how do you know it's bacterial?
Symptoms are the same for bacterial and viral throat infections and all penicillin will do for you for a viral infection is make you more susceptible and more likely to be iller the next time you do get a bacterial infection
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 12 May 2011, 15:32, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

technical answer is technical
and makes me feel worse. i just want some tablets to make it stop.

and some ice cream. lots and lots of ice cream. take out all the calories first though.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 12 May 2011, 15:35, Reply)

NSAIDs and man the fuck up.
Sorry, but that's the medical solution in 99% of sore throats, be it tonsillitis or laryngitis. Sometimes there is a bacterial cause, sure, but mostly not. In any case unless you're running a brutal fever it's not really important. Most doctors just prescribe antibiotics because the public are whining children at heart. It goes away anyway, public thing the abs have worked. except then they whine about how all the hospitals have C.diff and MRSA problems. Which are caused almost entirely by the whining public costantly taking antibiotics when they don't need to.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 12 May 2011, 15:40, Reply)

I got antibiotics when I'd had a nasty inficetion in my gum
and then developed tonsilitis and after two weeks of not being able to swallow I went to see the Doctor.

They didn't work. I was ill for another week and a half.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 12 May 2011, 15:42, Reply)

that doesn't fix it NOW though
i am not good at being ill, i am far too healthy normally. and impatient.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 12 May 2011, 15:47, Reply)

Nothing will fix it NOW though will it.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 12 May 2011, 15:48, Reply)