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tom_e said:
Strep throat is quite a common phrase in the US, we just call it a sore throat.
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My wife has had it and gets it bad.
She is also allergic to penicillin (as in severely) which doesn't bode well. Last time she has strep throat she was laid up for 4 days in bed unable to move, the dangerous thing is that it can turn to sepsis very quickly. She hit 39/40 body temp a couple of times and almost took her to A&E (but 111 told me to stay unless she started convulsing during first lockdown).

If she caught this I think she would be very poorly. Not sure on the classification of strep she had (Stressful time if I remember) they did do a swab at one point though. Then she caught COVID literally a week after and got poorly again. :(
 
Buddy said:
Our practice getting absolutely smashed today, Monday and Friday due to this. The demand has been unreal.
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Was Oncall on Monday, never had so many queries from worried parents! Really felt the strain. Looking across the board of on-the-day bookings, about third were children with sore throats/coughs/colds and we don't have a young population either!
 
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shadow_boxer said:
Was Oncall on Monday, never had so many queries from worried parents! Really felt the strain. Looking across the board of on-the-day bookings, about third were children with sore throats/coughs/colds and we don't have a young population either!
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111 are giving up and diverting patients directly to A&E. Paeds is hellish across the country with the worried well arriving in droves.
 
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SexyGreyFox said:
That is true and observing the amount of blokes who walk straight past the sinks in a toilet, even when they've been in a cubicle, is astonishing.
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This was something that was studied decades ago when they took samples of peanuts in bowls at bars/pubs, they discovered dozens and dozens of urine samples from different people. Ever since then I've just assumed men don't wash their hands after the loo.

Way before covid and when I was living in London and commuting on the tube people used to scoff at me for using hand sanitiser after getting off the tube.
 
Minstadave said:
Kids are pretty grubby whatever you do and aren't great at wearing masks.
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And even then it's actually counter productive to be overly clinical for children as they do need to develop their immune systems.

I mean we're constantly bombarded by stuff all the time but not doing what you can to help yourself is also daft but instilling neuroses into children about not getting grubby, muddy etc... I personally feel not that healthy either.
 
Freefaller said:
This was something that was studied decades ago when they took samples of peanuts in bowls at bars/pubs, they discovered dozens and dozens of urine samples from different people. Ever since then I've just assumed men don't wash their hands after the loo.

Way before covid and when I was living in London and commuting on the tube people used to scoff at me for using hand sanitiser after getting off the tube.
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Back in 2010 I won a Nursing Times Award for a training video on Aseptic Technique, obviously made with a couple of Clinical experts in tow.
The first part of that video was the correct way to wash your hands so it was amusing to see in 2020 people thinking they were being patronised for how they washed their hands.
I also gave lessons in how to do this and also mask wearing back in 2008 to 2010 so it was sad to see people not wearing masks correctly including myself.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Back in 2010 I won a Nursing Times Award for a training video on Aseptic Technique, obviously made with a couple of Clinical experts in tow.
The first part of that video was the correct way to wash your hands so it was amusing to see in 2020 people thinking they were being patronised for how they washed their hands.
I also gave lessons in how to do this and also mask wearing back in 2008 to 2010 so it was sad to see people not wearing masks correctly including myself.
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I spent a bit of time doing voluntary work supporting kids with either terminal or very severe cancers (bringing them tech, goodies, and other bits with the local charity) and we all had to wear PPE, wash our hands etc... this was in the early 2000s so it's nothing new, but when it's forced on you people don't always see the bigger picture.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
That is true and observing the amount of blokes who walk straight past the sinks in a toilet, even when they've been in a cubicle, is astonishing.
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I've often seen younger guys use the urinal, walk to the sink, push the tap down so water is running and walk out, without ever actually wetting their hands. Can't wrap my head around it, guess they're too lazy to wash their hands but want anyone listening outside to believe they did, baffles me.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
YOU ARE INDEED CORRECT

Found to be group b strep positive on screening, now SROM
Do not want augmentation or IV antibiotics and understand this is
against current NICE or RCOG guidance
Couple have read multpiple studies re GBS and treatment with
antibiotics and the effects of reducing fetal micobiome
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So a classic case of "our kid is ill, please help, but we read something on the internet so we don't want you to help, but they're sick, why aren't you helping, don't you have some crystals or something you can heal them with?"
 
Haggisman said:
So a classic case of "our kid is ill, please help, but we read something on the internet so we don't want you to help, but they're sick, why aren't you helping, don't you have some crystals or something you can heal them with?"
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Welcome to my life. This isn't nearly as nutty as some of the stuff I have to put up with.
 
SixTwoSix said:
I've often seen younger guys use the urinal, walk to the sink, push the tap down so water is running and walk out, without ever actually wetting their hands. Can't wrap my head around it, guess they're too lazy to wash their hands but want anyone listening outside to believe they did, baffles me.
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I never wash my hands after peeing. I keep it nice and clean down there when i shower.
 
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