Strep Throat...

[Max Powers]

But I will add that having large, convoluted tonsils with lots of crypts means you are quite likely to get recurring strep infections. My wife used to get a strep throat every winter - some quite severe - until she had her tonsils out at age 27 or so. Getting your tonsils out as an adult is unfortunately much worse than it is for a kid.

It's almost inevitable that I will have to have mine removed soon, I get strep just about every year. For me, drinking lots of icy cold water along with iburprofin provided the best relief. I hate it when it gets so inflamed that even eating is painful

I guess there are many worse surgeries to have performed, but I'm still not looking forward to it as I've never been under the knife before. Just broken bones for me up til now.

 

[Gil]

Me too

Sorry about my getting that mixed up, but I've never come across 'Strep Throat'. I wonder if it's a difference between US and UK?
I know we have the same medications, but called wholly different things. This is why I struggle to be able to advise the US contingent on medication when I am myself 100% UK!

Maybe I should keep my RN advice for the UK lot and you Gil, can continue advising the US folks

Glad to know I'm not alone.
With the accident prone, and sickness prone nature of this lot, I believe they need us both.👍
Regardless of which side of the pond we are on.
I forget that the "King's English" is often quite different from American English. Mea Culpa!
As for the rest of you: we (Milford and I) need a salary hike!!

Edit:
I did some research and found out that there is some commonality with Strep and Tonsilitis.
Strep can lead to Tonsilitis. However, there are other things that can also cause Tonsilitis.
So it seems, we are both right.

 

[Wenders]

Me too

Sorry about my getting that mixed up, but I've never come across 'Strep Throat'. I wonder if it's a difference between US and UK?
I know we have the same medications, but called wholly different things. This is why I struggle to be able to advise the US contingent on medication when I am myself 100% UK!

Maybe I should keep my RN advice for the UK lot and you Gil, can continue advising the US folks

Strep throat isn't a common occurance here in OZ either. Only ever heard of it when Americans use the term so either the Brits and Aussies are immune to it or we really just call it something else.

 

[Famine]

But I will add that having large, convoluted tonsils with lots of crypts means you are quite likely to get recurring strep infections. My wife used to get a strep throat every winter - some quite severe - until she had her tonsils out at age 27 or so. Getting your tonsils out as an adult is unfortunately much worse than it is for a kid.

If you have your tonsils out as a kid, chances are you might need to have them taken out again, later in life.


They grow back...

 

[TB]

As for the rest of you: we (Milford and I) need a salary hike!!

Give this a listen. If you can't stomach listening to all of it, go to 4:30 and listen to the end. My wife and her coworkers naturally love it.

 

[Anderton Prime]

Hey Famine, what's the point of them there tonsils anyway? I thought they serve to "catch" bacteria as it enters the body through the nose and mouth?

 

[Mrs. Famine]

Tonsils do that. They act as filters, to try and 'catch' any nasty bacteria entering your body as you quite rightly said. Unfortunately, some people catch bacteria which cause their tonsils to swell, usually frequently thus rendering them useless. You can manage without them just as well as you can with them as most bacteria which are ingested (therefore going past the tonsils) ends up in the stomach and destroyed by stomach acid. They're more of a belt and braces thing.

 

[Anderton Prime]

I gotta get outta this room; if I think about strep too much, I'm gonna have it in no time!