[Closed] Been on a spa weekend , come back with a sore throat...why?

You need to take a couple of these

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It's going around. Probably nothing to do with the spa.

You have a sore throat.

You have a sore throat.

You're as likely to pick up germs in a spa as in any other public place I suppose. Apply whisky liberally to the affected areas.

All the jizz in the pools

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Could it be connected to steam rooms/ sauna

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Spent a lot of time in a jacuzzi? I find that gives Me a sore throat, chlorine vapours or something I reckon. Either that or you have a sore throat 🙂

Spa = something that women do.

Go away for a w/e with the lads and earn your sore throat properly...

😉

unfitgeezer - Member

Got work in the morning...

Can't you take the day off ?

You've got a sore throat ffs.

Did you drink the sulphur water instead of have a bath in it?

Razor blade mouth glands up ahhh
Walk ion centre for me it's deffo tonsillitis

Take a day off you say ? I'm an opera singer... 🙄

Why walk in centre out of interest?
Generally tonsillitis doesn't need treating.
Paracetamol and brfufen from chemist, rest in bed etc etc...

If it's any consolation... I've just started my holiday with a cracking sore throat and headache... 🙁

DrP

Bad aids??

Giving happy endings in the massage room when you should have been receiving?

Why walk in centre out of interest?
Generally tonsillitis doesn't need treating.
Paracetamol and brfufen from chemist, rest in bed etc etc...

I get tonsillitis at least twice a year and it completely debilitates me rendering me useless unless treated, normally I have symptoms before hand but funnily enough not yesterday !

Back from the walk in centre with my prescribed clarithromycin 500mg (cant take penicillin) sitting at work which I have no choice to be at today...roll on 1.30pm so I can get the drugs and sleep ( if my family let me)

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bedmaker - Member
Giving happy endings in the massage room when you should have been receiving?

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I get tonsillitis at least twice a year and it completely debilitates me rendering me useless unless treated...

But in reality you've had less than a day of symptoms.
Tonsillitis and cold symptoms last 7-10 days, mostly, regardless of if you have medicines from the doctor, homeopathy from the quack, of BBQ sauce from McDonalds.
Yes, there are some specific signs that would indicate additional treatments are needed (Which you may have had - this is a 'general statement')

Obviously I'm not in a position to comment on your specific case, but this site contains lots of useful information on managing sore throats etc:
[url= http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Tonsillitis/Pages/Treatment.aspx ]NHS Choices[/url].

A massive challenge facing general practice at present is the 'belief' that "I won't get better unless I've had antibiotics".
However, the evidence suggests otherwise (in the majority of cases, hence the outcome of a clinical assessment is most likely to be NOT to issue meds).
Often what people need to do is: rest and take time off work. The failure to do this is likely to result in a prolonged infection - antibiotics are, on average based on most clinical cases, likely to be innefective in shortening the duration of symptoms.

It's like expecting your sprained ankle to get better with ABx "because you're too busy to rest it".

I'm not sure what the answer is really. I suppose OOH GPs and Walk in Centres need to tighten up their prescribing (they have no 'long term investment' in educating the patient population (as it generally takes a longer consultation to fully inform and explain reasons NOT to prescribe in the first instance, but then evidence suggests that people learn to self manage more appropriately, and present with these conditions less in the future)).

Anyway, heal well, rest up, keep up the fluids, and report back when you're feeling better!

DrP

If I drink orange juice I get sore throat and flu like symptoms. I used to think it was aircon that gave it to me but realised that I tended only to drink the stuff on planes or in hotels and presentations which was where I was subjected to ac. Fortunately its only oranges not lemons or limes. Although I do feel a bit ill if I drink too many caipirinhas, mojitos or margaritas.

You went on a spa weekend? Serves you right 🙂

Thanks DrP good advice.
Spa weekend not my choice...though I enjoyed it .

Been drinking from the furry cup per chance?

unovolo - Member
Been drinking from the furry cup per chance

It's funny you say that....