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  • inquiring party

    Anonymous Poster

    21 years ago 01/16/2003 4:40am EST

    Hi everyone. Just wanted to ask about strept. I came down sick on Saturday night slightly on a flight. Monday I ran an easy hour, felt good, but had a bad head cold. Tuesday I had a fever twice that broke both times, and the head cold got worse. Wednesday I went to the infirmary and got a throat culture. The head cleared up a bit with saline spray and I started to feel better, but a cough moved into my chest, but not severe. I slept well last night and woke up feeling pretty good, but got the call that I have strept. Got antibiotics today. I took off the last two days, and I am wondering if its ok to run. So, if anyone has some feedback, professional would be great. You can't ask a doctor who doesn't run about running ill, they just say take off for weeks. best.

  • No joke

    Anonymous Poster

    21 years ago 01/16/2003 5:00am EST
    re: inquiring party

    Strep throat is no joke. Take time off to let your body kick it and finish your antibiotic medications - even if you feel better, even if they upset your stomach, etc. The Streptocoocus bacteria has an antigen profile similar to your heart valves - your immune system can produce antibodies that attack your heart valves - serious stuff - rheumatic fever, scarlet fever, etc, that can effect you the rest of your life, or shorten it - not much of a trade off vs. missing 7-10 days of training.

  • registered

    Flagpole Willy

    Member since 01/02/2003.

    8,786 posts. Last post 4 months ago.
    21 years ago 01/16/2003 5:38am EST
    re: No joke

    Totally agree. Hopefully you were lucky enough to get Zithromax (which is a 5 day course) instead of another antibiotic that takes 10-14 days.

    In either case, make sure you are over it before you resume training. My wife had strep this past fall, went on Zithromax for 5 days and then when the sore throat wasn't completely gone she went back to the doctor and they found that she still had a mild strep infection so back on the Zithromax she went for another 5 days.

    Running isn't or at least shouldn't be your life. If you can't take two weeks off to completely get better then you really have a problem.

  • Had it

    Anonymous Poster

    21 years ago 01/16/2003 12:54pm EST
    re: Flagpole Willy

    Be very careful with strep throat! A few years ago when I had it, I went to the Doctor and was given antibiotics. I felt better within a few days, so I resumed running. Things went downhill and I ended up very sick again. It turns out the strep infection didn't go away, an abcess (sp?) developed on my tonsil, and I had to get my tonsils removed! The whole experience was not fun and I missed several weeks of running instead of just maybe taking a week or so off to begin with. Don't mess with throat or chest infections - they can be nasty!

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    Young runner

    Member since 12/29/2002.

    22 posts. Last post 20 years ago.
    21 years ago 01/16/2003 1:17pm EST
    re: inquiring party

    yeah strept sucks, it can easily come back too. Unless your body kills all of the bacteria, it can still come back. That is why you must take all your medication even if you fell better. The last time I had it I was even told to change my toothbrush after I finished my medication to prevent it from coming back.

  • antecdote

    Anonymous Poster

    21 years ago 01/17/2003 1:40am EST
    re: young runner

    thank you very much for all of your imput. I have three days left on the drugs, so i will probably just jog a day or two for 20 minutes to keep my legs from becomming mush. i did get zithromax.

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    Flagpole Willy

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    21 years ago 01/17/2003 1:47am EST
    re: antecdote

    Personally if I were you, I'd wait until the Zithromax is finished - 5 days off isn't going to kill you. Someone else said something about getting a new toothbrush - good idea, and you might want to discard the toothpaste while you're at it too.

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