Yes, you can get strep throat without tonsils. It is not possible to diagnose it without a strep test, so you always need to see your physician. It is less common to get strep once your tonsils are out, though. John P. Vermeulen Internist Hingham, Massachusetts Yes, you can develop...
It causes swelling of the tonsils and the throat, butyou can still get it even if you don't have tonsils. Not having tonsils may reduce the severity of this infection. It may also reduce the number of times you come down with strep. Can you have exudate without strep? While pharyngitis...
The bumps are caused byenlarged lymphatic tissue in the tonsils and adenoids, which are pockets of tissue in the back of your throat. This tissue often becomes inflamed or irritated in response to extra mucus in the throat. While it can look alarming, cobblestone throat is usually harmless and...
I got strep throat a lot. There was some kind of sulfa drug that came chocolate-flavored. It must not have been real chocolate, because I was allergic to chocolate. To my mind, to have something that I was allowed to have that looked like the chocolate I could not have and love, ...
I've also seen that you might not have *all* the symptoms of a bacterial infection when you have strep throat. I somehow managed to pick up a case of it one summer - ironic, because I'm a teacher, but I got it somewhere else - and a sore throat was my main symptom. ...