If your child or anyone in your family gets a sore throat:
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Visit your doctor and ask for a throat swab
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Have a throat swab done and check if it is a "strep" throat
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Your doctor will either give:
- a course of penicillin tablets. These tablets must be started straight away and taken for ten days (even if the sore throat feels better after two to three days). Erythromycin will be given to people who are allergic to penicillin.
- or one injection of penicillin
