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Suggest Ways To Overcome Stress Due To Germaphobia

i got an injection of pcn tuesday evening for strep throat, today one of the puss pockets may be slightly better, it looks if just my right tonsil is infected, which i'm sure i infected about 3 weeks ago trying to get "packed" food out of my right tonsil with my fingernail, i noticed pain the next day had some augmentin left over(a no-no) from a previous sinus infection took about 4, pain went away, then on tuesday, puss pockets back and a fever. I called the walk in clinic, they are calling me in keflex. I'm a germaphobe, and i'm stressing that i have a resistant strain of strep?????!!!!
Mon, 4 Aug 2014
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You are right in fearing that it may be resistant Streptococcus. The first thing you need to do is ask for culture and sensitivity of infected material. The report of sensitivity will tell you the antibiotics which are effective for your infection problem. Other than this take care of oral hygiene so there are less chance of infection in future.

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Suggest Ways To Overcome Stress Due To Germaphobia

Dear User, Thanks for using health care magic. You are right in fearing that it may be resistant Streptococcus. The first thing you need to do is ask for culture and sensitivity of infected material. The report of sensitivity will tell you the antibiotics which are effective for your infection problem. Other than this take care of oral hygiene so there are less chance of infection in future. Hope I have answered your query. If you have any further questions I will be happy to help . Thanks