Questionhi, i'm a 19 year old girl with staph bacteria. i usually (every hour or so) get a sore throat and, rarely white pus somewhere near my tonsils; this started happening to me about a month ago. i dont know what staph is, but i know what caused it. my immune system is weak so i always used to get strep throat; throat infection. my doctor always gave me antibiotics to treat it, so i took about 6-7 bottles of antibiotic all in a year. thats how i probably got this bacteria. can you explain to me what it is and what i can use to treat it? i have a dumb doctor and she told me that there isnt anything i can use to treat it, but i heard that if it gets worse, it can affect other parts of my body including my liver. (i have gilbert syndrome.) please help- thanx!
Answerfirst of all, stop freaking out.......
you don't have a weakened immune system unless you have had some bad disease. Gilbert's is not a disease, it is simply a finding and if the bilirubin is only 2-3, it will never affect your life. Getting freq strep throat in the past is not unusual. Getting a sore throat every hour suggests that you are allergic to something... you are not getting a bacterial sore throat like that. And a culture of any throat will probably show some staph, which is short for staphlococcus aureus, just another bacteria, commonly found on everyone's skin and doesn't cause disease in the mouth/throat. (only certain strains of strep do also) The white pus recurrence near your tonsils if this happens all the time, is food getting caught in the tonsil pockets and rotting. If someone becomes a strep or staph carrier, it is typically in their nose, and I wind up treating someone with oral antibiotics and also Bactroban ointment twice a day in the nose for 7-10 days., but only if I have proven they are getting recurrent strep throat inf or recurrent staph skin infections. It gets more and more complicated as it goes, but I would ask you doctor to let you see an ear nose throat specialist once, to sort it all out.
