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Suggest Treatment For Sore Throat While On Amoxicillin

Posted on Thu, 27 Apr 2017

Question: 6 days ago I woke up with a L sided sore throat. By mid day, the pain was unbearable. Fever and severe body aches presented shoelrtly thereafter. Took 800 mg of IBU and slept. Next morning, woke up with visual swelling of L lymph node, extreme pain especially while swallowing, lithargy, and body aches. Visual examination revealed a severly inflamed L tonsil completely covered with pus pockets. I started amoxicillin and next days visual examination revealed decrease of inflammation and amount of pus pockets AND some of the pus pockets were then black with first morning sputum same black color.. I have never experienced this in the past. Is this normal or something to worry about?

Answered by Dr. Priyanka Aggarwal (5 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Acute tonsillitis

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Welcome to HealthcareMagic and thanks for putting up the query
You are suffering from acute tonsillitis. The pus pockets are suggestive of that. Black sputum can be due to bleeding from the inflamed tissue. Even lymph node enlargement is due that. Single side tonsillitis can be associated with abscess formation. Best would be to get examined by an ENT SPECIALIST or at least send me the pictures of your throat so that I can suggest you better.
Continue with the Medicines you are taking. Also use hexidine gargles.
Take vitamin c once daily.
Any further questions are always welcome.
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Thanks and regards

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