2006-11-19 22:07:54 · 13 answers · asked by Ann 4 in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
ohh owwchie.... well chicken soup is good...also ice to cool the burning. but seriously you should get to a doctor and get on antibiotics. i had strep and waited to long thinking "i'll get rid of it myself" .......well make a long story short it turned a lot worse and cost me 6 legs and 3 arms. please get some antibiotics.
2006-11-19 22:11:17 · answer #1 · answered by Kittie_Nash 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. No. No. No. No. I tried a few years back to treat strep at home. It cannot be cured with anything other than antibiotics. If you try to treat it at home, your recovery time will be long and painful on top of the additional pain you're enduring trying to ride this out.
And now that it's too late for me - untreated strep can cause irreversible heart damage by turning into rheumatic heart disease, which permanently damages the heart valves.
Please, go to a doctor for antibiotics.
2006-11-20 07:01:42 · answer #2 · answered by Lisa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try gurgles with warm water with salt (a glass of water with 1 tsp of table salt). Feel the warmth and salinity in your throat. But if you have evidence of Strep, then you need Pennicillin
2006-11-20 11:02:47 · answer #3 · answered by drheal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lisa is right. If you delay come to doctor, you will suffer more than now. Strep throat is differ from with sore throat.
2006-11-20 10:24:51 · answer #4 · answered by Joeng 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
-Add 1/2 teaspoon turmeric and 1/2 teaspoon salt in 1 cup of warm water. Gargle with this mixture twice a day.
-Drink at least 8 glasses of fluids a day. Warm drinks with honey and lemon are particularly soothing.
2006-11-20 17:58:57 · answer #5 · answered by Sneha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u say home treatment....u can gargles salts water and take a lot of warm water....but this is more to treatment of mild strep throat
2006-11-20 08:07:56 · answer #6 · answered by love me 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
IF YOU HAVE STREP THROAT YOU NEED TO GO TO THE DOC.STREP INFECTION IS TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS.
UNTREATED STREP CAN CAUSE HEART PROBLEMS OR RHEUMATIC FEVER.
TO TREAT THE SYMPTOMS AFTER YOU GO TO DOC GARGLE WITH WARM SALT WATER,CHICKEN SOUP,TYLENOL OR MOTRIN. GET PLENTY OF REST AND DRINK LOTS OF FLUIDS.
GOOD LUCK I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER.
2006-11-20 08:47:43 · answer #7 · answered by KAT 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there are two three remedies for a strep throat
1. try gargling with warm salt water
2. try drinking water boiled with thulasi
3. dont drink cold water and put steam acros ur throat
2006-11-20 06:11:13 · answer #8 · answered by vishnu s 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you're better off going to the doctor for antibiotics...strep is not a bacteria to mess around with. it can cause heart damage if it isn't treated soon enough, and with the proper antibiotics.
2006-11-20 06:11:46 · answer #9 · answered by pirate00girl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
tumeric powder works as an antibiotic. Besides gargling salt water, have a table spoon of honey with some tumeric sprinkled on it 3 or so times a ady.
2006-11-20 10:06:09 · answer #10 · answered by klumzy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋