my throat hurts when i swallow, and i cough,do i have strep throat?

Question

if i do what should i use, and do i have to stay home?

Answer 1

look in a mirror at the back of your throat if there are little white spots you have strep. if this is the case you very contaigous and need to see your doctor to get antibiotics. while you are contagious stay home and drink plenty of fulids

Answer 2

you need to go to the doctor and get him to take a culture of yourthroat you can get some of your family to get a flashlight and look in the back of your throat if they see little white blisters on the back of your throat then you have strep throat but in the meantime put hot water as much as you can stand in the back of your throat then gargle and then spit do this until the water turns cool do this 2-3 times daily until you can find out about the strep throat

Answer 3

I had strep throught before. It feels like a ping pong ball is stuck there, worse than any sore throught. When I want to the dr he told me there was no way i could have step throught. I made him do a test. It's very simple they get the results right away. I was right i had it and with the right medicine it went away quickly. It can be contegious so you should stay home just till you figure out what it is. Hope you feel better!

Answer 4

Sounds like u do n best way to find out would be to see a doctor cuz others could get it and it will hurt and you will need antibiotics to get rid of it.

Answer 5

Try gargling with warm salt and water. It works for me! Try a swig of Vodka! :-)

Answer 6

i have the same thing. drink tea with lemon, drink HOT orange juice its really helped me. oh u might wanna try Halls to those things are good.

Answer 7

drink the honey iced water something.

haha. i'm sorry about not remembering the drink name but i know there've got to be honey inside!