diseases.

Medications are: see / visit your doctor, OTC amoxycillin eight hourly for acute condition and phenoxy-methyl-penicillin for chronic condition.

Streptococcal symptoms include sore throat, fever, tonsillar enlargement with pus exudation, sometimes cervical lymph nodes are also involved and absence of cough. It is caused by beta hemolytic streptococcus.
Viral pharyngitis is also similar in its presentation except that cough and rhinorrhea( nasal discharge) are present along with above symptoms.

Sore throat infection can be effectively managed depending on the cause of infection. Palliative treatment is usually better for viral pharyngitis and if it is in initial stages of bacterial (streptococcal) infection as the they happen to usually resolves by itself.

Analgesics with Anti-pyretics are offered in palliative treatment.
Luke warm water with pinch of salt used for gargling is also effective.
Antibiotics are not preferred unless there are some specific symptoms like pus exudate from tonsils, high fever and especially if these symptoms are seen in children below age of 15yrs.

Antibiotics should not be used without appropriate medical advice hence I prefer not to specify their brands. The cost for treatment is quite affordable even without health insurance.

It is best to also find out if your child has high temperatures. It may possibly be the situation once the body is fighting the natural way to stop the issue. And it is typically a positive signal that there's some kind of infection inside the physique. So keep in mind, whenever the tonsils are reddish colored and engorged, the tonsils are covered with white spots plus the youngster has fever then it is surely impacted with strep throat. Should the strep throat is light, the high temperature as a symptom may well not be found.
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A common infection in children, strep throat can lead to problems with a child's heart, joints or brain if left untreated