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Originally Posted by Mystik
I've let it slide for a few months, because it wasnt that bad and hasnt affected anything, but now since I went outside yesterday in the cold its gotten little worse. I skipped like 2 other severe illnesses that went around my house.
I dont get if my immunity was that high why wont the strep/sore throat go away? - goto doc is easy answer im not looking for ty |
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Originally Posted by bigss75
If you actually had strep for months you would probably be close to kidney failure or have major heart disease. I would only take an antibiotic unless you have high fever, swollen lymph nodes, or oozing tonsils.
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Originally Posted by KelJu
You are wrong. A particularly nasty strain of strep hit mobile this time last year, and most of the people I know that caught it, had it off and on for over a month. It had my immune system down so bad that I caught pink eye and both my ears were infected. I had no kidney problems or heart disease.
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Originally Posted by bigss75
The "strep throat" everyone knows about is Streptococcus pyogenes which will kill you if untreated. As for the the strep that hit Mobile,I have no idea what that species is, but the word Strep can be used for a whole family of bacteria.
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Traditionally, it has been thought that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when he noticed a mold growing on his Petri dishes: wherever the mold grew, bacteria died. In fact, the true story is much more complicated... and INTERESTING! The mold actually grew on Fleming himself, initially covering his feet below the ankles with a thin blue fuzz, and ultimately extending all the way up to the middle of his abdomen. Fleming remained moldy for about 6 weeks; during that whole time he observed that he didn't get sick even one time. Fleming realized that the mold that had been growing on him was Penicillium, or bread mold. He set about culturing more mold on any bread he could lay his hands on, including the sandwiches and hamburger buns that belonged to his lab staff. By the middle of 1939, Fleming had enough bread mold to fill a telephone booth... but then WAR broke out. Fleming's mold-filled telephone booth was transported to the front. It was struck by a shell, and the mold was destroyed. America realized: something had to be done, SOON! Every day, hundreds of soldiers were contracting gonorrhea in the line of duty! Fleming had an idea: he immediately deployed a crack team of scientists to riffle through the refrigerators of students across Britain. A search revealed huge quantities of moldy food, yielding a precious supply of "penicillin", as it is now called. However, administering penicillin was difficult. Often, an infected wound would be rubbed directly with a piece of moldy bread, leading to friction burns. It was even more difficult to give the drug intravenously, as crumbs would clog the IV tubing. Two brilliant scientists, Florey and Chain, developed the idea of scraping the mold off the bread with a specially designed fork. They shook the mold off the forks into the special glass vials and plastic IV bags that penicillin comes in today. |
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Originally Posted by KelJu
Well the nurse who swabbed my throat and did a strep test told me it was strep and listed on my paper work as Streptococcus, also known as strep throat.
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Originally Posted by maniclion
That was purely for laughs, honestly your best option is to see a doc or go to a free clinic and get penicillin, if it has gone by now chances are you may be causing seroius stress to your immune system and the rest of your body, please get some penicillin |
