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How does angina develop? How can you catch the disease? How long is the hatching period? Can you get infected with angina, for example, through the touch or saliva of a sick person? The question is answered by the drug. Paweł Żmuda-Trzebiatowski.
How is angina caught?
Good day. My name is Katarzyna and I am the mother of 1,5-year-old Maksymilian. As soon as he was one year old, my son started attending a nursery. Unfortunately, this period (0,5 years) was a real nightmare for us. Maks was still ill, and this is Boston, bronchitis, pneumonia, not to mention the constant yellow and green rhinitis. For about three weeks, Maks started attending the nursery as usual, without a single day of absence. However, today I received information from the facility that there is angina in it (five children from Maks’s group are sick).
Honestly, neither my husband nor I have ever had it. So I would like to know if strep throat is contagious, especially in children? What is its hatching period? I know bacterial and viral angina may appear. Can you get infected with them? If so, how? By droplets, by touch, by saliva? I am afraid that Maks may catch tonsillitis, and in his case, I think it would be dangerous, after such serious diseases as he had.
I will be grateful for providing me with quick and comprehensive information about contagiousness of angina among children. Thank you very much Greetings.
The doctor explains the ways of contracting angina
Madam, angina is a contagious disease that can be easily caught. Both children and adults can become infected with it from a sick person or possibly an asymptomatic carrier. In adults, viruses are most often responsible for the disease. In children, on the other hand, bacteria are the main cause, most of all group A beta-hemolytic streptococciwhich is why in this case it is referred to as streptococcal angina. The infection most often occurs through droplets, but it can also be infected through direct contact with a sick person.
It is worth remembering that the highest incidence occurs in late autumn and early spring. For viral angina, the incubation period is about 1-6 days, but more importantly, an infected person can infect another 2 days before symptoms develop for up to 3 weeks after symptoms have subsided. As for streptococcal angina, the incubation period ranges from 12 to 96 hours, which is essential 24 hours after the use of an appropriate antibiotic, the patient ceases to infect.
As for streptococcal angina, which as I mentioned is much more common in children, it can present the following symptoms: severe sore throat, especially when swallowing, nausea and vomiting, high fever exceeding 38 degrees Celsius, whitish exudates on the palatine almondswhich are often enlarged and vivid red, raspberry tongue, and painful and enlarged anterior cervical lymph nodes. Importantly, there is no cough.
In the case of angina of viral etiology there is also a sore throat but less severe, mild fever, cough with rhinitis.
If you notice these symptoms in your son, you will need to see a pediatrician. In the case of streptococcal angina, the treatment consists in the use of antibiotics, especially phenoxymethyl penicillin. In a situation where we are dealing with a viral etiology, the treatment is only symptomatic, primarily analgesic and antipyretic.
– Lek. Paweł Żmuda-Trzebiatowski
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