
S1 Ep6: More Than Strep: Pharyngitis w/ “Uncle Bob” Centor
The Cribsiders
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The Importance of Shortening the Duration of Illness in Adolescence
The complication post streptococcal glomerular nephritis is one of those complications that is not affected by treatment. And so we are not preventing it through treatment. I forgot there's one other reason that people talk about that is going to be very important in adolescence but isn't in pre adolescent age group. There's no good data that says that it decreases it very much at all. It turns out that if you look at the signs and symptoms of pharyngitis, they really break down into three groups: febrile response with more common to have a febriled response; inflammatory response or tonsillorexidates enter cervical adenopathy severe difficulty swallowing
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