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LL is a 12-year-old female presenting to her pediatrician complaining of sore throat and cough. She has had some hoarseness in her voice, but no fever has been documented. Upon review, she complains of isolated throat pain, without any runny nose, sinus pressure, or headache. Her mother has been taking her temperature at home, and they have fluctuated from 97.8 F- 100.2 F. (97 F- 99 F is normal) Her mother asks for antibiotics since a neighbor's kid started like this and ended up being admitted with pneumonia. What should be the next steps?

          LL is a 12-year-old female presenting to her pediatrician
complaining of sore throat and cough. She has had some hoarseness
in her voice, but no fever has been documented.
Upon review, she complains of isolated throat pain, without any
runny nose, sinus pressure, or headache. Her mother has been taking
her temperature at home, and they have fluctuated from 97.8 F-
100.2 F. (97 F- 99 F is normal)
Her mother asks for antibiotics since a neighbor's kid started
like this and ended up being admitted with pneumonia.
What should be the next steps?

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LL is a 12-year-old female presenting to her pediatrician complaining of sore throat and cough. She has had some hoarseness in her voice, but no fever has been documented. Upon review, she complains of isolated throat pain, without any runny nose, sinus pressure, or headache. Her mother has been taking her temperature at home, and they have fluctuated from 97.8 F- 100.2 F. (97 F- 99 F is normal) Her mother asks for antibiotics since a neighbor's kid started like this and ended up being admitted with pneumonia. What should be the next steps?

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00:01 Hello students.

00:02 Today's question is about a 12 -year -old girl that she complained about the sore throat as well as runny nose, headache, sinus, pressure and cuff.

00:10 But she had no fever.

00:11 So the next step forward.

00:13 And her mother encouraged that she should be advised to take the antibiotics.

00:19 But the doctor has not prescribed the antibiotics because he wanted to test further and wait for 48 hours.

00:30 Wait for 48 hours for the test.

00:33 So if the test had been positive, if the test had been positive, he would have given the antibiotics.

00:38 He would have given the antibiotics because these all are the symptoms of two diseases.

00:44 Two diseases and the first one is gac, gas and.

00:48 So the first one is gac.

00:51 What is gac? so that is acute.

00:55 Acute group a, group a, streptococal.

01:00 Trapto -coccal pharyngitis.

01:05 Pharyngeitis.

01:06 So if she would have been infected with this bacteria, then she would have given the antibiotics to get rid of that bacteria.

01:19 But doctor was not sure about that causative agent is bacteria or virus.

01:24 Cositive agent is bacteria or virus...

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