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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
To add to what Machiavelli said, the standard protocol, that SHOULD be followed, is to swab first and prescribe upon results. All guidelines stress this. Even if presenting with all the clinical symptoms, only 70% are bacterial in nature, so swabs are necessary. Strep is a self limiting infection, it goes away by itself. The reason for treating with antibiotics is to prevent rare complications like rheumatic fever and resulting kidney damage. In and of itself, strep goes away on it's own
If the Doctor on the phone says "yep, is strep" there should be a prescription phoned in at that point. Really, it should have been phoned in the day he got the results. The problem wasn't the swab first, the problem is insisting on a visit to get the treatment
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Right, but according to the grandfather here the boy had been sick for 4 days. So the mom delays a doctors visit for a day or so, not knowing what the illness is and then a swab takes another couple of days?
I'm not at all in the same situation, but I can see how this could happen to a "normal" parent. That's what makes it scary to me.