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My throat was a bit sore lastnight. Now it feels as if it is terribly dry and something is stuck in it. Everytime I swallow it feels like I swallow sharp stuff. I just woke up and my ears are really tender I also have a headache.

 

What is this? What will help? Please don't say doc I have no doc or insurance since the move. On a bright note my wild child is the best kid in the world today.

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Sounds similar to the yuck going around here. Some of the children went to the doctor and have ear, sinus, and throat infections. I haven't gone yet and have been fighting it with Vitamin C, tons of fluids, and garlic. I had one really bad day and have been slowly improving. If I do take a turn for the worse, I may go to the doctor early next week.

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Oh, no. We all started that way. Strep throat, and a nasty case of it, including ear infections and more. It's totally going around. At our house the vitamin C, apple cider vinegar, and super-garlicky chicken soup didn't touch it. Like myeightkiddies, I thought I could weather it myself even though the kids needed meds, but now I've had a relapse that is much worse than the first round. DH is also on his second round of it.

 

Call your local urgent care and see what they do for non-insurance. Call your local health food store and see what alternative treatments are working for their customers.

 

Just don't let it go a couple of days. :(

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We all had some evil upper-respiratory, flu-like, sore throat thing. (I couldn't speak for three days) It was awful and hung on forever. DH, and Ds got better, but mine turned into bronchitis. I ended up on antibiotics to get rid of it. I went to a Minute Clinic type thing. They treat it pretty cheaply. They'll do a strep culture to rule that out. With a throat as sore as yours, I'm not sure I'd ride it out and risk letting it turn into pneumonia because THAT can bean expensive hospital stay.

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