You may have white or yellow patches on your throat. Children may also experience stomach aches or vomiting. Strep throat spreads easily through respiratory droplets when someone with the ...

Dr Janine Zee-Cheng, a board-certified paediatrician in Indiana, told HuffPost that sometimes a child will come in with a headache, a stomachache and a fever and test positive for strep without ever ...

If you have white patches on your tonsils, that’s a sign of strep throat. In both of these cases, call in sick and see a doctor. You may feel better with an antiviral or antibiotic medication.

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