recurring strep throat in our family

[karenmcg]

In the last 3 months, my daughter has had strep throat 4 times, and I have had it 3 times, all 7 cases confirmed by positive throat cultures.  My daughter has taken penicilin the first 3 times, then the fourth time both Clindamycin and Rifampin (the latter given the last 4 days of the former).  Our entire family of 4 was tested to see if any of us are carriers, with negative results.  My tonsils were removed as a child, yet there is talk of removing my daughters (seems pointless to me).  None of the doctors we've seen have any other ideas.  I'm thinking of giving us both Colloidal Silver.  We take vitamins, probiotics & adicophilus, we never share drinks, we've changed the toothbrushes every time (sometimes twice), we wash our hands often, and we are both otherwise healthy (no known allergies).  We've never been aware of being exosed to anyone else with strep.  I fear the bad effects of all the antibiotics, and we're just sick of being sick!  Please help!

[storm807]

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God Bless!

[karenmcg]

I'm back, and now my daughter has had 6 confirmed streps in 4 months.  When throat culture #7 came back negative, I was sure it was false because she had all the same symptoms.  But when #8 came back negative, I believe the doctors who tell me it's a virus.  In fact this virus has looked different than strep, but has lasted nearly three weeks, which means she has been sick for practically all of the last 5 weeks (after 6 streps, mind you).  This time she's had nausea (vomiting on only 2 days), stomach cramps, headaches, some low fever, and worst of all vertigo.  She's fallen several times in the house and especially out of bed while sleeping.  It's not terribly severe, but she sometimes holds furniture when she walks.

The four months preceding the streps she had non-stop headaches that were labeled as childhood migraines (I don't think I agree, though). She woke up with one every day and went to bed with one every day.   She was on high doses of Advil and also on Beta-lockers.  

So, that means 4 months of very troublesome headache, which overlapped with 6 streps, and now most of 5 weeks of a bad virus.  I can't help but think these three mysteries are connected somehow.  Doctors say it can't be an immune system problem, but I can't help but think we should check that out.  They repeatedly tell me "it's just strep throat," and now "it's just another virus."  How can one kid be sick so often?  She is very upset about it, and it's beginning to become her identity.  She's missed a lot of classes, and if I didn't homeschool her she would have missed nearly all of this school year so far.  I can't help but think she has some rare disease that will finally be diagnosed a year from now.  I want some answers!!!!!!!  Please help.

[moongardener]

My friend's family of 5 had recurring strep throat last year. They passed it back and forth between them, and it was months before they figured out what was causing the re-infections. It turned out to be the toothpaste that they all shared! Touching the tube to their toothbrushes passed the germs on.

[rebeck]

I have also had recurring strep,but mine has been strep B.  For the past year, I have been to the ER 3 times, and I have spit up every kind of mucous imaginable.  A lot of times allergies can cause these infections bc of the weakening of the imune sytem.  I got tested and found this to be true, BUT then went to my ENT for the 4th time this time bringing him what are known as tonsilliths (small round cottage cheese looking balls that can vary from white to greenish, yellowish, brown.  They are also incredibly foul smelling when smelt.  After being constantly sick for a year, having at least 7 throat infections, and finally taking a culture the 8th or 9th time I was on antibotic during the year, cryptic tonsils were diagnosed.  The diagnosis FINALLY came after I brought in the tonsilliths in a ziploc, which then caused him to take a closer look at my tonsils.  When he took them out yesterday, he said they were some of the worst he has ever seen, and he also said that I didn't show regular symptoms that would usually denote this problem.  I'd definitely get your tonsils checked. The last time I had strep I must have carried it for about a month then I took 1500mg of penicillin for 10 days which didn't rid it, then omniceph for 7 days up until my surgery.  It is an extemely painful surgery for adults, but he said when he took them out, it was very clear to him that they were infectuous and any antibotic would only make me feel better for a time and then come back.  You should check out an internet site on tonsils.  One of the main reasons for getting them removed is because of 5 or more infections a year.  Look into it.  I've talked to several that have had this done, and they ALL say it solved their strep problems completely.

[bactitech]

http://tinyurl.com/4iii

This is a page from www.quackwatch.com on Colloidal silver. Please read this and then decide if you want to take this very dubious substance.

If you believe that the vapor kills strep I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell you cheap.....

I'm a clinical microbiologist with nearly 30 years experience. Strep cultures are not 100% capable of recovering the strep. Rapid tests are not 100% accurate. Have you been growing Group A beta strep or another group like Group C? Group A is the one that can have lasting consequences such as rheumatic fever and kidney side effects, but other streps can also cause sore throats, particularly group C.

Labs differ in the ways that they culture strep screens. Some methods are better than others. Just because you had a negative culture doesn't necessarily mean that you didn't have it - there's always sampling error (did you gag real good when they took the specimen?). If the organism was there in really low numbers the swab may not have picked it up. A combination of rapid strep testing and culturing of negative rapid tests is the best way to cover all your bases. If you're only having rapid testing done, without a culture backup (actually having a lab plate the swab on an agar plate and looking for the beta strep), this can miss other groups of strep, as the rapid test only picks up Group A.

Hope this helps.

[karenmcg]

We're now on a total of 3 streps (in just over 3 months), my daughter had her fifth last week.  We have had negative cultures in between, and we know we're not (not always at least) just passing it back and forth since we go longer than the incubation period between episodes.  There is an alternative cure called colloidal silver that my herbalist friend recommends I try next time.  There is also something online that is a vapor you breathe and says it cures strep.  Does anyone know about these?  My pediatrician is out of answers, just wants to do a tonsilectomy on my daughter.  I don't.