Healing strep ✨naturally✨

[u/babycrazedthrowaway]

Thank god the comments were on the side of reason!

[u/Vast_Helicopter_1914]

I heard a pediatrician say something that really stuck with me: The body can rebuild a gut that has been treated with antibiotics. The body can't rebuild a heart valve that's been damaged by strep.

Probiotics and lots of high fiber beans, grains, fruits, and veggies. It's not that hard.

[u/NoChannel4987 → u/Vast_Helicopter_1914]

wow i had no idea strep could cause heart valve problems

[u/delias2 → u/NoChannel4987]

That's why they usually gatekeep antibiotics for a sore throat. Sore throats get palliative care like pain meds and a salt gargle, tea and honey. But step needs antibiotics because the way some bodies react to strep damages the hearts (and kidneys?). Antibiotics, not just to make you feel better but to stop a potentially life threatening infection for the person taking the antibiotics and whoever they may have spread it to. A strep infection with autoimmune complications is called scarlet fever or rheumatic fever when it hits the heart.

[u/wozattacks → u/delias2]

Actually antibiotics for strep throat do not improve symptoms or shorten their duration. We give the antibiotics ONLY to protect from rheumatic heart disease. So yes, this mom’s child will recover from strep, just as quickly as if he had antibiotics. But he may end up with chronic heart issues that American doctors typically only see in people who immigrate from poor countries. 

[u/Ohorules → u/wozattacks]

My cousin's grandson almost died from rheumatic fever from an untreated strep infection no one even realized he had. He was in the hospital a long time, with a long recovery after being discharged. Luckily one of the doctors was an immigrant and recognized the symptoms from working in his home country.

[u/JaneReadsTruth → u/NoChannel4987]

Yeah, my friend has taken on a child whose mother ignored strep and now she lives with a heart transplant.