Friday, February 11, 2011

Pharyngitis Charts

Pharyngitis
Charts

Most cases of pharyngitis resolve spontaneously in 10 days. In cases caused by streptococcal pharyngitis, treated with penicillin, alleviate symptoms within 24 hours after treatment is instituted. Contagious and the febrile period is reduced to one day.


If therapy with erythromycin, mitigating the symptoms can be seen within 72 hours. The incidence of resistance to erythromycin is more than 25%. Therefore, patients on treatment with erythromycin should be carefully monitored to track the effectiveness of treatment.


Treatment failure, relatively frequent indications of causes of failure, resistance to antibiotics, a new display, or flora, host immune suppression required.

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